<p>"<em>Invisible </em>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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 ..." </p><p><br></p><p>- Mark Ford, from the Introduction to <em>Invisible</em></p>