David Radavich's Writings
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Article
Sep.06.2010
From A VIEW FROM THE LOFT (2001)
On Poetry and Pain
Red Smith once said, “Writing is easy. All you do is sit down and open a vein.” This deliciously ironic statement hints at the intimate connection not only between writing and the body but also between the creative imagination and pain. Pain comes in all varieties and intensities, and psychic anguish can often prove more...
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Poem
Sep.06.2010
From CANONICALS: LOVE'S HOURS (Finishing Line, 2009)
EQUINOX
Rain is not enough
to stop the year
from turning into
loss and re-entrenchment,
yet the sound drums
memories down
like leaves
that curled once,
loving, and were gone
to join the many torn pages
of that book
we like to think of
as a life with
fingers, linden-shaped
disintegration...
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Article
Sep.06.2010
From A VIEW FROM THE LOFT
Species of Literary Fraud
The creative writing business, like the stock market, is booming in the '90s: in 1998, over 13,000 books of poems appeared in print, an all-time record. Whatever we may feel about the spiritual, moral, or aesthetic state of contemporary writing, it's hard to argue that the creative writing "corporate enterprise,...
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Poem
Sep.04.2010
From AMERICA BOUND: AN EPIC FOR OUR TIME (Plain View, 2007)
Invocation
The story of a nation’s rise
in global prominence
let me speak
without hypocrisy
its rich veins, its blood
lines spreading out,
listening to the voices
of those who lived simply
for themselves
and others
in the
heartland of their history,
soil and memory
and desire,
without...
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Poem
Sep.02.2010
From MIDDLE-EAST MEZZE (forthcoming January, 2011)
DANCE OF THE VEILS
Nothing is
ever truly lost.
It’s just forlorn
as the sound
of jack-hammers
tearing apart
the real world.
I carry with me
many faces
long gone: coins
in my pocket
for the slot-machines
of life, songs
overheard
walking by an
exposed balcony
with a voice
that never forgets.
Sometimes the pain...
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About David
David Radavich was born in Boston but has lived in many parts of the country as well as in Canada, Germany, and Scotland. His poetry collections include Slain Species (Court Poetry, London, 1980), By the Way: Poems over the Years (Buttonwood, 1998), and...
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Causes David Radavich Supports
Human rights world-wide, ecology/conservation, historic preservation