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Gemma Gorga’s Followers (11)
Gemma Gorga
Born
in Barcelona, Spain
June 10, 1968
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Book of Minutes
by
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published
2006
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3 editions
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Hi ha un país on la boira
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Viatge al centre
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O Anjo da Chuva
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Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems of Gemma Gorga
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Indi Visible
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Mur
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published
2015
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El desordre de les mans
by
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published
2003
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El mundo a través del libro
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Semantics and Nutrition
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“Up until a certain afternoon, at closing time, the librarian may come and return me to the shelf where I belong, the precise place where someone grabbed me one fine day, who knows why, perhaps to learn to translate sadness into another language, perhaps to love me as a beloved book—that is, forever. No, not forever. — Gemma Gorga, from poem “31,” Book of Minutes, transl. Sharon Dolin (Oberlin College Press, 2019)”
― Book of Minutes
― Book of Minutes
“I ponder it now, while holding this new book in my hands, the words still slick like the feathers of a newly hatched bird."
—Gemma Gorga”
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—Gemma Gorga”
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“Pomegranate"
I pry out the seeds with my fingers and all
my memories spill onto the frosty marble
counter. Little, lit up like ruby-red carnival lights,
rough as the cat tongue of Time
inviting us to sit at the table to gobble us up
in a mouthful. The pomegranate returns
late autumn, ready to ruin us, on whichever night
we are in the kitchen, distracted by dinner: very lightly
it stains our fingers that pensive, murky color,
the color hours take on that won’t
clot—the open color of memory.”
―
I pry out the seeds with my fingers and all
my memories spill onto the frosty marble
counter. Little, lit up like ruby-red carnival lights,
rough as the cat tongue of Time
inviting us to sit at the table to gobble us up
in a mouthful. The pomegranate returns
late autumn, ready to ruin us, on whichever night
we are in the kitchen, distracted by dinner: very lightly
it stains our fingers that pensive, murky color,
the color hours take on that won’t
clot—the open color of memory.”
―
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