The Folding Star: and Other Poems

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.