Philadelphia poet Leonard Gontarek’s poetry collections include Contact, Déjà Vu Diner and St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris. His poems have also been featured in Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry and in Best American Poetry. He uses juxtaposition to explore themes of transformation and transcendence and has described his poems as “equal parts political, erotic, and meditations on the world.” Amy Small-McKinney observed that “Leonard Gontarek asks his readers to hear, see, and practically touch, as though in a state of synesthesia, the particulars of his world. His poems ask us to suspend our own worldviews, to trust him, and to give ourselves over to his meticulous use of language and startling juxtapositions of imagery.”
- Contact
