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MERITAGE PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT
Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children
By Geoffrey Gatza
Release Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9794119-6-0
Price: U.S. $16.00
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Geoffrey Gatza's poetry for children has been one of the greatest secrets in
contemporary poetry. Meritage Press is delighted to share this secret by
releasing Gatza's inaugural book of poetry for children (of all ages):
Housecat Kung Fu.
To celebrate Gatza's historic release, Meritage Press is pleased to announce
a RELEASE SPECIAL. For orders received through February 28, 2009, the book
will be available at a 25% discount for $12.00. There will be free shipping
as well to U.S. residents (if you are based outside of the U.S., please
email [log in to unmask] for the logistics). You can order by sending a
check made out to "Meritage Press" to
Eileen Tabios
Publisher, Meritage Press
256 North Fork Crystal Springs Rd.
St. Helena, CA 94574
Gatza is the author of seven other books of poetry; his Not So Fast
Robespierre and Kenmore: Poem Unlimited are available from Menendez
Publishing. He is also the editor and publisher of BlazeVOX [books]. Gatza
lives in Kenmore, New York. More information about him is available at
http://geoffreygatza.com <http://geoffreygatza.com/> and
http://blazevox.org <http://blazevox.org/> .
Meritage Press is pleased to share an excerpt from one of the many
delightful poems in Housecat Kung Fu -- this is from "Lorikeet Landing":
Last Wednesday I overheard
a rainbow colored bird say
wouldn't you bring to me
a listening booth
and a swimming tree
a comfy ocean chair
and some sand from Waikiki
a wisdom tooth
and a cup of crystal tea
a mystical flying mare
and a large screen TV
or maybe a common pea
and a castle floating in air
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ALSO NOW AVAILABLE
Kenmore: Poem Unlimited
The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,
comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical,
historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-
comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or
poem unlimited
LORD POLONIUS, The Tragedy of Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark Act 2, Scene 2
In Geoffrey Gatza's latest collection he gives us his instructions for this
book, "The way to/the other/Is found in/the not other." While not looking
for the exact similar, he continues "fishing in the sewer gate" as he heads
backwards and into his home town. But his home town, and the investigation,
must include the poet's being brought up in Catholicism. In addition to the
Bible, he uses other (there is that word again) canonical works of the West
(the Ancient Greeks must have made quite an impression!). At times epic, at
other times lyric, Gatza continues his fusion cuisine aesthetic while he
feels "strange about it but I place / Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade /
In the DVD player and smoke a pipe." So, pop some popcorn, get some smokes,
and read about this movie cum poem.
‹Kevin Thurston
In this exhilarating investigation marking the overdetermined space of
relation between the arbitrary character of language and the singular
materiality of place, Gatza insists ³Kenmore may hold the key to our
stabilityŠ.² Kenmore, he tells us, is an otherwise anonymous village in
Eerie Country, NY on the outskirts of Buffalo‹a village that could be any
and every village but is, in the materiality of its ordinariness, singularly
unique. Like Kerouac's Lowell, O'Hara's New York or Olson's Gloucester,
Gatza's Kenmore is an interminably unfolding geo-social space exhaustively
filtered through the shifting textures of a kinetic imagination always in
overdrive.
‹Richard Owens
Synopsis:
It is the way things change that brings the myth to Kenmore, the poet's
hometown. This collection of poems is one work, divided. Blending two
stories, the story of Gwion And The Wisdom Potion taken from the Mabinogi
and the apocryphal apocalyptic text, The Book of Enoch. Through Devils,
Giants and Dream Visions; A Magic Silver Fish of Wisdom, a witch and maple
keys, the poet passes through life to a rebirth in the womb of a witch to a
new life to a death that begins to look like life only to come back to find
providence is truly suburbia.
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Available now $16
Kenmore: Poem Unlimited
By Geoffrey Gatza
Goss 183 Casa Menendez
110 Pages
ISBN is 1440463115
EAN-13 is 9781440463112
http://www.geoffreygatza.com/Kenmore/vol1.htm
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Best, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Gatza
Editor & Publisher
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BlazeVOX [ books ]
Publisher of weird little books
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http://www.blazevox.org
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http://www.geoffreygatza.com/
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Not So Fast Robespierre by Geoffrey Gatza
http://www.lulu.com/content/1767006
NOW Available from Menendez Publishing
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