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ARTIST
BERMAN, DAVID
TITLE
Actual Air
FORMAT
Book
LABEL
DRAG CITY
CATALOG #
DC 198BK
DC 198BK
GENRE
Misc
RELEASE DATE
6/7/2024
"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 (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 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 contemporary of
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. Fans of
Actual Air
, get hard again!"
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