Search Procedures

by Erín Moure

Erin Moure traces a woman's poetic trajectory through the instability of any search and any procedure. Everything touched upon is called into question as Moure explores the limits of our notions of language, and plays with the power of words to convey meaning or intelligibility, as well as their fallibility.

Genres: Poetry

152 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Erín Moure is a transborder poet and translator of poetry and poetics. In Canada, the USA, and the UK (variously), she has published seventeen books of poetry, and several books of prose including a memoir and a book of short takes on translation. Her most recent book is Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure (ed. Shannon Maguire, Wesleyan 2017). She is the translator or co-translator of seventeen books of poetry and three books of non-fiction (biopoetics) from French, Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese into English. Her translation of Wilson Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea (Nightboat, 2017) was a finalist for a 2018 Best Translated Book Award. She holds two honorary doctorates for her contributions to poetry and translation, from Brandon University in Canada and the Universidade de Vigo in Spain. She lives in Montreal.

Reviews

[Abby · Rating 4 out of 5]

As much as Moure´ sometimes makes my brain hurt, I am grateful for the spirit of experimentation, aspiration, and humor in her work. While the search for meaning central to this book seems frustrated and sometimes even futile, I believe she maintains a faith in the power and importance of language that some postmodern lyric poets seem to have lost.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Acquired Oct 19, 2002
City Lights Book Shop, London, Ontario