Inhabitation: Erín Moure: “all of which is invented has just been invented now”

Abstract

This essay uses techniques associated with plagiarism and copyright violation to produce a collaborative model of scholarship, modifying the poetry and poetics of Erín Moure via methods of cut-up / remix / montage. The resulting essay: 1) speaks about Moure’s poetics; 2) speaks through Moure’s own language and syntax; and 3) produces a metanarrative of reading, writing, and recombination. The essay explores new possibilities for poetry and poetics; in the words of Moure: “the reader has to undergo the turmoil too, not just read a report about it.”