Stephen Bett’s SongBu®st Reviewed

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

Stephen Bett’s SongBu®st is reviewed in Billy Mills blog, ELLIPTICAL MOVEMENTS.

Recent Reading August 2024: A Review  

“Stephen Bett’s SongBu®st is a series of glorious celebrations of popular song, linguistically exuberant, politically engaged, and lots of fun. Most of the songs referenced come from the ‘long’ 1960s (one exception is Dylan’s ‘Slow Train Coming’, but Dylan is the 60s for many) and range from The Archies to the aforementioned Zimmerman. Bett’s focus (via footnotes at the end of each poem) is on specific recordings, rather than songwriters, unless the recording happens to be by the writer. Again, there ae exceptions, with Burt Bacharach and Carole King getting shoutouts via other people’s versions of their songs.”

Read all of Mill’s reviews here:
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/recent-reading-august-2024-a-review/


Check out Stephen Bett’s SongBu®st here.

 

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

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