Erín Moure Conversation
Poet, translator and essayist Erín Moure speaks with Charles Bernstein about her new book O Resplandor, translation and her use of heteronyms, as well as reading and writing in and out of identity. Erin Mouré, originally from Calgary, wrote her first collections of poetry in Vancouver, among them, Empire, York Street, Wanted Alive and Domestic Fuel. Since 1985, she has lived in Montreal, where she published Furious, WSWM, Sheepish Beauty, Civilian Love, Search Procedures, A Frame of the Book, Pillage Laud and a great many other poetry and essay collections and translations (25 minutes).
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Conversations and readings with poets and artists, produced in cooperation with PennSound and hosted by Charles Bernstein, the American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. He is a foundational member and leading practitioner of Language poetry. Bernstein was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy with Stanley Cavell and wrote his final thesis on Gertrude Stein and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
In the mid-1970s Bernstein became active in the experimental poetry scenes in New York and San Francisco, not only as a poet, but also as an editor, publisher, and theorist. With visual artist and wife Susan Bee, Bernstein published several now well-known poets whose work is associated with Language writing.
more In the mid-1970s Bernstein became active in the experimental poetry scenes in New York and San Francisco, not only as a poet, but also as an editor, publisher, and theorist. With visual artist and wife Susan Bee, Bernstein published several now well-known poets whose work is associated with Language writing.
