Leonard Gontarek’s Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me, Reviewed by Lee Rossi

Leonard Gontarek Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me BlazeVOX [books] Reviewer: Lee Rossi You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Well, maybe not cry—maybe just tear up or breathe a heavy sigh as you page through Leonard Gontarek’s new book, Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me. Let’s begin at the end, with an interview between Gontarek and poet […]

Leonard Gontarek’s The Long Way Home, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner

Leonard Gontarek The Long Way Home BlazeVOX [books] Reviewer: Vivian Wagner   Leonard Gontarek’s The Long Way Home is, in fact, a long poetry collection—over 400 pages!—with a sweeping, sublime style to match its length. Perhaps that length is necessary to do what the collection seems to want and need to do: make sense of […]

Leonard Gontarek – About the Great Trees

About The Great Trees       I write about the great trees. That is, the sea of leaves, a coming darkness, rising past the windows. I understand I may not understand. Not everyone does. I accept it       like a train without an open seat moving past mountains, coated with purple talc, […]