Planetary Noise

"Translations with real originals, ambient thoughts carved from air, design elements from art books, and slices of philosophy circulate in work created never to settle down, never to narrow to any one point."—Stephanie Burt, New York Times Book Review

"Across more than three decades Erín Moure's writing has stunned readers with its singular originality. Planetary Noise, with its through-line of cinematic 'takes' and joyful metabolic force, constructs an illuminating Selected of Moure's work that above all addresses the poem, its body and spirit, its heteronyms, idioms, and beats. In matchless diction of multiple languages, in startling dissonant yet concordant harmonies, this volume offers exemplary experience of how Moure's poetry invents audio and visual gestures that question the normative, the legible. With passion and tenderness, Moure frames and reframes context and text, the 'scratch, planet' sounds you hear, see, and feel. This poetry's emotional intelligence is all in the encounter. Superbly edited and with an introduction by Shannon Maguire."—Norma Cole, author of Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008

"Erín Moure is unafraid. Luminously intelligent, polylingual, often hilarious, sensually precise, and unfailingly generous, her poems are forms of life. She uses her entire being as an ear that continuously translates the material particularities of language to energetic vibration. In these pages the reader will resonate to the gauze of light and sound unrolling in irregular bursts, the lived history of female embodiment, the euphoric transformations of desire, an ethics of language as chosen empathy."—Lisa Robertson, Cinema of the Present

"Erín Moure is one of the most important Canadian poets in English today. Through her politically engaged exploration of language/subjectivity/nation she has made an essential contribution to contemporary North American poetry. This crucial, border-crossing, genre-bending, poly-vocal volume presents a wonderful sampling of her work, bringing it across the border, and making her substantial accomplishment available in a form that confirms both the variations and continuities of her oeuvre."—Lisa Sewell, author of Impossible Object

"Drawing on four decades of writing by Canadian poet and translator Moure (Kapusta), this rare volume reveals and celebrates the trajectory of her mind From her early lean lyrics though recent genre-defying poems located at the intersections of archive, performance, and translation, Moure's abiding inquiries into the limits of subjectivity and language continually push into new formal, musical, and intellectual territory."—Publishers Weekly

"Translations with real originals, ambient thoughts carved from air, design elements from art books, and slices of philosophy circulate in work created never to settle down, never to narrow to any one point."—Stephanie Burt, New York Times Book Review

"Openness, dissection, reconstruction, and the wringing out of language are key Moure's ongoing project of embracing the fallibility of language and, by extension, of poetry itself."—Klara du Plessis, Montreal Review of Books

"Across more than three decades Erín Moure's writing has stunned readers with its singular originality. Planetary Noise, with its through-line of cinematic 'takes' and joyful metabolic force, constructs an illuminating Selected of Moure's work that above all addresses the poem, its body and spirit, its heteronyms, idioms, and beats. In matchless diction of multiple languages, in startling dissonant yet concordant harmonies, this volume offers exemplary experience of how Moure's poetry invents audio and visual gestures that question the normative, the legible. With passion and tenderness, Moure frames and reframes context and text, the 'scratch, planet' sounds you hear, see, and feel. This poetry's emotional intelligence is all in the encounter. Superbly edited and with an introduction by Shannon Maguire." —Norma Cole, author of Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008

"Erín Moure is one of the most important Canadian poets in English today. Through her politically engaged exploration of language/subjectivity/nation she has made an essential contribution to contemporary North American poetry. This crucial, border-crossing, genre-bending, poly-vocal volume presents a wonderful sampling of her work, bringing it across the border, and making her substantial accomplishment available in a form that confirms both the variations and continuities of her oeuvre." —Lisa Sewell, author of Impossible Object

"Erín Moure is unafraid. Luminously intelligent, polylingual, often hilarious, sensually precise, and unfailingly generous, her poems are forms of life. She uses her entire being as an ear that continuously translates the material particularities of language to energetic vibration. In these pages the reader will resonate to the gauze of light and sound unrolling in irregular bursts, the lived history of female embodiment, the euphoric transformations of desire, an ethics of language as chosen empathy." —Lisa Robertson, Cinema of the Present