Interviewing Chus Pato

March 02, 2019joana meirim

I think that without poetry our linguistic ability would be reduced to a mechanical speech, to the repetition of countersigns made to command us, to force us into obedience, countersigns that are the only possibility to build a world. The way I see it, poetry stands in opposition to this: it is the language that can disentangle itself from mechanical language and open up new worlds.