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.