Andrew Demcak has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators. The most-rated is Night Chant.
If There's a Heaven Above
Summary
If There's a Heaven Above takes the listener on a tour of the Southern California demi-monde Goth scene of the mid-1980s, as seen through the eyes of club-kid, Matt. The novel combines innocence with experience, sex and drugs, Love and Rockets, with just the right touch of poetry. It is a thrilling ride along the freeways and turntables of that era: when AIDS was new, Reagan was King, and hope was a wounded kitten, cared for by the creatures of the night. The novel unfurls like an alternate-universe John Hughes movie. The story of three young friends navigating love, sex, drugs, and heartbreak in the LA Goth scene is brilliantly rendered. You'll listen to it in one sitting.
©2018 Andrew Demcak (P)2019 Andrew Demcak
Catching Tigers in Red Weather
Summary
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, the poet 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.
©2007, 2018 Andrew Demcak (P)2018 Andrew Demcak
Limboville
Summary
Sally Moon is a famous romance novelist languishing away in a cancer hospice surrounded by her devoted nurse/fan, Jose, her doting brother, Fred, and a cast of characters called up from Greek mythology. As Ms. Moon counts the cancer treatments and her finals days, she takes a whirlwind journey through The Underworld, which, come to think of it, is a lot like New York City. Will she complete her final book before her publisher, Mr. Z, cancels her contract?
©2019 Andrew Demcak (P)2019 Andrew Demcak
Night Chant
Summary
The terse, dark pieces in Andrew Demcak's fourth collection of poems occur under the cover of night. Into a richly macabre cityscape, the voices in these poems expose their secrets, from the desire of unbearable addictions to the shocking violence of hate crimes. In their spareness, with their array of surprising images, these poems are bold in their brevity. They converge into the urgent whispered voices we hear following us in the dark-our own voices and the voices of those like us. They become night chants.
©2018 Andrew Demcak (P)2019 Andrew Demcak