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

By Erín Moure and Elisa Sampedrín

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--

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487011601
• ISBN13: 9781487011604
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"