JASON ZUZGA was born in Camden, New Jersey, and grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Paris Review, Tin House, and the Yale Review. He is currently pursuing a PhD in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania, working on a dissertation about nature documentary and media.
Heat Wake is everything I am excited about in poetry now...Who
connects time travel and the sleek bodies of surfers and drive down
the coast in such a strange and beautiful way?... I would trade
this one poem for a dozen other full collections I have read in the
past year...this collection makes you want to write your own poems
because it just hums with an infectious vitality...You must have it
in your life and on your shelf.--Christopher Nelson
"FrankMontessonti.com" (1/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)
The loss of the father, the complexities of time and
love--traditional lyric concerns woven together with iconic images
from pop culture create a world deeply felt and wonderfully
habitable...It is appropriate that the opening poem is titled
Elegy, and no, it isn't ironic that it is a love poem, for it, like
the others in the book, is an example of a heat wake, of the warmth
of life that gets left behind. The best we can do is love it all as
it passes from us.--Christopher Nelson "Under a Warm Green Linden"
(3/5/2016 12:00:00 AM)
Zuzga's debut collection...erupts in expressions that alternate
between euphoria and lament. He establishes this strange amalgam
from the opening lines of the first poem: "All rocks are queer. By
this I mean/ I'm gay." In "Love Poem," Zuzga recalls a melancholic
youth in the dark shadow of an emerging queer identity ("I was
angry at myself for being a teenaged mermaid")...In the title poem,
he gets futuristic, imagining the cyborg "not-yet elephants of
Mars."-- "Publishers Weekly" (2/12/2016 12:00:00 AM)
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