{"title":"Piotr Florczyk","description":"\u003cp\u003ePiotr Florczyk is a poet and translator. With \u003cem\u003eBeen and Gone\u003c\/em\u003e (Marick Press, 2009), he introduced the English-speaking audience to Julian Kornhauser (1946-), one of the foremost Polish poets of the Generation of '68. He is also the translator of a collection of poems by Anna Swir (1909-84), \u003cem\u003eBuilding the Barricade and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Calypso Editions, 2011). With BOA Editions, Piotr Florczyk has published \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/translations\/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 by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/jacek-gutorow\" title=\"Jacek Gutorow\"\u003eJacek Guterow\u003c\/a\u003e (2012), and most recently, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/translations\/products\/the-world-shared\" title=\"The World Shared\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe World Shared\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/dariusz-sosnicki\" title=\"Darius Sosnicki\"\u003eDariusz So\u003cspan\u003eś\u003c\/span\u003enicki\u003c\/a\u003e (2014). He holds an MFA from San Diego State University, and has taught at the University of Delaware, San Diego State University, Antioch University Los Angeles, and at University of California-Riverside. Piotr Florczyk lives in Los Angeles, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","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"},{"product_id":"the-world-shared","title":"The World Shared","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThree Rooks\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(the head and two linesmen)\u003cbr\u003e took over the top of the unfinished\u003cbr\u003e building and said:\u003cbr\u003e the plastic falls in sheets\u003cbr\u003e from the back of that animal at the bottom,\u003cbr\u003e the wind tosses them like the ears of a spaniel on the run\u003cbr\u003e and we see the ribs;\u003cbr\u003e let the world not play dumb!\u003cbr\u003e Everyone has a skeleton inside him,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand the snow is a clot,\u003cbr\u003e not powdered sugar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe World Shared\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Reading Dariusz Sośnicki’s poems, Americans may recognize John Ashbery’s quick jump-cuts and the moral seriousness of Jorie Graham, mixed with the quirky anger and humor of, perhaps, Bill Knott, but the results sound totally fresh …This poetry harbors venomous sarcasm, even cynicism, but it works, like a sand blaster on old paint, in the service of new beauty, as though the self, roiling in history, purging its dark energies, could at last speak the truth.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Craig Morgan Teicher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“What is truly wonderful… is that these poems nonetheless steadily engage us with their surprises, their quickness, their mysteries, and, often, captivate us with their invention.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Stephen Yenser\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“This first American book from the prolific and celebrated Polish poet and critic not only survives translation; its urbane, articulate, unpredictable free verse positively flourishes in the American English that the facing-page edition provides ... the poetry introduced here has come to stay.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Shared\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e] is destined to become an international classic ... Sosnicki is a fearless and tenacious intellectual whose poetry exhibits flashes of brilliance that illuminate our most obscure and often unacknowledged fears about contemporary life.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Sosnicki has loads of talent, and this volume offers North American readers entry into his necessary poetry ... Sosnicki reaches out to each of us, tries to wipe the anonymity off our faces, and to recover, if not rescue us, as an archeologist recovers a mud-smeared amulet from a deep stratum.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntropy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eDariusz Sośnicki is a poet, essayist, and editor. In 1994, he published the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eMarlewo\u003c\/em\u003e, which received Czas Kultury’s Best First Book Award. Sośnicki’s poems and literary essays have been published in many magazines and anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, in both Polish and in translation. From 2005-2013 Sośnicki worked at W.A.B. Publishing House as editor of Polish contemporary fiction. He currently lives in Poznań, Poland.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translators\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ePiotr Florczyk is a poet, essayist, and translator from his native Polish. He is editor and translator of \u003cem\u003eFroth: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e by Jaroslaw Mikolajewski (Calypso Editions, 2013), \u003cem\u003eThe Folding Star and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e by Jacek Gutorow (BOA Editions, 2012), \u003cem\u003eBuilding the Barricade and Other Poems of Anna Swir\u003c\/em\u003e (Calypso Editions, 2011), and \u003cem\u003eBeen and Gone: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e of Julian Kornhauser (Marick Press, 2009). He teaches at the University of San Diego and at San Diego State University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e Boris Dralyuk holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA. He is the translator of Leo Tolstoy's \u003cem\u003eHow Much Land Does a Man Need \u003c\/em\u003e(Calypso Editions, 2010), \u003cem\u003eA Slap in the Face: Four Russian Furturist Manifestos \u003c\/em\u003e(Insert Blanc Press, 2013), and Anton Chekhov's \u003cem\u003eLittle Trilogu \u003c\/em\u003e(forthcoming from Calypso Editions, 2014), and co-translator of Polina Barskova's \u003cem\u003eThe Zoe in Winter: Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003e(Melville House, 2011). He is also the co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eAnthology of Russsian Poetry from Puskin to Brodsky\u003c\/em\u003e (Penguin Classics, 2015). He received First Prize in the 2011 Compass Translation Award competition, and, with Irina Mashinski, First Prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky\/Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: June 10, 2014\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cstrong\u003e978-1-938160-34-9\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2014\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420305093,"sku":"9781938160349","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/theworldshared_bookstore_3.jpeg?v=1527683619"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/132.1315585591.jpeg?v=1449014849","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/piotr-florczyk.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}