Description
The new collection from Governor General's Literary Award-winning poet and translator Erin 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."
REVIEW COPIES:
- Publishers Weekly
- Booklist
- Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
ERIN 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 Tiohtia:ke/Montreal.
Reviews
Moure's wit and her eye for the beautiful infuse the poems . . . The collection is intensely rewarding, tender, and human as it attempts to name the unnameable, to bear the unbearable. -- Lynn Thomson * Canadian Notes & Queries *
A formally exciting work. -- Emily Urquhart * Montreal Review of Books *
Book Information
ISBN 9781487003722
Author Ern Moure
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Weight(grams) 199g
Dimensions(mm) 207mm * 139mm * 15mm
