New Review: The Distance, and You In It by Alexander Dickow

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

BlazeVOX is pleased to announce the publication of a new review of Alexander Dickow's The Distance, and You In It by poet and scholar Kristen Renzi.

In an insightful and engaging essay, Renzi examines Dickow's ambitious exploration of creation, language, identity, and love, praising the collection's inventive formal range and philosophical depth. She describes the experience of reading the book as one of "half bafflement, all delight," recognizing its remarkable ability to balance intellectual rigor with humor, wonder, and emotional resonance.

Renzi's review offers readers a thoughtful introduction to Dickow's richly imagined poetic universe and highlights the collection as an important contribution to contemporary poetry.

We invite you to read the full review and to explore The Distance, and You In It, available from BlazeVOX Books.

Read the whole review here:
https://www.poetryinreview.com/reviews/the_distance_and_you_in_it.html


The Distance, and You In It:
https://www.blazevox.org/shop-1/p/the-distance-and-you-in-it-by-alexander-dickow

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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