Ern Moure

O Cadoiro: Poems Ern Moure First Edition. edition

Rooted in medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas, most untranslated before now, Erin Mouré?s poems take off from the title phrase, literally “the place where falling is made.? Also a word for waterfall, O Cadoiro opens the “falling-place? that humans inhabit, where poems help heal without necessarily resolving anything. Where many poets tend to disdain the lyric form, Mouré embraces it — returning to its roots, reveling in its beauty, and exposing its surprising modernity.