Charenton

In Chus Patos poems language is a cognitive-emotive artefact and this in every living sense of the word: explosive. Her language welcomes cognitions pathways and stylizes history literature myths of origin lineage friendship and the realities of nationalism in one huge breath. When her poems foreground elements of Galician culture and reality these turn out not to be private and enclosed but elements of our reality too. She explodes forms explodes the lyric and what lyric possibility is (races it onward in prose poems invents avatars that bear the place of the I: the she-author Horda Brenda ) engages myth as active in the present tense. In her various works Ashurbanipals library at Nineveh still exists cuneiform is readable Ophelia speaks Galician. In Charenton Pato presents the locale of Weiss Marat/Sade as a play of shadows light beauty and intensity that enacts Galician being and the agonies of its history and of a woman writer in whom this history is chiselled. Its language is lucid fervent beautiful: Chus Patos Charenton is not just Galicia it is Earth our earth too.