{"title":"Jacek Gutorow","description":"Jacek Gutorow is the author of six collections of poetry. His most recent work, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/jacek-gutorow\/products\/the-folding-star\" title=\"The Folding Star and Other Poems\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Folding Star and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, translated from the Polish by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/piotr-florczyk\" title=\"Piotr Florczyk\"\u003ePiotr Florczyk\u003c\/a\u003e, was published by BOA in 2012. His  collection, \u003cem\u003eInne tempo\u003c\/em\u003e (A Different Tempo), was nominated for the three most significant literary awards in Poland: the Nike Award, the Cogito Award, and the Gdynia Award. Gutorow is also an acclaimed literary critic and translator. He has published five collections of critical essays and won the 2004 Ludwik Fryde Award from the International Association of Literary Critics. He teaches American and British literature at the University of Opole.","products":[{"product_id":"the-folding-star","title":"The Folding Star and Other Poems","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Folding Star and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumphant collection of poetry that will help change our understanding of Polish poetry in the United States. The steady gaze, surgical precision, and syntactical richness of Gutorow’s poems speak to unhurried and lasting meditations, which, in their turn, beg to be revised time and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eNotebook Entry\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost everything\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es green and tea-colored here. Piles of leaves\u003cbr\u003e in the trees, switchbacks, trails of smoke snugly heaped up. \u003cbr\u003eTime and again road signs lose their heads and turn into sky signs \u003cbr\u003eor prickly stars defining the outlines \u003cbr\u003eof a misty auditorium. The air masses and isobars settle down. \u003cbr\u003eAnd the inside is littered with bolts and transmissions, pigments \u003cbr\u003eblended with precision to a few autumnal shades. \u003cbr\u003eThe driver turns into a local. We remain \u003cbr\u003euprooted, at peace with the accidental landscapes. \u003cbr\u003eThe most is viewed with a bird\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es-eye, off the map, \u003cbr\u003ejust as it\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es seen and occurs. What is next \u003cbr\u003elies uphill: the looming forties, their works and days \u003cbr\u003eand nothing beyond them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur youth flashed by on the left, \u003cbr\u003eladies and gentlemen. \u003cbr\u003eI\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003eve never been there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Folding Star and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What is a lyric poem but “one great abbreviation” of “The river is looking out for the other shore.\/Me.” It is with that sort of sly economy that Jacek Gutorow creates his speakers—and raises them up off the flat world of the white page and walks them over to the center of the stage where they stand and give utterance to our shared experiences: we talk, we think, we act, we travel—and we try, over and over again, to give voice to the impossible ineffable—that category that contains everything from the sad fact of wall shadows to the awful chaos of expectations. Jacek Gutorow’s poems are Stevensian in their propositions but inimitably his own. 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. And their wonderfully distilled new way of saying.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Mary Jo Bang\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-autospace: none;\"\u003e“There are dreams that are uncertain, wrapped in flux. And then dreams that are more precise and finely hewn than waking life: more mysterious for that, but part of reality, not its other--as sharp and painful as Bergman films. Jacek Gutorow\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es poems are like this, if far more compact: childhood orchard in a snow globe, recollection as super-realism. This is a remarkable collection of work, with an incomparably sustained emotional tonality: expansive because of its great compression, its moving contradiction. \u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eAt the end \/ a boy will flaunt the torch \/and set the whole world ablaze.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e But with poems: a coruscating and cold fire.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Joshua Clover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: May 15, 2012\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cstrong\u003e978-1-934414-88-0\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8420177541,"sku":"978-1-934414-88-0","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12467868336209,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/TheFoldingStarFINAL.jpg?v=1527683369"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/131.1315585486.jpeg?v=1449014701","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/jacek-gutorow.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}