What is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else?


Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké—as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English?


I looked for women who had made and were formed by

migrations, and who were in some way marked ‘qustionably’

by the socius, and I examined what I could of the forms and

shapes of their migrations—