Self Geofferential

Author: Geoffrey Gatza

Publisher: Blazevox (2025)

"Geoffrey Gatza’s Self Geofferential is a hybrid extravaganza of poetry and collage that unfolds in a range of innovative literary and visual forms. Gatza’s playful, self-reflective writing and graphic art is infused with such exuberant inventiveness that it finds new lights shining in a night sky filled with stars. 'The whole world is a hurricane,' Gatza writes. Yet even when the book assumes an elegiac voice, Self Geofferential points us toward a vision of 'Flowers growing / in bits of broken everything.' With the serious whimsy of a Zen master, Gatza’s commitment to the present moment is a reminder that the world can be luminous in its brokenness: 'In a home where nothing really matters / at all, life will never be this easy again.'

—Tony Trigilio