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Voyage to the Center: Poems
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A Dual-language Collection of Minimalist Poems that Shimmer with Presence
The poems in Voyage to the Center, by the contemporary Catalan poet Gemma Gorga and lucidly translated by the American poet Sharon Dolin, are extreme acts of compression, which explore the ways a poem may use very few words to convey meaning. Gorga understands both the power and the limits of language; these poems occupy the liminal space between speech and silence. In this her most minimalist style, Gorga's spare, lim...
The poems in Voyage to the Center, by the contemporary Catalan poet Gemma Gorga and lucidly translated by the American poet Sharon Dolin, are extreme acts of compression, which explore the ways a poem may use very few words to convey meaning. Gorga understands both the power and the limits of language; these poems occupy the liminal space between speech and silence. In this her most minimalist style, Gorga's spare, lim...