The Folding Star

Name: The Folding Star
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and Other Poems

By: Jacek Gutorow, Piotr Florczyk (Translator)

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Paperback | 15 May 2012

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86 Pages

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22.8 x 15.2 x 0.53

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"His poems are meditative and beautiful, his diction fragile and clear...In short, it is a lovely book, and BOA Editions has provided us with a fine candidate for torchbearer."--Hey Small Press!

"We are fortunate to now have them in English so that we who don't read Polish can now read these, and enjoy their insight and wry wit."Mary Jo Bang

"[Gutorow] has clearly mastered the ability to make metaphor seem distinct."-Kaitlin Dyer, The West Coast Translation Review

In his triumphant collection The Folding Star and Other Poems, poet of the imagination Jacek Gutorow offers thirty-one gems that that will help change our understanding of Polish poetry.

Jacek Gutorow has been nominated for the Nike Award, the Cogito Award, and the Gdynia Award. He teaches at the University of Opole.

Piotr Florczyk has taught at the University of Delaware, Antioch University Los Angeles, and University of California-Riverside. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Industry Reviews

"Gutorow is a lyrical poet who ponders the edges of what cannot be known...He writes of the inevitable with a tenderness that says that there are fewer threats to our lives if we will just listen and see."-The Washington Independent Review of Books

"There is something paradoxical about the effects created by poetry in translation. The poets who are deeply immersed in their native language, who are capable of articulating complex meanings connected with innumerable modulations of colloquial speech, and who manage to sound out the unique frequencies of their languages by experimenting with etymology or phraseology, are usually poorly served by translators whose technical abilities may be splendid but who cannot write with the nerve of common speech." -Stride Magazine

"[T]he ability of poetry to deal with nearly any topic and to especially tell little stories encapsulated in a few lines has long been a tradition of the Poles and an area of literature where they've displayed exceptional expertise. Gutorow has placed himself strongly within this tradition but in the most contemporary sense." -Gently Read Literature

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