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false <![CDATA[Zero Summer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224975021m/5232173.jpg 5232173 1 Demcak continues to blossom as an important poet with ZERO SUMMER, his newest collection of pieces of imagination married to craftsmanship. These poems define lust, desire, onanism, finding and feeling and losing love affairs, childhood longings and memories - the sum of a sensual being. Demcak's range is from the lyrical ('Vincent V. in 1993') to the raw ('Venus in Furs'). He offers the rare opportunity to share the struggles of writing poetry, as in 'Automated Response to Mark Strand': '…the poem is a permission/given away,'- and delves into current events - tragedies, disease, social injustices, world events that seem planets away until he stirs them into spells for the reader. Imagery such as this, and the countless other examples begging to be quoted from these fifty seven poems, create such rich atmospheres of beauty and urgency, and thoughts without horizon, that they seem to be coming from countless fertile minds instead of just one. Andrew Demcak has the gift and we are all richer for it.” —Grady Harp "ZERO SUMMER's skinny, sticky, cock-swaggering poems take 'bloody comfort' in Andrew Demcak's lubricated, literary longing, the bourbon 'sweet / with unimagined grief,' the very words 'laboring / over / the soup-bones of literature.' This is a book that will get under your fingernails." —Randall Mann “Spiralling electrically around a theme of longing, Demcak's newest work moves outward in arcs—from the sensual self, in erotic and familial relationship with the other ("my skin listening // still no accompanist: I can't kiss me!" )—to the writing and artistic self, the creative pursuit of spirit through form (God "an unflawed blackberry…rosettes of icing…the murdered and the living brightness")—to this spirit in the world and in other people ("O divine architect! / O quick-drying cement!"). His language is playful, charged, articulate and highly crafted—always with an introspective sense of humor and form. Full of music from Ellington to Schoenberg, full of heroes from Noah to Ginsberg, Demcak's poems are attuned to both absurdity and pathos, those extremes that lead the poet and the reader towards their "unimaginable" Zero Summer.” —Nina LindsayZero Summer is available from Amazon.com, SPD, and BlazeVOX [Books] with BONUS poems not in the e-Book version. 5299469 7 2 2009 Zero Summer total:31|5:15|4:7|3:3|2:0|1:6| 31 118 129 9 5 8 false false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 25 20:41:23 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 11:39:56 -0800 2008 5 Poems by Andrew Demcak

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*edit* I'm giving it three stars. While the writing was very good, the subject wasn't for me. If I had read two or three poems on the topic, I would probably have walked away wowed, but in thi...more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu Nov 06 14:36:05 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 14:40:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 18:26:05 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 18:26:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 30 13:40:39 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 13:41:35 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 13:15:15 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 15:59:46 -0800 2009
But I like the way Andrew strings words together.

Andrew's poems make me laugh, and cry, and rejoice in the experience of being human and living in this crazy mixed up world.

Bravo, Andrew.

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