Gary A. David
"writer, poet, online publisher, professional guitarist/vocalist.... 'the inside real/and the out sidereal' -Edward Dorn"

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55 years old
CHINO VALLEY, Arizona
United States



Last Login: 7/5/2008
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    Gary A. David's Interests
General archaeoastronomy, rock art, star mythology, petroglyphs, pictographs, Native American, Hopi, Lakota, archaeology
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What People are Saying About The Orion Zone:

“The Orion Zone is an extensively researched study of archaeological evidence, historical accounts, and the oral traditions of the Hopi peoples of the American Southwest. Readers interested in astro-archaeology or in pre-Columbian America will find a great deal of thought-provoking material here, along with citations for further study.” --Mysteries Magazine

“From the incredible adobe village complexes of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde National Park to the enigmatic symbols carved into desert rocks, the evidence David compiles is both compelling and convincing. Gary David's The Orion Zone is an extremely important book that winds through Anasazi lands like the tracks of a snake, towards a destination somewhere above the horizon where Orion walks.” --Rick M. Gned, Sub Rosa

“The correlation Mr. David makes between the Hopi and Egyptian 'sky view' imost interesting.” --Robert Bauval, co-author of The Orion Mystery and The Message of the Sphinx

“. . . a classic in its own time.” --Philip Gardiner, author of Gnosis: the Secret of Solomon’s Temple Revealed

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My newest book:

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Adventures Unlimited Press, 2008

Read about book: http://www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com/proddetail.php?prod=EOPX

Thoughts On Eye of the Phoenix:

"Gary David's work is a treasure of enormous importance. He draws us deep into the mystery of Arizona and deeper still into the lost secrets of ancient cosmology. The truth behind the myths and symbols he's uncovering has the power to unify us, just as the Hopi prophesied." --William Henry, investigative mythologist, author, co-host of Whitley Strieber's "Dreamland" radio show

"This book makes a fascinating leap of conjecture that connects legends of the ancient Hopi to modern reports of UFO's. We would all do well to listen to our earliest ancestors, especially those in the U.S., for voices that, while faint, might very well have something of importance to tell us all today." -–Lloyd Pye, author of The Starchild Skull



About My Poetry:

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"... it is my belief that an entire and powerful culture of unknown poets currently exists, whose work will ultimately need to be acclaimed if this nation is to continue to have a genuine, vital and useful poetry. Gary David is among those poets.” --Dale Jacobson

“...edgy and intelligent...” --Susan Smith Nash

“...crackles with energy...” --Keith Wilson

“...a strong western voice, steeped with local and mythical mystic streams of thought.” --Michael Crye

“...a visionary and ‘deep’ work...” --Karl Kopp, The Bloomsbury Review

“Gary David gives us this other way of seeing, from the fragments the intimations of the whole, which, as we should know, is the real name for the holy.” --Joe Napora, Small Press Review

“These poems require that you return to them, not to struggle with obscure meanings, but to enjoy the voice of Gary David singing to the world.” --Linda Hasselstrom

"I hear the anger, disgust, disillusionment all carried by the jazz riff line. This is clear, powerful writing! I think ole Walt is watching and quite happy that someone is kicking up the dust down here." --Judy Platz

"With beauty, humor, and grit, Gary David’s powerful poetry teaches us the lessons of American History that we have either never learned, or the History we’re trying so desperately to forget.” --Maggie Jaffe

"Gary David emerges as a poet of uncommon precision and breadth, and as one who believes wholeheartedly in the promise of poetry's deepest orders to consecrate the individual soul beyond a bio-blasted circumstance." --Ralph LaCharity

“...rooted in place and history, giving us a view of our past and its influence on the present. This work promises to establish him as a major voice in Western writing.” --Gary Holthaus

“...part of the ongoing white side of postcolonial writing, and very exciting." --Jim Cody

" I'm trying to think more complexly about the forms a documentary poetics might take in this early 21st-century day and age, and [Gary's] work helps cast light on some of these concerns... he really bears down on what it means to survive and exist in a specific social and cultural milieu." --Alan Gilbert

