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Read in November, 2008
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ZERO SUMMER
Poems by Andrew Demcak
And a Stimulus from TS Eliot
Andrew Demcak continues to blossom as a poet of note with his newest collection of pieces of imagination married to craftsmanship. ZERO SUMMER is apparently inspired or derived from the thoughts by TS Eliot’s Phrases from ‘Little Gidding’, one of the portions of his FOUR QUARTETS. Demcak divides this body of work into three sections, each reflecting a phrase from the quoted Eliot about those fract...more
Poems by Andrew Demcak
And a Stimulus from TS Eliot
Andrew Demcak continues to blossom as a poet of note with his newest collection of pieces of imagination married to craftsmanship. ZERO SUMMER is apparently inspired or derived from the thoughts by TS Eliot’s Phrases from ‘Little Gidding’, one of the portions of his FOUR QUARTETS. Demcak divides this body of work into three sections, each reflecting a phrase from the quoted Eliot about those fract...more
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I love this book, it lets language lead with frank and richly twisting images. Love the title too, wish I had thought of it myself....
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Read in March, 2009
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Zero Summer is a brutally beautiful and honest collection of poems. Demcak’s verses have the feeling of wrought iron; they have a rarified quality. Always intelligent and provocative, the lingering after-effect of reading Zero Summer is that of a Cocteau denouement- a harrowing insight into the soul of the poet. Truly, Demcak is a poets’ poet. The darling of academia and the thinking populous alike, Demcak’s poetry has always been an IQ test; it is rarely appreciated by the uneducated ...more
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I've said this before, I'm no poetry critic.
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.
Thanks for your honesty, and for sharing your experiences with me.
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.
Thanks for your honesty, and for sharing your experiences with me.
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