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Invisible

by Jacek Gutorow

Translated by Piotr Florczyk
Introduced by Mark Ford

Part of our Visible Poets series edited by Jean Boase-Beier

Invisible is a teasing title for a collection of poetry. [Wallace] Stevens, with whose work Jacek Gutorow has a deep and sustained engagement, suggested in ‘The Creations of Sound’, that poems should ‘make the visible a little hard / To see’ […] Both Gutorow and Stevens develop a poetic medium that maintains an oscillating dialectic between the seen and the unseen. The invisible operates not as an occlusion of reality, but as an aura saturating what is described; images are gently prised from the contexts of time and place and invested with a mysterious in-between life...

Mark Ford, from the Introduction to Invisible

ISBN: 9781911469971
Published September 2021

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