Voyage to the Center

Gemma Gorga, born in Barcelona in 1968, has published seven collections of poetry in Catalan. Her most recent collections are Mur, which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana, and Viatge al centre. Her other recent books include her essay on India, Indi Visible, and her book about reading and bookstores, Hi ha un país on la boira, as well as translations from English to Catalan of the Indian poets Dilip Chitre, Kamala Das, and Arun Kolatkar, and a cotranslation of selected poems by Edward Hirsch into Catalan. She is professor of Spanish literature at the University of Barcelona.

Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present and Manual for Living. She is also the author of the prose memoir Hitchcock Blonde and two previous books of translation from Catalan: Gemma Gorga’s Book of Minutes, which received grants from PEN America and Institut Ramon Llull, and Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems of Gemma Gorga, winner of the Saturnalia Books inaugural Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize and a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, AWP Donald Hall Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Witter Bynner Fellowship, Dolin is associate editor of Barrow Street Press and teaches poetry workshops in New York City.