Book Launch: Motion Detector by Drew Gardner

Book Launch: Motion Detector by Drew Gardner
Release Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025

“Setting things right / takes the example of a unifying contradiction.” —Drew Gardner, Motion Detector


BlazeVOX [books] is thrilled to announce the release of Motion Detector, the electrifying new collection from Drew Gardner—poet, musician, and long-standing innovator at the intersection of avant-garde poetics and lived experience.

In a world increasingly defined by rupture and resonance, Motion Detector is tuned to the shockwaves. These are poems alive to the beat of our uneasy century—charming, charged, and beautifully strange. Gardner composes verse like no one else: each line a note in a score of resistance, intelligence, and absurd delight.

“Gardner composes perfectly ironic music for those ‘alive without warning’ in menacing times.” —Laynie Browne

“Never stasis by mundane detour… always sustained by kinetic by original origin.” —Will Alexander

“Poet as ‘resonating chamber’… armed with the ‘disciplined kindness’ to defuse it.” —Rodney Koeneke

Gardner’s poetic voice is unmistakably his own, but if you imagine a meeting point between the radical gestures of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry and the personal immediacy of Frank O’Hara’s “Personism,” you’ll begin to feel the vibrational field of Motion Detector. These poems don’t sit still—they spark, pivot, and surprise, speaking from inside the engine of power with humor, lyric intensity, and philosophical depth.

Drew Gardner is the author of Sugar Pill, Petroleum Hat, Chomp Away, and Defender, and the editor of Ingenious Pleasures: An Anthology of Punk, Trash, and Camp in Twentieth-Century Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. He lives in New York City.

Order your copy now and join us in celebrating this dynamic new book of poems.

📖 Book Details

  • Title: Motion Detector

  • Author: Drew Gardner

  • Pages: 90

  • Binding: Perfect-bound paperback

  • Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]

  • ISBN: 978-1-60964-494-9

  • Price: $18

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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.

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