Theophylline

A Poetic Migration via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo)

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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 bymigrations, 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—

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-21
Mått152 x 228 x 12 mm
Vikt244 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagHouse of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
ISBN9781487011604

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ERÍN 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.ELISA SAMPEDRÍN is undependable. Her presence, like that of the shoe, worries the book.