Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Softcover

Moure, Erín

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819576956 ISBN 13: 9780819576958

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure gathers four decades of poetry from a celebrated Canadian poet and translator who has persistently reconfigured the linguistic and material relations of English. Moure's poems and networked sequences are hybrid and often polylingual; they work with contradiction, paradox, and verbal detritus― linguistic hics and blips often too quickly dismissed as noise―to create new conditions for thought and pleasure. From postdramatic theatre to queer and feminist theory, from the politics of citizenship and genocide to the minutiae of digital poetics, from the clamor of love to the shadows of grief and memory, Moure has joyously toppled hierarchies of meaning and parasited dominant discourses to create poetry that crosses borders, embracing hope, not war. This volume, edited by poet and literary scholar Shannon Maguire, also features an extensive introduction to Moure's poetry, a section of poetry by others translated by Moure, and an afterword on translation by the poet. An online reader's companion is available at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions.

Hardcover is un-jacketed.

About this title

About the Author:

ERÍN MOURE is a Canadian poet and translator of poetry. Three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize, and winner of the Governor General's Award for poetry, her 18 books include the poetry of Furious, O Cidadán, Little Theatres, O Resplandor, The Unmemntioable, and Kapusta, and the essays of My Beloved Wager. She has translated or cotranslated 16 books of poetry, and holds two honorary doctorates, from Brandon University (Canada) and the University of Vigo (Spain). She first crossed the Canada-US border from Alberta in 1964 to eat a July 4th hot dog at a community picnic in Great Falls, Montana, and has been border crossing ever since. Moure lives in Montreal. SHANNON MAGUIRE is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. The author of two collections of poetry, fur(l) parachute and Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina, she has been a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and the bpNichol Chapbook Award.

Review:

"Across more than three decades Erín Moure's writing has stunned readers with its singular originality. Planetary Noise, with its through-line of cinematic 'takes' and joyful metabolic force, constructs an illuminating Selected of Moure's work that above all addresses the poem, its body and spirit, its heteronyms, idioms, and beats. In matchless diction of multiple languages, in startling dissonant yet concordant harmonies, this volume offers exemplary experience of how Moure's poetry invents audio and visual gestures that question the normative, the legible. With passion and tenderness, Moure frames and reframes context and text, the 'scratch, planet' sounds you hear, see, and feel. This poetry's emotional intelligence is all in the encounter. Superbly edited and with an introduction by Shannon Maguire." ―Norma Cole, author of Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008

"Erín Moure is one of the most important Canadian poets in English today. Through her politically engaged exploration of language/subjectivity/nation she has made an essential contribution to contemporary North American poetry. This crucial, border-crossing, genre-bending, poly-vocal volume presents a wonderful sampling of her work, bringing it across the border, and making her substantial accomplishment available in a form that confirms both the variations and continuities of her oeuvre." ―Lisa Sewell, author of Impossible Object

"Erín Moure is unafraid. Luminously intelligent, polylingual, often hilarious, sensually precise, and unfailingly generous, her poems are forms of life. She uses her entire being as an ear that continuously translates the material particularities of language to energetic vibration. In these pages the reader will resonate to the gauze of light and sound unrolling in irregular bursts, the lived history of female embodiment, the euphoric transformations of desire, an ethics of language as chosen empathy." ―Lisa Robertson, Cinema of the Present

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0819576956
• ISBN 13: 9780819576958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Maguire Shannon