ANDREW DEMCAK: NEW POEMS AT ELIMAE

I have 3 new poems in the December elimae.  These are all from my new book, A Single Hurt Color.  You can get a flavor of that new collection.  Don't you love David Spiher's collages?  He also did the cover of my book, Zero Summer.  Click below:

ELIMAE

ANDREW DEMCAK BY DIDI MENENDEZ, 2008

The American Poets Series, 

"Andrew Demcak" by Didi Menendez, 2008, 

oil on canvas panel (10 by 8 inches).

MATTHEW HITTINGER LIKES ANDREW DEMCAK, SO SHOULD YOU

MiPO's cover boy and also fabulous poet Matthew Hittinger left me a nice comment after he finished reading my book, Catching Tigers in Red Weather:

"I enjoyed it very much! Love the 12 line form--creates a nice compression and tension to the imagery and pace. And there's some lovely music in there--I like how the rhyme is often embedded, the final word of a couplet rhyming not with the final word of its companion first line, but with the second- or third-to-last word of the previous line. Good stuff."

ANDREW DEMCAK AVAILABLE @ SPD - YAY!

Catching Tigers in Red Weather is now being distributed also through Small Press Distribution (SPD).  Here's the blurb about my book:

Poetry. CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER, winner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award (selected by Joan Larkin), is a collection of poems by a new voice that combines montage cut-ups with an informing dialectic that gives us a wide array of contemporary American viewpoints. By turns playful and serious, he deftly embraces and criticizes a popular culture that is too complicated to dismiss with swift and simple comments. It is a book of rich rewards. "Andrew Demcak is a poet unafraid of the harrowing, sometimes revelatory nature of modern life. Above all, these poems evoke the moments when people come together, both in violent and romantic ways, and they also train a keen eye on the aftermaths of our partings. CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER will remind everyone who reads it that beauty and fear come into the world hand-in-hand. Like any significant poetry, it will alter its readers' perspectives forever"--Kaya Oakes. 

SPD WEBSITE

ANDREW DEMCAK READS LIVE ON THE JOE MILFORD INTERNET RADIO POETRY SHOW 02/14/2009, 5PM EST

The Joe Milford Internet Radio Poetry Show

 

02/14/2009 Saturday at 5pm Eastern Time

Andrew Demcak, Author of Zero Summer & Catching Tigers in Red Weather

Andrew Demcak reads from his poetry live on The Joe Milford Internet Radio Poetry Show on Sat. February 14th, 2009 at 5pm EST.  If can't listen in live, the show archives its readings and interviews from acclaimed and established poets from Americaand Canada. The Joe Milford Poetry Show prides itself on its candid and organic nature infused with lively discussions of poetics, genres, the writing processes, and a myriad of theories and movements in poetry. 

Join me on 02/14/09, 5pm EST for the regularly scheduled show live, or after that, listen to me in the archives.  

For more information, please click on the links at the bottom .  Thanks! 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Joe-Milford-Show

http://joemilfordpoetryshow.com/

...is for "Quarrel."  I am the guest poet right now on Quarrel.  Watch my poem "Drinking Song" take shape over the next few days.  Currently, the raw, rough draft is uploaded.  Next a middle phase draft, where most of the chaff will be winnoned.  Finally, the completed poem will emerge from the jumble.  Really!

QUARREL

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS INFO FOR ZERO SUMMER

As a working librarian, I live for my Library of Congress (LOC) information.  Geoffrey Gatza, editor of BlazeVOX [Books], let me know that my ISBN/barcode/LOC info just came in for my new book, Zero Summer.  If you are at all curious, here is the link to the LOC where you can do a basic search for me by name or book title:

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Yay!

THE PAST HAUNTS ANDREW DEMCAK @ GOODREADS

Two very old anthologies, Velvet Avalanche  and Scream When You Burn, have both surfaced on my author profile on Goodreads.  It's not that I have anything against this, I really like both anthologies.  It's just that they are examples of my really old poetry.  Please blame the editors for the quality of my work.  I have 3 poems in each of these.  You can buy them for about $2 a piece on Amazon.com.