Andrzej Kotäski, once called "a star waiting to be discovered" by Biblioteka Kraków, is creative in poetry, prose, drama and the sung word. He debuted in 1990 with a collection of short stories entitled Czterdzie¿ci siedem tysi¿cy bankietów [Forty-Seven Thousand Banquets], and since then has brought out three volumes of verse: Elegia o p¿aszczu skórzanym [An Elegy of a Leather Jacket, 1992], Jutro b¿dzie wiosna [Tomorrow Will Be Spring, 1994] and Wiersze o mom psychiatrze [Poems about my Psychiatrist, 2011], the entirety of which is translated here into English. Kotäski is the author of one play Wersalka [The Couch, 2000], and has composed many original songs in Polish, as well as translating songs from Italian, Spanish, French, English and Russian. Having studied Romance languages and literatures at the University of Warsaw (his master's thesis is a close reading of the French poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke), he has worked at the Institut Français in Warsaw, and also in advertising.