Rooted in medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas, most untranslated before now, Erin Moure'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, Moure embraces it returning to its roots, reveling in its beauty, and exposing its surprising modernity.
- ISBN10 0887849237
- ISBN13 9780887849237
- Publish Date 3 September 2011 (first published 17 May 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint House of Anansi Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 96
- Language English