Sharon Dolin is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Manual for Living (2016) and Whirlwind (2012) both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. The poem “Embryo” is taken from Dolin’s book-length translation-in-progress, Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems of Gemma Gorga. Her translation from Catalan of Gemma Gorga’s Book of Minutes is forthcoming from the Field Translation Series (Oberlin University Press) in 2019. The recipient of a 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, she directs and teaches in Writing About Art in Barcelona each June. http://www.sharondolin.com/barcelona-workshops/
