Gemma Gorga

Gemma Gorga is a contemporary poet writing in Catalan, author of seven books of poetry, most recently Viatge al Centre (Voyage to the Center, Barcelona, 2018) and Mur (Wall, Barcelona, 2015), which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana for the best book of poetry published in Catalan for that year. Her collection of prose poems, Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, Barcelona 2006) won the Premi Miquel de Palol (2006). She teaches Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona.

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Zeno of Citium Reflects Aloud by Gemma Gorga – translated by Sharon Dolin

This entry was posted in Poetry Translation and tagged Gemma Gorga Sharon Dolin on November 14, 2018 by Emma Bolden

    I pass my hand over the wooden table to see if it has a fever; I still need to learn to recognize the silent sorrow of objects, the docile pose with which they catch the acid rain of hours. At which school do they teach the serene ache […]

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Little Fairy Tale by Gemma Gorga – translated by Sharon Dolin

This entry was posted in Poetry Translation and tagged Gemma Gorga Sharon Dolin on November 14, 2018 by Emma Bolden

    The bee came up to my lips to dictate the beginning of a poem found by chance among the sweet syllables of the orange blossom. It would have been easy to close my eyes and nod if it weren’t for the fact that no one had ever taught […]

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