A Frame of the Book by Erin Mouré
Finalist for The A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry in 1999
In this brilliant new collection, Governor General’s Award-winning poet Erin Mour� tests the boundaries of tenderness, grace, speech, sexual feeling, and a book’s ability to frame or hold the person.
With her typical wit and textual play, Mour� breaks the codes of language to reveal the carnality and torsional power of words. Her lines and frames uncover shadow meanings, highlight syllables as marks, and expose the abrasion, erasure, gaps, and cries that infuse a wordliness in all acts, all human bearing.
These poems haunt and ache with questions. What is it to be a “person”? What forces contrive to form us? How can we be responsible toward another? The women Mour� creates are coalescences of grief and ardour, fear and hope; and through them she insists that self and other are entwined irrevocably.
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