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Theophylline
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- Book Synopsis
- What is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else? Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry's futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists-Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké-as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English? I looked for women who had made and were formed by migrations, and who were in some way marked 'qustionably' by the socius, and I examined what I could of the forms and shapes of their migrations-
- About The Author
- ER+N MOURE is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781487011604
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press, (21 September 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Weight
- 245 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 12 mm
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