She has been a journalist, English teacher, communication/media specialist, and freelance writer. Her prize-winning chapbook, Ancient Music, was published in 2000 by Pecan Grove Press and her full-length poetry collection, Trapped in Amber, appeared in 2005 from Connecticut River Press. Geri Radacsi is the author of two previous collections of poetry. The result of Geri Radacsi’s lively studies is poetry with a particular candor and perspicacity and passion.” What she draws out of the visible in turn draws her out. Margaret Gibson is also enthusiastic: “A S haker box, a p ainting by Grant Wood or Monet or DaVinci, a Native American rock painting, a tiger on a postcard sent by a former lover: such are the prompts that begin this poet’s study of the visual. What I admire most is the intelligence at the core of each an intelligence clarified by the poet’s full-throated, sensuously-engaged imagination.” Rather, they are quiet, peaceful, luminious. This joyful and refreshing attitude engages us first for these poems, like all the best, are not showy, not loudly dramatic, and so honest they never manipulate the reader for effect. The attitude Radacsi’s speaker most frequently adopts is that of beguiled wonderment, sometimes bemused wonderment. Nearly, but not quite, because balanced throughout these ekphrastic yet personal lyrics is the “sweet unsalvageable,” a recognition that loss, heartache, disappointment and their eventual transformation into beauty are at the very heart of the human endeavor.”Īnd this from Gray Jacobik: “Reading the poems in Geri Radacsi’s third collection, Tightrope Walker, is like repeatedly slicing into one’s very first orange: there’s rich color, juiciness, and sweetness in each. By weaving wisdom into a complex music of flutes, clarinets, dance and legend, Radacsi’s memorable poems in Tightrope Walker are initially embedded in the mind’s eye but finally reside in the heart.” Ravi Shankar writes as follows: “Impelled by such maestros as Cezanne, Einstein, and Dorothea Lange, Geri Radacsi’s Tightrope Walker strides an amplitude strung between space and ground, discovering in each tentative step forward a verbal abundance that nearly reconciles self and world. Of this new collection Vivian Shipley says, “With an abundance of sensual particulars, Geri Radacsi’s ekphrastic poems draw us into the work of painters as varied as Henri Matisse, Norman Rockwell, and Paul Gauguin.
These new poems are intensely personal and impressionistic, not bound by the confines of their sources, although they also throw new light on a wide variety of artwork. Geri Radacsi’s third poetry collection, Tightrope Walker, is based on works of art.
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