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Actual Air - Hardcover, by Berman David Drag City Books
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- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780965618366
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Drag City
ISBN-10
0965618366
ISBN-13
9780965618366
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6028650
Product Key Features
Book Title
Actual Air
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Some of his book is Ashbery-influenced, while some stanzas recall the Americana of Thomas Lux . . . leagues beyond Jewell's A Night Without Armor, announcing the discovery of great American poetic storytelling by a new generation." -- Publisher's Weekly, " Actual Air is one of the funniest, smartest, and sweetest books of the year, a collection of snapshots colored ecstatically outside the lines. This is the absurd American sublime, poetry that raises the stakes on the everyday and bluffs the blunders." -- GQ, " Actual Air is one of the funniest, smartest, and sweetest books of the year, a collection of snapshots colored ecstatically outside the lines. This is the absurd American sublime, poetry that raises the stakes on the everyday and bluffs the blunders." -- GQ, "[His poems] are full of complex turns and tricks and conceptual hijinks, and yet there's this surface clarity. You're welcomed into the poem." --Billy Collins, "These poems are beautiful, strange, intelligent, and funny . . . It's a book for everyone." --James Tate, "[His poems] are full of complex turns and tricks and conceptual hijinks, and yet there's this surface clarity. You're welcomed into the poem." --Billy Collins, "These poems are beautiful, strange, intelligent, and funny . . . It's a book for everyone." --James Tate, "Some of his book is Ashbery-influenced, while some stanzas recall the Americana of Thomas Lux . . . leagues beyond Jewell's A Night Without Armor, announcing the discovery of great American poetic storytelling by a new generation." -- Publisher's Weekly
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Synopsis
Released in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry (including names that still make waves today like The New Yorker and GQ), David Berman's first (and only) book of poetry was and is a journey though shared and unreliable memory. Uncannily inspired, Berman's poems walk through doors into rooms where where one might hear "I can't remember being born / and no one else can either / even the doctor who I met years later / at a cocktail party" (from "Self-Portrait at 28"), or praise "the interval called hangover / a sadness not co-terminous with hopelessness" (from "Cassette Country") and "that moment when you take off your sunglasses / after a long drive and realize it's earlier / and lighter out than you had accounted for" ("The Charm of 5:30"). At that time, Berman was called a modern-day Wallace Stevens and a next-wave John Ashberry, with his own logic, awareness of pop culture and sensitivity to the details of the post-postmodern world in his poems. Alongside his lyrics to a half-dozen infamous Silver Jews records, Actual Air endeared Berman to lovers of poetry, prose, and music alike. Poet James Tate said it best: "It is a book for everyone." And poet laureate Billy Collins could only add, "This is the voice I've waited so long to hear." The second edition of the hardcover version of Actual Air is limited to 1000 copies. Features of the second edition are: new larger dimensions and enlarged typeface, new dustjacket artwork variant, deluxe cloth boards, updated full-color endpapers, dust-jacket featuring a photo of the artist around the time of publication, and of course the poems that inspired all this fuss in the first place., Back in print for the first time this era is David Berman s Actual Air. Released in paperback in 1999 by the now-defunct Open City and praised everywhere in the then-ascendant print press industry, David Berman s first (and only) book of poetry is a journey though shared and unreliable memory. Features of the second edition are: new larger dimensions and enlarged typeface, new dustjacket artwork variant, deluxe cloth boards, and updated full-colour endpapers.
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