O Cadoiro: Poems

Rooted in medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas, most untranslated before now, Erin Mouré’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, Mouré embraces it returning to its roots, reveling in its beauty, and exposing its surprising modernity.