Erín Moure
Erín Moure is a poet and translator of poetry. In Canada, the USA, and the UK, she has published eighteen books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of short articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs, and she is translator or co-translator of nineteen books of poetry and two of creative non-fiction (biopoetics) from French, Galician, Portunhol, Portuguese and Spanish. A forty-year retrospective of her poetry, Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure,appeared in 2017 from Wesleyan University Press. Her latest book is The Elements. Un Libre Favor is her sixth translation from the work of Galician poet Chus Pato. More at erinmoure.mystrikingly.com.
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Three Poems
Chus Pato
‘you alone sit down at that table / facing the houses you tried to inhabit’
Translated from the Galician by Erín Moure.