In The Night is a Bridge, we find Geoffrey Gatza at the height of his poetic powers, having perfected a deceptively simple style that, in fact, is not simple at all. He defamiliarizes the everyday through sheer willpower and sudden metaphoric leaps, often forcing us to look at the human condition with new eyes. […]
Peter Johnson, author of While the Undertaker Sleeps
Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018), and Self Geofferential (2025). He is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet, the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specialising in innovative fictions and contemporary poetry.
In The Night is a Bridge, we find Geoffrey Gatza at the height of his poetic powers, having perfected a deceptively simple style that, in fact, is not simple at all. He defamiliarizes the everyday through sheer willpower and sudden metaphoric leaps, often forcing us to look at the human condition with new eyes. […]
Peter Johnson, author of While the Undertaker Sleeps
Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018), and Self Geofferential (2025). He is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet, the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specialising in innovative fictions and contemporary poetry.