Chus Pato - Böcker

Acclaimed Galician poet gave this talk on poetry and the poem as her inaugural speech on being invested as a member of the Royal Galician Academy in September 2017. It is a seminal text on the nature of poetry and being. The translation is by Ern ...

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In Flesh of Leviathan, Chus Pato alters her cadence to record, in sombre lyric form, the direct address of a singular voice that seems to emerge from time itself. In these poems, worldly things are largely absent and those present are iconic: bird...

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Secession / Insecession is a homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato's Galician biopoetics of poet and nation, Secession - translated by Ern Moure - joins Moure's Canadian translational biopoetics,...

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In 2000 in Galicia, in a maelstrom of rupture from her previous poetics, well-known poet Chus Pato gave readers a startling new book that instantly demarcated the literary landscape. This book was a reverberative crescendo, a roar and clamour of g...

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There was death and death entered love; writing mutated. Even so, when the poem writes itself, it is loyal only to its own wound; this is its law of gravity. Hordes of Writing, the third book in a projected pentology, "Method", is an ess...

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In Chus Pato's poems, language is a cognitive-emotive artefact, and this in every living sense of the word: explosive. Her language welcomes cognition's pathways, and stylizes history, literature, myths of origin, lineage, friendship, an...

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Zweisprachige AnthologieGalicisch ist die Sprache von Troubadouren und Dichterkönigen wie Alfons X. und Dom Diniz, die Sprache Rosalía de Castros, eine durch die Jahrhunderte von Bauern und Seeleuten sowie heute von gebildeten Stadtbewohnern nobil...

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