The folding star and other poems by Jacek Gutorow and translated by Piotr Florczyk

This is poetry from Poland.

The folding star and other poems by Jacek Gutorow translated by Piotr Florczyk is published by BOA Editions. This is a Book originally written in Polish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193441488E12.

The folding star and other poems, by Jacek Gutorow, is a Polish poetry collection from Poland, translated by Piotr Florczyk, published by BOA Editions in 2012. It is a Polish collection where cosmic image and intellectual restlessness fold into one another. Gutorow’s title suggests a universe made touchable, a star brought close enough to crease. I would read it first for the pressure of the translated line rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The best version of a description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: a little context, then permission to meet the poem through image, cadence, and affect. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Poland. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local weather, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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