Sarah Kain Gutowski
Praise
"Gutowski looks unflinchingly at the animal part of ourselves — our potential for harm — that we often refuse to acknowledge."
— Jessica Cuello, Poetry Editor, Tahoma Literary Review
"What matters is this: Sarah Kain Gutowski has a voice in American poetry. It's a unique, finely tuned voice that does not rely on effects, and resonates with music that is unquestionably hers. She writes about being a woman, a mother, a lover, in ways that avoid all the common pitfalls of gender writing, of political angles, and the studied obfuscation of the prevailing style..."
— Stephanos Papadopoulos, author of The Black Sea
Interviews and Recordings
Review of Fabulous Beast: Poems
"In her prose poem epilogue, Gutowski introduces two major threads of this collection: motherhood and myth . . ."
Review of Fabulous Beast in Exit 7 by Amelia Martens, Associate Editor and Review Editor
"Here, in the language of the final poem, even as the mother assumes human shape and cares for a human child, a son, she remains in 'this other female’s' body. The mother is not a woman who was briefly transformed into a sow. The mother is the sow who occasionally becomes human. How long will she be locked in a strange new skin? Forever, Gutowski suggests. Mothering is forever, and the mists that shroud it are inescapable."
"Beastly Mother, Motherly Beast" by Sarah Beddow for The Hairsplitter