Theophylline: A Poetic Migration Via the Modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (de Castro, Vallejo)

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 Grimk?–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–

Author: Erín Moure, Elisa Sampedrín
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 08/08/2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781487011604
Language: English