My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice (Writer As Critic) - Softcover

Moure, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189712645X ISBN 13: 9781897126455

Publisher: NeWest Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book gathers essays by noted poet and translator Erin Moure, and records a quarter century of writing practice emerging from a city of exhilarating poetic and translatory possibility: Montreal. In her essays and linguistic-sculptural interventions on what poetry makes possible, Moure reveals why she has placed her bets on poetry as a way of life. In these works, the richness of poetry is laid bare as Moure challenges us to think more deeply about who we are as speakers, readers, writers, and citizens of the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Erin Moure is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Montreal. Since releasing her first book in 1979, she has published several award-winning English poetry collections and translated the poetry of acclaimed Quebec writer Nicole Brossard from French (with Robert Majzels), Chus Pato from Galician, Fernando Pessoa from Portuguese, and Andres Ajens from Spanish. Moure has published poetry and translations in over 150 journals and anthologies in several countries, and her poems have been translated into eight languages.

In 2008, Moure was awarded an honorary doctorate (D.Lit.) from Brandon University in recognition of her contributions to poetry. Her most recent collections are O Cadoiro (2007) and Little Theatres (2005). Her translation of Chus Pato's famed m-Tala was released simultaneously in Canada and the UK in spring 2009, and a book of collaborations with poet Oana Avasilichioaei, Expeditions of a Chimaera, was published in the fall of 2009. Moure's next solo book of poetry, O Resplandor, will be released in April 2010.

Review:

a In keeping with a Montaignian definition, Erin Mourea (TM)s My Beloved Wager offers us a feast of exciting essays, ranging from such provocative theoretical pieces as a The Anti-Anaesthetic, a to hilarious send-ups like a Poets and Management Gurus, a to trenchant analyses of Fernando Pessoa and of medieval Galician-Portuguese songbooks, and even a set of a concretea prose meditations. Throughout this dazzling collection, Moure displays an astonishing familiarity with French poststructuralist theorya "beautifully adapted to her purposesa "coupled with a highly original sense of the poeta (TM)s aesthetic and cultural role at this juncture of history.a a "Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature
a The pleasures of My Beloved Wager? Many. An outspoken, must-read book of generous, faceted essays about a writing, reading, and thinking practice. A brave, open-hearted book of literary plenitude and theoretical intelligence about the precisions of the somatic, about elations of translation, about transitioning nations, about the lope across borders, about sexualities and genders. Mourea (TM)s collection of essays and commentaries offers a responsive, penetrating, and alert justification for the arts of poetry and translation as radical practices of form, content, sound, ideologya "and being. ErA-n Moure, Canadian, also carries the passport of a dazzling country: the Democratic Network of Languages.a a "Rachel Blau DuPlessis, feminist literary critic and poet

"In keeping with a Montaignian definition, Erin Moure's My Beloved Wager offers us a feast of exciting essays, ranging from such provocative theoretical pieces as "The Anti-Anaesthetic," to hilarious send-ups like "Poets and Management Gurus," to trenchant analyses of Fernando Pessoa and of medieval Galician-Portuguese songbooks, and even a set of "concrete" prose meditations. Throughout this dazzling collection, Moure displays an astonishing familiarity with French poststructuralist theory--beautifully adapted to her purposes--coupled with a highly original sense of the poet's aesthetic and cultural role at this juncture of history." --Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature
"The pleasures of My Beloved Wager? Many. An outspoken, must-read book of generous, faceted essays about a writing, reading, and thinking practice. A brave, open-hearted book of literary plenitude and theoretical intelligence about the precisions of the somatic, about elations of translation, about transitioning nations, about the lope across borders, about sexualities and genders. Moure's collection of essays and commentaries offers a responsive, penetrating, and alert justification for the arts of poetry and translation as radical practices of form, content, sound, ideology--and being. Erin Moure, Canadian, also carries the passport of a dazzling country: the Democratic Network of Languages." --Rachel Blau DuPlessis, feminist literary critic and poet

"In keeping with a Montaignian definition, Erin Moure's My Beloved Wager offers us a feast of exciting essays, ranging from such provocative theoretical pieces as "The Anti-Anaesthetic," to hilarious send-ups like "Poets and Management Gurus," to trenchant analyses of Fernando Pessoa and of medieval Galician-Portuguese songbooks, and even a set of "concrete" prose meditations. Throughout this dazzling collection, Moure displays an astonishing familiarity with French poststructuralist theory--beautifully adapted to her purposes--coupled with a highly original sense of the poet's aesthetic and cultural role at this juncture of history." --Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature

"The pleasures of My Beloved Wager? Many. An outspoken, must-read book of generous, faceted essays about a writing, reading, and thinking practice. A brave, open-hearted book of literary plenitude and theoretical intelligence about the precisions of the somatic, about elations of translation, about transitioning nations, about the lope across borders, about sexualities and genders. Moure's collection of essays and commentaries offers a responsive, penetrating, and alert justification for the arts of poetry and translation as radical practices of form, content, sound, ideology--and being. Erin Moure, Canadian, also carries the passport of a dazzling country: the Democratic Network of Languages." --Rachel Blau DuPlessis, feminist literary critic and poet

About this edition

• Publisher: NeWest Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 189712645X
• ISBN 13: 9781897126455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Kamboureli Smaro