The elements / by Erin Moure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moure, Erín, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

v, 106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Elements (Namloz)

Place of Publication:

[Toronto, Ontario] : House of Anansi Press, 2019.

Summary:

"The Elements is a family book, a thinker's biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage, constructed on a double axis. 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Mouré, Erin, 1955- Elements./.

ISBN:

1487003722

9781487003722

9781487003739

1487003730

OCLC:

1049796533