“Gary David expands the limits of a form he has been instrumental in creating--the verse documentary. At a time when poetry flounders, and historiography is at war over old grounds, his work may well be the light of the future.”--Edward Dorn



MusicThe Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Walsh, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Santana, Jethro Tull, Willie Nelson, Robert Johnson, BB King, John McLaughlin, Ravi Shankar, Frank Zappa, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Winter, Keith Jarrett, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, The Allman Brothers, Django Reinhardt, Beethoven, ZZ Top, Balinese gamelan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Christian, Jeff Beck, Miles Davis, Bach, Coltrane, Mozart, Jonny Lang
MoviesThe Sheltering Sky, Il Postino, Dead Poet Society, Finding Forrester, The English Patient, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Midnight Cowboy, The Border, The Graduate, Easy Rider, The Seventh Seal, Dances With Wolves,(for Dakota, not Costner), Blazing Saddles, Sleeper, Thunderheart, Koyanisqatsi, A Love Song For Bobby Long
TelevisionMostly not. Sometimes the Colbert Report when I need a chuckle. Ocassionally History Channel or National Geo.
Books

Influential poets: Dante, John Donne, Percy Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, HD, Hart Crane, Dylan Thomas, Pablo Neruda, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Ed Dorn, Thomas McGrath, Clayton Eshleman, margareta waterman, Robert Edwards, Dale Jacobson

Influential novelists: Hermann Hesse, Henry Miller, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, Jack Kerouac, Paul Metcalf, Paul Bowles, Leslie Silko

Influential nonfiction writers: Mircea Eliade, C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, Barry Fell, E.A. Wallis Budge, Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, Adrian Gilbert, Andrew Collins, Barbara Hand Clow, David Hatcher Childress

Influential sacred texts: Tibetan Book of the Dead, Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Bible (I grew up Methodist, after all), The Poetic Edda, The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, Black Elk Speaks, Book of the Hopi



NOTE ON SLIDE SHOW

Looking at old photos of myself, I regretfully realize that very few of them actually capture, as they say, my essence. I appear mostly as a blur, a shadow, a cipher, a simulacrum. I guess it's my karma. And it's the very opposite of the documentary nature of the cult of personality. Anyway, this is MY life.

2 Samuel 14:14 "For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him."
HeroesThose who never made it but deserved to.

     Gary A. David's Details
Status:Married
Here for:Networking
Orientation:Straight
Body type:5' 11"
Zodiac Sign:Libra
Smoke / Drink:No / Yes
Children:Proud parent
Education:Grad / professional school
Occupation:writer, musician

   Gary A. David's Networking
Publishing - Writer - Non-fiction
nonfiction re. the American West, Native American, alternative history, mysterious anomalies, archaeology, aracheoastromomy; also a land-based poet



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About me:
CONFABULUM VITAE

My non-confessional stance notwithstanding, I countenance the following personae: erudite rube, regionalist by choice, provincial by penury, lone lobo, lowbrow Ohioan turned high desert rat, first of birth-family to graduate secondary school--sole member to matriculate (B.A. Kent State, M.A. University of Colorado), refugee from academia, ex-adjunct instructor, online editor/publisher/webmaster, poeta non grata, factotum ex libris, iconoclastic iconographer, rock art critic, Anasazi ruins rambler, mercenary musician, guitarist/vocalist barking amped blues for Buddha, journeyman in the Bardo profundo.

For over three decades I have worked as a wayward wordsmith. Volumes published: Eye of the Phoenix (divagations in the mirages of the Southwest), The Orion Zone (true stories of Hopi star cities), Tierra Zia (lines & petroglyphs from New Mexico), Divining the Eagle's Vision (lyric verse of the High Plains), A Log of Deadwood (postmodern gold rush epic), The Possibilities of Blue Sky (callow Dakota poems), several self-inflicted chapbooks.

My residences or sojourns have included: Boulder, Santa Fe, Rapid City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Lawrence (Kansas). During the past fourteen years I have lived with my wife, daughter, and two cats in decreasingly rural northern Arizona.

