CHUS PATO is a central figure in contemporary poetry and one of the most iconoclastic figures in Galician and European literature. Her sixth book, m-Talá, broke the poetic mould in 2000. Hordes of Writing, the third text in her projected pentology, Method, received the 2008 Spanish Critics' Prize for Galician Poetry, and the Losada Diéguez Literary Prize in 2009. Pato continues to refashion the way we think of the possibilities of poetic text, of words, bodies, political and literary space, and of the construction of ourselves as individual, community, nation, world. Secession is Pato's ninth book and her fourth to be translated into English.
ERÍN MOURE is a Montréal poet and translator curious about what's active in the poetry of others. Moure's most recent books are Kapusta and Insecession, a biotranspoetics published in one volume with her translation from Galician of Chus Pato's biopoetics, Secession. Other recent translations include White Piano by Nicole Brossard, translated with Robert Majzels from the French, and Galician Songs by Rosalía de Castro, translated from the Galician.
