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.
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.
He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and Daemen College in Amherst, New York.
Personal life Gatza resides in Kenmore, New York with his girlfriend Donna.
Books House of Forgetting (2012)House of Forgetting by Geoffrey Gatza Secrets of My Prison House (2010)Secrets of My Prison House La Santa Muerte, the Saint of Death (2010) Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children (2009)Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children Not So Fast Robespierre (2008)A Lisping Ignatius / The Sincere, The Flarf, and The Voice of Place: A reading of Geoffrey Gatza’s Not So Fast Robespierre 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."
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External links Official website