Name David Rivard | Role Poet | |
Education University of Arizona (1982) Awards James Laughlin Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Otherwise Elsewhere: Poems, Wise Poison, Bewitched playground, Sugartown: Poems, Torque |
David rivard soft comfort of a dream
David Rivard (born 1953 in Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American poet.
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- David rivard soft comfort of a dream
- Poet David Rivard introduces Jess Feldman at University of New Hamsphire Dec 2011
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- Ploughshares
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His poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and TriQuarterly. David Rivard is Poetry Editor at the Harvard Review, and teaches at the University of New Hampshire, and the Vermont College M.F.A. in Writing Program. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Poet David Rivard introduces Jess Feldman at University of New Hamsphire - Dec. 2011
Awards
Works
Ploughshares
Books
Criticism
Reviews
To the extent that poems are all, implicitly or explicitly, narrations of a lyric impulse, they are untoward. They are about something, to paraphrase Allen Grossman, the way a cat is about a house. Each poem in Wise Poison passes through so many shifts of narrative direction that no usual sense of destination survives; rather, directional moves are replaced by an accumulation of patterns of change (changes in tense, changes in figuration, changes in overlay of image, curves of memory in cloverleaf). The very notion of passage (temporal, spatial, literary) is redirected by the mind into mind, the outgoing waves traced back to an in-house organ.