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Geoffrey Gatza is the editor and Publisher of BlazeVOX [books] and the author of five books of poetry; Not So Fast Robespierre is now available from Menendez Publishing. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY (1993) and Daemen College, Amherst, NY (2002), and served as a U.S. Marine in the first gulf war. He lives in Kenmore, NY with his girlfriend and two cats.

http://www.geoffreygatza.com/
http://www.blazevox.org

Not So Fast Robespierre
is out and available NOW!!!!
http://www.lulu.com/content/1767006

Awards:
Fund for Poetry (2008) $4,000
John T. Masterson Award (2000) $1,000

Reviews, Articles & Interviews:
+ Review of Black Diamond Golden Boy Takes Bull By Horns
http://jacketmagazine.com/34/owens-gatza.shtml

+ Review of BlazeVOX and Publishing
http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/2007/11/jlyn-chapman-blazevox-and-publishing.html

+ Interview on MiPOesias Magazine
http://menoftheweb.blogspot.com/2007/10/geoffrey-gatza.html

+ Review of I Wear a Figleaf Over My Penis
http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n32/i_wear_a_figleaf_over_my_penis

+ Article: Crazy Buffalo Poet Has A Lot Cooking
http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n13/geoffrey_gatza

In Not so Fast Robespierre, Buffalo's Johnny Appleseed of publishing lays out a public and private map of Buffalo's (and his personal) community. With his selected Western New York School and personal support system in place, he moves onto "The Book of Life", which, as always, proceeds disaster as Gatza battles through—rightly or wrongly—the "Cataclysm 535".

Kevin Thurston, Performance Artist & Poet; author of I’am Bored



By placing equal stress on the pleasures and duties of friendship and the threat of natural catastrophe, Not So Fast, Robespierre rescues intimacy from self-involvement and affection from affectation, reinvigorating the confessional poem. Frank O'Hara once created convivial letters out of a collaged New York City life; today, in his labyrinth of lyric, email exchanges, notes, memoir, conspiracy and history, Geoffrey Gatza has achieved the poetry of the search engine and I.M.

Evan Willner, author of homemade traps for new world Brians, nominated for a Pushcart Prize




How can Geoffrey Gatza fit so much love between two cardboard covers? Not So Fast Robespierre snakes us through a world of poets, neighbors, teachers and muses, all with a raw devotion we would do well to wear on our own coat sleeves. This series of remembrances does not discriminate in spreading out for us equal measures of admiration and lessons learned because, in the end, "Everyone gets a gold star and cake in the friendly garden."

Amy King, author of I’m the Man Who Loves You, twice nominated for the Lambda Award and Pushcart Nominee.