Book of Minutes by Gemma Gorga and translated by Sharon Dolin

This is poetry from Spain.

Book of Minutes by Gemma Gorga translated by Sharon Dolin is published by University of Chicago Press. This is a Book originally written in Catalan. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780997335552E12.

Book of Minutes, by Gemma Gorga, is a Catalan poetry collection from Spain, translated by Sharon Dolin, published by University of Chicago Press in 2019. It is a Catalan collection that gives small units of time devotional pressure, turning the minute into a chamber of attention. The useful first posture is patience, not mastery. A poem can move before it explains itself, and this book seems best met through image, rhythm, and the emotional pressure of its address. For a translated poetry shelf, that kind of encounter is the whole point: another language making a new shape inside English. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.

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