~Websites~
The Orion Zone: http://www.theorionzone.com

Blog: http://theorionzone.blogspot.com
Island Hills Books: http://islandhills.tripod.com
facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1081596342

To Play these YouTube videos, please pause the song "Light at the End of the Tunnel" above and to the left. Thank you.

STAR VISIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

The nonfiction book "The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cities of the American Southwest" and its sequel "Eye of the Phoenix: Mysterious Visions and Secrets of the Americna Southwest" both describe the pattern of ancient Hopi villages that reflect all the stars in the constellation Orion. As above, so below. For more info, go to www.theorionzone.com



THE ORION ZONE
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Jul 5 2008 1:20 PM

Thayenga





Jun 23 2008 7:29 AM

Beauty of Age
Toren





Jun 21 2008 9:55 PM

Thayenga





Jun 17 2008 8:13 AM

Greetings, my dear Friend Gary.

Stopping to wish you a

tuesday

May it be filled with much Love, many Smiles and Hugs.

Always remember how special you are.
:)

<>-<>May Grandfather Walk With You This Day<>-<>

:) Thayenga
Marla





Jun 16 2008 8:58 PM

Thank you so much for adding me Gary! I love to read your blogs in the UFO Magazine website.
Latasomi





Jun 7 2008 9:49 AM

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Friendship is the mind's readiness,
The heart's willingness
and the life's oneness.
~ Sri Chinmoy


Light, Love and Best to you, Gary. Your MySpace page must have grown. I'm off to explore your website. Peace ~L

Roy Lohr





Jun 5 2008 4:08 PM

Hi Gary
It's been awhile. I've enjoyed getting to know Jack. What are you up to these days? Any new books coming our way?

I've got some interesting revelations coming about the Crystal Skull, that connects the Maya, authors of the books in the Bible, and the Egyptians. There's a blog about it on my profile.

Blessings from Truth or Consequences
Adam the Last1 madA eht 1tsaL





May 26 2008 3:52 AM

Hey Gary you should stop by my page sometime and check out the debate Ive been having at the bottom of my blog thats at the top of my page. I think youll enjoy it immensely, it has to do with religion vs. spirituality, the God enigma, what is truth and where to find it, and anything else related.
Well enjoy, take care, Adam
Thayenga





May 23 2008 9:39 AM

O'siyo my dear Friend Gary.


Two Wolves

Stopping to invite you to >>>>>>>

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Weekend

Let this Friday be the beginning of a fabulous weekend.


Sending you much Love, many Hugs and Smiles

<>-<>May Grandfather Walk With You This Day<>-<>

:) Thayenga
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May 22 2008 11:59 AM

Gary,

Thank-you so much for being our friend, your book, The Orion Zone sounds fascinating, We definately will pick up a copy and would love to have you as a guest on our show to talk about it sometime! Have a great and blessed Memorial Day Weekend!

Patrick & Sandi
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May 18 2008 11:47 AM

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May 17 2008 11:57 PM

Fate magazine gives your new book a good review.
Shadows in the Dark





May 16 2008 7:17 PM

Shadows in the Dark
Thayenga





May 14 2008 11:02 AM

Greetings my dear Friend Gary.

Hope all is well on your side of Earth.
:)

BeautyOfEarth

Have a Happy Hump Day!!
Much Love, many Smiles and Hugs

<>-<>Creator's Blessings<>-<>

:) Thayenga
JON HERMYS





May 10 2008 11:05 PM

Pray they don't find you!
http://vids. myspace. com/index. cfm?fuseaction=vids. individual&videoid=19562484
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May 3 2008 9:58 AM

Hi Gary
Just thought I would let you know this morning I finally figured out how to upload I tunes and was able to listen to your interview with Walter Cruttenden. It was through him that I met you. Hope all is well
Blessings from Truth or Consequences
Latasomi





May 2 2008 1:50 PM

Thanks, Gary, looking forward to gettin