Bøger af Ern Moure

In Kapusta, Moure performs this silence on the page and aloud, writing “gesture” and “voice” to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, memory, sorrow, and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book “beyond the book,” in a space of performance that starts and stops time.In Little Theatres, Erín Moure’s avatar Elisa Sampedrín first spoke about theatre and the need for smallness in order to articulate what is huge. Sampedrín, who reappears in the translation mystery O Resplandor as the translator of a language she does not speak, vanishes later in The Unmemntioable when the split in human identity that results from war and displacement is acknowledged. Now, in Kapusta, the character E. is alone, in the smallest of spaces — the bench behind her grandmother’s woodstove in Alberta. Here, E. struggles to face the largest of historical and imagined spaces — the Holocaust in Western Ukraine, and to understand her mother’s silence at the sadness of her forebears, her “salt-shaker love.”

Reissued for the first time in a handsome A List edition, the Governor General¿s Literary Award¿winning collection from one of Canadäs most profoundly inventive and eminent poets, featuring an introduction by award-winning poet Sonnet L¿Abbé.The poetry in the Governor General¿s Award¿winning collection Furious is charged with Erin Moure¿s characteristic energy and wit as she explores the limits of pure reason and the language of power. There is, too, a fresh and often celebratory look at love, and, in an unusual finale, ¿The Acts,¿ Moure challenges us to explore a feminist aesthetic: of thinking, of the page, of working life and the possibility of poetry.

The new collection from Governor General's Literary Award-winning poet and translator Erín Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. The Elements is a family book, a thinker's biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure's late father - accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking "world" and "self" in a struggle against invasive powers - are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon. It is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destructions. By celebrating our ability to think and to revolt, it defends the human pull toward happiness and sovereignty, toward life, toward living. "The infinitely transmissible," it says, "demands this polyvalent body."