Noah C. Lekas is an author, essayist, poet and musician.
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The Lunch-bucket Letters: A working-class inquiry into values, culture, creativity, consciousness and philosophy.
Saturday Night Sage
“There are rare poetry collections that make me feel like the beat aesthetic never went away but instead crawled into a corner in a dark bar and somehow refined itself into something new, something as spiritual and strange as the original incarnation but shorter, sharper, and tied to contemporary America in ways that cut to the heart of what the country is and has suffered.” - Pank Magazine
“A poet who knows how to turn the world around him into vivid depictions that brings to mind Hubert Selby Jr. and darker figures of the literary world. ” - Glide Magazine
Sounds from the Shadow Factory
“Poetry and psychedelia, as if Tom Waits had hitched a ride on the Jefferson Airplane’s version of Wooden Ships.” - David Fricke
“Lekas and company bring us on an inviting and unique journey through a very creative and eloquent mind.” - Take Effect Reviews