| Secession/Insecession Contributor(s): Moure, Erín (Author), Pato, Chus (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771660341 ISBN-13: 9781771660341 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Er 1/2n Moure - joins Moure's Canadian translational biopoetics, Insecession. To Pato, the poem is an insurrection against normalized language; to Moure, translation itself disrupts and reforms poetics and the possibility of the poem. In solidarity with Pato, Moure echoes Barthes: A readerly text is something I cannot re-produce (today I cannot write like Atwood); a writerly text is one I can read only if I utterly transform my reading regime. I now recognize a third text alongside the readerly and the writerly: let's call it the untranslatable. In Secession / Insecession, a major European poet and a known Canadian poet, born on opposite sides of the Atlantic in the mid twentieth century and with vastly different experiences of political life, forge a 21st century relationship of thinking and creation. The result is a major work of memoir, poetics, trans-ethics and history. Chus Pato's Secession was chosen 2009 Book of the Year by the Revista das Letras, literary supplement of Galicia Hoxe (Galicia Today). |