Gagarin Street Poems

Poetry. Chosen for The Montserrat Review's Best Picks for Poetry 2005, GAGARIN STREET offers an edgy and disquieting meditation on the intersection of private and public history. "From the title poem of Piotr Gwiazda's impressive debut collection, a recurring theme announces itself: altered history and the poet's qualified attempts at recognition, if not full reclamation"--Gaylord Brewer. "These poems remind us how easily the Gagarin Streets of our youth may disappear, and of the poet's vital task to re-inscribe them for the future's fellow travelers"--Mark Nowak. Piotr Gwiazda teaches modern and contemporary poetry at University of Maryland Baltimore County.Gwiazda, Piotr is the author of 'Gagarin Street Poems' with ISBN 9780931846809 and ISBN 0931846803.