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Andrés Ajens was born in Concepción, Chile in 1961. He has published several books of poetry, essays, and translations, among them El entrevero (Cuarto Propio/Plural, Santiago de Chile/La Paz, Bolivia), No insista, carajo (Intemperie, Santiago, 2004), Más íntimas mistura (Intemperie, 1998), Alberto Caeiro: Poemas inconjuntos y otros poemas (from Portuguese; Dolmen, Santiago, 1996), La última carta de Rimbaud (essay-fiction, Intemperie, 1996). He co-edits the journal Mar con Soroche (Santiago/La Paz); and has worked to set up Lenguandina (www.lenguandina.org) with Aymara translator and linguist Zacarías Alavi Mamani. He lives in Santiago, Chile.

Born in Ourense, Galicia, in 1955, Chus Pato is Galicia's leading contemporary poet and one of the most singular and acclaimed voices in Spanish poetry. Charenton (tr. by Erín Moure, UK: Shearsman Books, Canada: BuschekBooks, 2007) is her eighth book. She teaches history and geography in a college in the interior of Galicia and her work has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, Polish, Serbian and Portuguese, as well as English.

Erín Moure is a Montréal poet and translator. Her most recent book, O Cadoiro (Anansi, 2007) was a finalist in the poetry category for both the AM Klein Award and the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award. Little Theatres (Anansi, 2005) won the AJM Klein prize and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. A selection from her translation of Galician poet Chus Pato's m-Talá appeared as a chapbook with Nomados, Vancouver, 2002, and her translation of Pato’s Charenton appeared with Shearsman Books, U.K. and BuschekBooks, Canada in 2007. A reissue of her UK chapbook from the work of Chilean poet Andrés Ajens, Quasi Flanders, Quasi Extramadura, was published by Left Hand Books, Victoria in 2008. Moure has also translated, with Robert Majzels, Nicole Brossard's Installations and Museum of Bone and Water, and has translated work by the great Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa.

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