The Face of the Quartzes Jump the Clock ‘in your face’

‘in your face’

You realize

They are bricks hurled at empires

Sommigen behoren tot het kruim van de Nederlandstalige dichtersgilde

Between fragment and flow

The Face of the Quartzes Jump the Clock ‘in your face’Chus Pato, translation Ern Moure Translated by Ern Moure, The Face of the Quartzes (Un libre favor) is Chus Pato's twelfth book of poetry. In this poetry collection Pato creates a manual for living that is one with birds, with animals, with peaks and trains and lighthouses, and with women who undertake journeys toward life (the improper) and spring (renewal). Her poems acknowledge an unrequitable gift: that of poetry, the language of poetry, the