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