Planetary Noise

Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure gathers four decades of poetry from a celebrated Canadian poet and translator who has persistently reconfigured the linguistic and material relations of English. Moure's poems and networked sequences are hybrid and often polylingual; they work with contradiction, paradox, and verbal detritus- linguistic hics and blips often too quickly dismissed as noise-to create new conditions for thought and pleasure. From postdramatic theatre to queer and feminist theory, from the politics of citizenship and genocide to the minutiae of digital poetics, from the clamor of love to the shadows of grief and memory, Moure has joyously toppled hierarchies of meaning and parasited dominant discourses to create poetry that crosses borders, embracing hope, not war. This volume, edited by poet and literary scholar Shannon Maguire, also features an extensive introduction to Moure's poetry, a section of poetry by others translated by Moure, and an afterword on translation by the poet. An online reader's companion is available at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions.

POETRY AS PLANETARY NOISE, introduction by Shannon MaguireEARLY SIGNALS-First CycleEmpire, York Street (1979)february: turn towards springtranslation # 1photosynthesisWanted Alive (1983)BirdSubliminal CodeDomestic Fuel (1985)Philosophy of LanguageJump over the GateLungeFurious (1988)Snow DoorA History of Vietnam...Pure Writing Is a Notion Beyond the PenUnfurled & Dressyfrom The ActsCIVIC SIGNALS-A Noise CycleWSW (West South West) (1989)Hello to a DogThe JewelThe Beauty of FursThe Beauty of Furs: A Site GlossarySeebeExcessSheepish Beauty, Civilian Love (1992)Song of a MurmurNOISE RISES-Citizen Trilogy + Pillage LaudSearch Procedures (1996)from Search Procedures, or Lake ThisThe Notification of BirchesA Frame of The Book / The Frame of A Book (1999)The Splendourfrom CalorO Cidadán (2002)Georgettedocument15 (differential plane)document22 (wound throat)document32 (inviolable)Thirteenth Catalogue of the Maternity of HarmsGeorgettedocument37 (no tempo das fronteiras)sovereign body39 (vis-à-vis)document40 (vocais abertas)Sixteenth Catalogue of the Sorbas of Harms3.38%document46 (cara negra)Hazard NonPillage Laud (1999, 2011)from Pillage8 ("Rachel-Julien") What had so meaningless a book sheltered?from Pillage9 ("Burnside") "The differing ward is my beginning"from To Exist "When to exist is reading"ATURUXOS CALADOS-Galician CycleLittle Theatres (2005)from Eight Little Theatres of the Cornices, by Elisa Sampedrín"Theatre needs hope" quote from Elisa Sampedrínfrom The First Story of Latinfrom Late Snow of May-poemas de augaO Cadoiro (2007)"I ll never master the art of poetry. I""The world s not a home I can swear allegiance to""Mother, keep me from going to San Seruando, because""If I see the ocean, it flows""I m not pleading any thread of love""That day I lost your ring"devenue le sujet spectral : L¿YRIC POETR'Y- "I m going to walk to the mountain. As if"RESONANT IMPOSTERS: Expeditions of a Chimæra (2009)Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure from "Airways"AN ABSOLUTE CLAMOROUS DIN-Ukrainian CycleO Resplandor (2010)EvocationSplay with a Stonefrom Crónica OneDoubled Elegy, Ethical "break simply with grief's cane"The Unmemntioable (2012)"Doors screen wet..."Heroides"The Photographer of emigrants.""What is that Erín Moure writing...""In her spires of ink...""It occurs to me that I must write E.M.'s poems..."Ars AmatoriConsolatio ad L'vivium"Experience appears in this world..."Kapusta (2015)from Act 2, Scenes 2 and 3 "Something is trying to crawl..."Surgery LessñnPOLYRESONANCES-Transborder Noisefrom Insecession (an echolation of Chus Pato's Secession, 2014)The House Which Is Not Extension but Dispositio ItselfWorks of Other Poets in Moure TranslationChus Pato (Galicia), "Like many of her compatriots"Andrés Ajens (Chile), "so lair storm, inti myi semblable."Wilson Bueno (Brazil), "one dusk après une autre"Nicole Brossard (Québec), "Suggestions Heavy-Hearted"Emma Villazón (Bolivia), "Wavering Before The Water"Chus Pato (Galicia), from "While I'm Writing"Rosalía de Castro (Galicia), "Today or tomorrow..." Fernando Pessoa (Portugal), "XI Some Woman Out There Has a Piano"EMIT, postface by Erín MoureACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND CREDITSTranslationsCollaborative WorksBIBLIOGRAPHYWorks CitedFurther Reading