Geoffrey C. Gatza (born 1970) is an American

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and the

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of BlazeVOX ooks an independent press based in

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Early life and education

Gatza grew up in Kenmore in Erie County,

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and attended four schools in the

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: Jane Addams Elementary School, Lindbergh Elementary School, Kenmore Middle School, and Kenmore West High School. He is a graduate of the

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and

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Personal life

Gatza resides in Kenmore, New York with his girlfriend Donna.

Books

* ''House of Forgetting'' (2012) * ''Secrets of My Prison House'' (2010) * ''La Santa Muerte, the Saint of Death'' (2010) * ''Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children'' (2009) * ''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
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) (2001) The last of these books uses the

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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."

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gatza, Geoffrey 1970 births American publishers (people) Poets from New York (state) Living people People from Kenmore, New York Culinary Institute of America Hyde Park alumni American male poets Daemen University alumni 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers