About (Biography)
Born and raised in Orange County, California, while attending Long Beach City College David Dannov eventually moved to Long Beach and enrolled into the creative writing department at CSULB; Gerald Locklin was one of his professors, whom he still keeps in contact to this day.
Dannov was accepted into two MFA programs but decided to drop both and focus on the writing. He does not believe the academic circle should be holding all the membership cards regarding publishing connections.
He was the bass player, singer, songwriter for a band called, Fossil Face that played in Long Beach for three years. A few songs from their album, Blackwood Universe, were payed on KPFK, on Barry Smolin's The Music Never Stops,
www.myspace.com/fossilface
A few songs from his album Circus Freak, The Last American, was also played on Kpfk. The song Drustore Mind was written by Dan Fante.
www.myspace.com/circusfreak2007
David coupled with a Southern woman from Mississippi for nine years, married for five of those years; she was an elementary teacher in Downey.
He was also in a seven year relationship with a woman from Whittier. They lived in Long Beach and San Diego.
Currently single David has traveled through the States and Europe, Canada, Egypt, and Thailand.
Publishers have a difficult time labeling Dannov's work, particularly
his poetry because it's often a mix of personal essay with poetry, or poetry with personal essay. He does not rhyme. He leaves that tombstone for the cemetery. Think Bill Hicks mixed with Bukowski, Henry Miller, and Eddie Izzard. Some of his poems read like stories, some are snapshots, some are rants, some are thoughts and feelings. Some just drop onto the page like a bucket of paint.
He's in the process of re writing many of his memoirs into literary novels that combines magic realism with dirty realism; his first example of this is his novel, Enkidu, about a young man who marries at too young of an age and transforms into a beast.
He's also written a middle-grade urban fantasy novel under a different name. Some big names were associated with a publishing contract for this book. But a million was backed out due to the publisher's touch screen technology not working out.
He's been featured by Chiron Review, and published by Pearl, Edit Red, Tears in the Fence, Clinicality Press, Black Cross Magazine, Cerburus, and many other small press magazines. His poem entitled, There are Canyons and Valleys in the Skin of an Orange won the Lucid Mood Poetry Contest in 2004. And two chapters from his novel Awake were published in a Paul krassner book entitled, Mushrooms and Other Highs, Toad Slime to Ectacy.
His favorite authors are Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante, Dante Fante, Joseph Campbell, and Herman Hess, with an admiration for Bill Hicks and Eddie Izzard and Terrence McKenna and George Carlin and Robert Williams and R. Crumb and the painters from the Beinart site (beinart.org), and so many authors and artists he just doesn't have time to list.
Dannov has also written 7 full length poetry manuscripts each about 200 to 350 pages a piece.
If you'd like to see some of Dannov's old paintings and illustrations and clay heads and white board drawings he'd created while substituting in L.A. and Long Beach schools, go to www.myspace.com/circusfreak35
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This is a featured Dannov reading in 2007 at Acres of Books: . . .
Entitled:
The Drunk Poet Uncensored 1
Part !:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou8ZXVZWzug
The Drunk Poet Uncensored 2
Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx5XHlmnYgI&feature=related
Dannov's poetry books include,
1) It's the Shaking of the Ground that
Crumbles Walls but Doesn't Crumble
Trees
2) The Crack in the Sidewalk Speaks
3) Wanted: Dead or Alive
4) Civilization is a Stop Sign in the Middle
of a Desert
5) Inhuman
6) Big Brother Cumming all over this
Godforsaken Town
7) Notes of an Ordinary Man Held
Captive in an Alien World
His novels include
1) "Waiter!"
2) Enkidu
3) The Suburban Rose
4) Awake
5) The Script
6) 1928 Florida Street
Middle grade novels:
1) Natasha and the Tree
2) (novella) McManland
Short story manuscript
1) Shaman Stew
