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PLANETARY NOISE
WESLEYAN POETRY
PLANETARY NOISE
Selected Poetry of Erín Moure
EDITED BY SHANNON MAGUIRE Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown CT 06459
© 2017 Erín Moure
Introduction © 2017 Shannon Maguire
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Moure, Erín, 1955– author. | Maguire, Shannon, editor.
Title: Planetary noise / selected poetry of Erín Moure ; edited by Shannon Maguire.
Description: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017] |
Series: Wesleyan poetry
Identifiers: LCCN 2016038491 (print) | LCCN 2016044220 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819576941 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780819576958 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780819576965 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PR9199.3.M67 A6 2017 (print) | LCC PR9199.3.M67 (ebook) |
DDC 811/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016038491
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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
“Cover illustration: Before After 2”, Clive Holden (original photo by Juro Kovacik), courtesy Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.”
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Contents
ERÍN MOURE: POETRY AS PLANETARY NOISE introduction by Shannon Maguire ix
february: turn towards spring 3
translation # 1 5
photosynthesis 6
Wanted Alive (1983)
Bird 7
Subliminal Code 8
Domestic Fuel (1985)
Philosophy of Language 10
Jump over the Gate 11
Lunge 13
Furious (1988)
Snow Door 15
A History of Vietnam … 17
Pure Writing Is a Notion beyond the Pen 18
Unfurled & Dressy 20
from The Acts 21
CIVIC SIGNALS (A Noise Cycle) 27
The Jewel 30
The Beauty of Furs 35
The Beauty of Furs: A Site Glossary 36
Seebe 37
Excess 41
Sheepish Beauty, Civilian Love (1992)
Song of a Murmur 47
NOISE RISES (Citizen Trilogy + Pillage Laud) 51
from Search Procedures, or Lake This 53
The Notification of Birches 58
A Frame of The Book / The Frame of A Book (1999)
The Splendour 63
from Calor 66
O Cidadán (2002)
Georgette 70
document15 (differential plane) 71
document22 (wound throat) 72
document32 (inviolable) 73
Thirteenth Catalogue of the Maternity of Harms 74
Georgette 75
document37 (no tempo das fronteiras) 76
sovereign body39 (vis-à-vis) 77
document40 (vocais abertas) 78
Sixteenth Catalogue of the Sorbas of Harms 79
3.38% 80
document46 (cara negra) 81
Hazard Non <bis> 82
Pillage Laud (1999, 2011)
from Pillage8 (“Rachel-Julien”) “What had so meaningless a book sheltered?” 83
from Pillage9 (“Burnside”) “The differing ward is my beginning.” 84
from To Exist “When to exist is reading” 85