Joanna Kurowska

The Butterfly's Choice Joanna Kurowska

Poetry. Like the titular butterfly trapped in a headlamp, the poetry in this new collection by Polish-American author Joanna Kurowska occupies the boundaries and extremities of our human condition, probing and challenging what it means to live half-eaten but still grasping at the possibility of hope and meaning, yielding half-beauty to the world. Informed by the poet's immigrant experience of shifting between homelands and languages, and underpinned by her exploration of gnosticism, these are works of clear-eyed observation and studied contemplation.