{"product_id":"book-of-minutes","title":"Book of Minutes","description":"Imagine a book of hours condensed into a book of minutes: that is the project of the compact lyrical prose poems found in Gemma Gorga’s \u003ci\u003eBook of Minutes\u003c\/i\u003e, the first English-language translation of this emerging poet, widely known and loved in her native Catalonia yet little known outside it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poems in \u003ci\u003eBook of Minutes\u003c\/i\u003e move seamlessly from philosophical speculation to aphorism, condensed narrative, brief love letter, and prayer, finding the metaphysical in even the most mundane. In the space of one or two paragraphs, they ponder God, love, language, existence, and beginnings and endings both large and small. In her openness to explore these and many other subjects, Gorga’s leitmotif might well be “light.” Carrying with them echoes of Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hans Christian Andersen, Francis Ponge, George Herbert, and Emily Dickinson, the poems in\u003ci\u003e Book of Minutes\u003c\/i\u003e are nonetheless firmly in the twenty-first century, moving in a single breath from the soul to diopters or benzodiazepine.\u003cbr\u003e In deft, idiomatic translation from Sharon Dolin, \u003ci\u003eBook of Minutes\u003c\/i\u003e also retains the original Catalan texts on facing pages.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Oberlin College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219661803864,"sku":"9780997335552","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780997335552.jpg?v=1771309836","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/book-of-minutes","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}