Geoffrey Gatza
American poet
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Geoffrey C. Gatza (born 1970) is an American poet and editor and the publisher of BlazeVOX [books], an independent press based in Buffalo, New York.[1]
Early life and education
Gatza grew up in Kenmore in Erie County, New York and attended four schools in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District: Jane Addams Elementary School, Lindbergh Elementary School, Kenmore Middle School, and Kenmore West High School.[2]
He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and Daemen College in Amherst, New York.[3]
Personal life
Books
- House of Forgetting (2012)[6]
- Secrets of My Prison House (2010)[7]
- La Santa Muerte, the Saint of Death (2010)[8]
- Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children (2009)[9][10][11]
- Not So Fast Robespierre (2008)[12][13]
- E: Electron (with Deena Larsen) (2001)
The last of these books uses the periodic table of elements as the structure for a love story. As the story progresses, another "electron" of memory is added to the lives of the book's primary "elements."