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.

Piotr Gwiazda was born in Olsztyn, Poland, in 1973 and came to the United States in 1991. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he teaches courses in modern and contemporary poetry.-w