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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182860739 Title: Catching tigers in red weather : poems Author: Andrew Demcak Publisher: [Burnsville, MN] : Three Candles Press, ©2007. ISBN/ISSN: 0977089231 9780977089239 OCLC:182860739

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Catching tigers in red weather : poems

Author:	Andrew Demcak
Publisher:	[Burnsville, MN] : Three Candles Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Poetry : English
Rating:	based on 5 rating(s) 2 with reviews
Subjects	American poetry -- 21st century. American poetry.
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Andrew Demcak Find more information about:
ISBN:	0977089231 9780977089239
OCLC Number:	182860739
Notes:	"Winner of the Three Candles Press Open book award judged by Joan Larkin"--Cover
Description:	viii, 75 pages ; 23 cm
Responsibility:	by Andrew Demcak.

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A Magcian of Poetry by Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

by Ad-Lib (WorldCat user published 2008-10-16) Excellent

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Andrew Demcak is a polished professional. Though his poems have appeared in many very fine journals, this appears to be his first published collection where the stage is his and his alone. His style is unique: each of the 66 poems is written in six stanzas of couplets and each poem lives on an individual page, and from this 'confinement' that would restrict other writers in scope of content and conveying a mood or atmosphere or short story, Demcak creates his magic.

The range of emotions and images and topics and observations he touches is so vast that Demcak is able to address any reader of poetry and enhance previous flights of thought with completely new visions. Equally at home in describing nature and people and memories of poets passed, he draws upon what seems like an endless vocabulary which he uses in ways that causes our infatuation with words to blossom with fresh meaning. An example:

'SLEEP IN THE MOJAVE DESERT
We doze and swelter in a comfortless
desert. Stars ignite the lengthy evening.

Crickets congregate in their armor-plate.
Grains of sand retain the day's heat. We lie

queerly here, objects of obsidian.
The rabbit's sad cry from owl talon.

The sky splits at sunup to dearer air,
cool dew gliding from the blue horizon,

the straight distance without road or address.
Noonday earthstones connecting dry lines,

guarding their pallid salts, where lizards creep
like firecats emerged from cinders.'

Extracting one poem from this bounty contained in CATCHING TIGERS IN RED WEATHER is almost cruel, so completely fresh is every poem and profound. Demcak is able to cross gender lines as well as any poet today as his LAST LOVE proves:

'So everything came into place, He tore
the gauze to the core of my boyhood,

sliding in while my eyelids turned plum.
His bitter mouth, the insistent red veil

of the Gaza sun, my thighs like twin doors
held open. I had chosen the closest

man, cut my bandages like a runner
testing his legs. I unfolded myself

a loose-petalled Narcissus, Anxious
for his erection, condomless, straining,

unaware that his body politic
was followed by the viral campaign.'

Andrew Demcak is an important new voice, a man who will surely change literature and the way we enter the unexplainable places that poetry finds and describes. This is a rich book of brilliant jewels. Highly recommended! Grady Harp, October 08

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This is a book of gems!

by AndrewDemcak (WorldCat user published 2007-12-07) Excellent

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"Andrew Demcak's poems make acrobatic leaps and turns that dizzy and delight me, flashing their urban wit, their old-young wisdom, and their exhilarating range of language and feeling. Demcak's ingenious invention is a compact, elegant form, repeated throughout the book as world after surprising world,...
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This is a book of gems!

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