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). For the past fourteen years 
I have lived with my wife, daughter, and two cats in decreasingly rural 
northern Arizona. 

Websites 
Island Hills Books: http://islandhills.tripod.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/garydavid
The Orion Zone: www.theorionzone.com
Blog: http://theorionzone.blogspot.com