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Actual Air
Actual Air

Actual Air

12+

POETRY

112 Pages, 6 x 8

Formats: Cloth

Cloth, $29.98 (US $29.98) (CA $39.95)

Publication Date: June 2019

ISBN 9780965618366

Rights: WOR X UK

Drag City (Jun 2019)

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Overview

David Berman's first (and only) book of poetry was and is a journey though shared and unreliable memory. At the 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, this book endeared Berman to lovers of poetry, prose, and music alike. This edition includes larger dimensions and enlarged typeface, a new dustjacket artwork variant, deluxe cloth boards, updated full-color endpapers, and a dust-jacket featuring a photo of the artist around the time of the original publication.

Reviews

"These poems are beautiful, strange, intelligent, and funny . . . It's a book for everyone."  —James Tate

 "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

"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

 "Sophisticated yet accessible"  —New York Times

Author Biography

David Berman is a poet, singer-songwriter, and the former member of the indie-rock band, Silver Jews. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.

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