Canonicals: Love’s Hours by David Radavich

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In this thoughtful and well-wrought collection, David Radavich explores cycles of human experience as fundamental as the passage of time: the steady progression from dawn to dusk, the turning of seasons, the coming of night. “Time,” he writes, “will never be/ more substantial than poems/now firm in hand.” In every poem, the moment gives rise to a meditation on the emotional and spiritual dimensions of life. An original and compelling voice echoes throughout this deeply felt volume, making allusions to the more formal liturgies of “Matins” and “Vespers” seem completely natural. Canonicals bears witness to absence and loss but above all offers the solace of song. It is, in the end, about healing and redemption: “rediscovering what/has been lost by many others/and found again like/sunrise.”
–Christian Knoeller

 

The poems of David Radavich‘s Canonicals suggest various masters—William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, the Surrealists—yet speak with an authority all their own. Sinuous and surprising, they both command and reward attention. Especially remarkable is the chiming, winding “Nocturne,” a fine piece of footwork indeed.
–Robert West

 

In David Radavich’s latest collection, “The day is bitter/as a sweet,” and the poet demands, “Let me be there for it all.” Each of these meticulously crafted poems leads us from darkness into hope—from rapes and military coups to the place where “your skin/is set fire/into new life.”
–Jackie Sheeler

 

 

 

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Canonicals: Love’s Hours

by David Radavich

$14, paper

Poet and playwright David Radavich has written on a variety of contemporary issues. His poetry collections include SLAIN SPECIES (Court Poetry, London, 1980), BY THE WAY: POEMS OVER THE YEARS (Buttonwood, 1998), and GREATEST HITS (Pudding House, 2000). His plays have been performed across the U.S., including six Off-Off-Broadway, as well as in Europe. AMERICA BOUND: AN EPIC FOR OUR TIME (Plain View, 2007) narrates history from World War II to the present, while CANONICALS (Finishing Line, 2009) explores “love’s hours.” MIDDLE-EAST MEZZE (Plain View, 2011) visits a troubled yet enchanting part of our world. THE COUNTRIES WE LIVE IN (Main Street Rag, 2014) explores inner and outer geographies. His latest narrative collection is AMERICA ABROAD: AN EPIC OF DISCOVERY (Plain View, 2019).

Radavich has also published a wide range of academic and informal articles on poetry and drama. He has performed in such far-flung locations as Canada, Egypt, England, France, Greece, Iceland, and Scotland. Among numerous prizes, he received the MidAmerica Award in 2012 for his contributions to Midwestern literature and scholarship, as well as the Zelda and Paul Gitlin Literary Prize for best essay on Thomas Wolfe. He was awarded the Gitlin Literary Prize again in 2014. A past president of the Thomas Wolfe Society, Charlotte Writers’ Club, and North Carolina Poetry Society, he currently coordinates of the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series.

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