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Title: Actual Air: Poems by David Berman ISBN: 1-890447-04-8 Publisher: Open City Books Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Hilarious and insightful.
Comment: Poetry is a medium normally associated with people so out of touch with reality that their main concerns are love, death, and the generally intangible. Berman understands this, and has published a book of remarkably down-to-earth yet surreal poetry that seems more comfortable concerning itself with the mundane. His "Self-Portrait At 28" is the central opus, a sprawling epic of high-school heavy metal T-shirts, space travel, technological nervous breakdowns, hills, psychedelia, and dogs that still somehow manages to be bizarrely moving. It's probably a cliché to say that it's a book "for everyone", but nevertheless, it's an apt term for a book so full of thought and imagination. Music fans, check the Silver Jews too, especially the "American Water" record.
Rating: 4
Summary: lost and found again
Comment: A copy of this book is bumping along the bottom of the Colorado River heading toward Lake Mead. But before it went overboard: One afternoon in camp, while someone was cooking dinner, I was reading the Lincoln poem out loud to another guy on the trip. By the time I read a third selection from the book (at my friend's request) five or six other people had gathered around and were listening. I don't think any of us read poetry for recreation, but this book resonates, we could all tell that; and it was written with the ambition of being human, and as Grand as the Canyon. It ticks me off that this review protocal forces me to assign a number of stars. You can't count stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Actual Brilliance
Comment: This is my favorite book of poems. He uses interesting language by allowing his words to speak in a different way. He has an interesting view of the world "It had been four days of no weather as if nature had conceded its genius to the indoors."
It is the kind of book that you can keep reading on any day.
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Title:American Water ASIN: B00000AG9W Publisher: Drag City Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.98 |
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Title:Natural Bridge ASIN: B0000019QS Publisher: Drag City Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.98 |
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Title: Open City 7: The Rubbed Away Girl by Mary Gaitskill, Bliss Broyard, Sam Lipsyte, David Berman, Steve Malkmus, Will Oldham, Victor Pelevin, Hal Sirowitz, Elizabeth Macklin, Jimmy Raskin ISBN: 1890447188 Publisher: Open City Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title:Starlite Walker ASIN: B0000019QA Publisher: Drag City Pub. Date: 24 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.98 |
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Title:Bright Flight ASIN: B00005QXCM Publisher: Drag City Pub. Date: 20 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.98 |
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