Charles Rammelkamp’s The Trapeze of Your Flesh, Reviewed

In The Trapeze of Your Flesh, Charles Rammelkamp invites readers to traverse the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength, exploring the intersection of the body and the self through a series of poignant poems. Dan Cuddy, in his review for The Loch Raven Review, highlights Rammelkamp's masterful ability to weave emotional depth with striking imagery, crafting a narrative that resonates with the complexities of human experience. The collection captures the essence of physicality and essence, offering an intimate journey that challenges perceptions of identity and existence. A must-read for those seeking a profound exploration of life's most intimate moments.

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Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org
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