Theophylline: A Poetic Migration Don't Let Me Be Lonely words can’t quite cover what

words can’t quite cover what these ‘infinite stunning’ poems do with their meanings

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Theophylline: A Poetic Migration Don't Let Me Be Lonely words can’t quite cover whatErn Moure 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 Grimk as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English? Moure listens to rhythms, punctuation, conditions of production and reception, and finds migration