Theophylline: A Poetic Migration Vrijetijdsgedichten measured lyric to Dickinson-inspired gnomic

measured lyric to Dickinson-inspired gnomic utterance

Willem van Toorn

long book that is the volume’s ultimate culmination

A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end

actueel en provocerend en gelukkig niet in een hokje te stoppen

Theophylline: A Poetic Migration Vrijetijdsgedichten measured lyric to Dickinson-inspired gnomicErn Moure Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry's futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimk as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English? Moure listens to rhythms, punctuation, conditions of production and reception, and finds migration