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O Cadoiro

by (author) Erin Moure

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Apr 2007
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887847578
    Publish Date
    Apr 2007
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780887849237
    Publish Date
    Aug 2011
    List Price
    $16.95

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About the author

A central figure in contemporary poetry and one of the most iconoclastic figures in Galician and European literature, Chus Pato's sixth book, m-Tala, broke the poetic mould in 2000. Hordes of Writing, the third text in her projected pentology Method, received the 2008 Spanish Critics' Prize for Galician Poetry, and the Losada Di?guez literary prize in 2009. Pato continues to refashion the way we think of the possibilities of poetic text, of words, bodies, political and literary space, and of the construction of ourselves as individual, community, nation, world. She brings us face to face with the traumas and migrations of Europe, with writing itself, and the possibility (or not) of poetry accounting for our animal selves. Secession is Pato's ninth book and her fourth to be translated into English.

Montreal poet Erín Moure has published seventeen books of poetry in English and Galician/English, and thirteen volumes of poetry translated from French, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese into English, by poets such as Andr's Ajens, Nicole Brossard, Rosala de Castro, Louise Dupr?, and Fernando Pessoa. Her work has received the Governor General's Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the A.M. Klein Prize, and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize. Moure is currently revising the bilingual French/English impossible play Kapusta, a sequel to The Unmemntioable, for publication in 2015, and is translating Chus Pato's Carne de Leviatan into English as Flesh of Leviathan, to appear in 2016. She is also working on a new book of poems called The Elements, and on a translation of Wilson Bueno's Mar Paraguayo.

Erin Moure's profile page

Awards

  • Short-listed, Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards
  • Short-listed, A.M. Klein Poetry Prize

Editorial Reviews

[Erin Moure is] one of the most critically lauded and successful Canadian 'language' poets...O Cadoiro contains enough intellectual intrigue - and, at times, charm - to have inspired this reviewer to read, and reread, and reread yet again.

matrix

Ever wise, ever playful, Erin Moure keeps shifting the ground beneath us in this soaring, multilingual work.

A.M. Klein Award Jury Citation

O Cadoiro is a big-hearted experiment, a gift offered to those willing to open their hearts to its confused and confusing twists and turns.

Edmonton Journal

O Cadoiro is a study of how to write experimental poetry and...how to do it exceptionally well...

Scene Magazine

The publication of a new collection by Moure is always a cause for celebration...O Cadoiro explores the curves and angles of lyrical experimentation.

Globe and Mail