The Charm Of 5:30 Comments
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England.
We're within inches of the perfect distance from the sun,
the sky is blueberries and cream,
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You paint such beautiful visuals that my spirit felt like it was hanging out with you. Thank you
This definitely a prose poetry, I enjoyed much. I love the scenes depicted in there. Good work
David, you have this amazing ability to hopscotch across the markers of anyone's life - so elegantly - non-apologetically bringing things to the front of the reader's mind that have otherwise been all but forgotten. Holding a glass of cola up to the sun to see its red tint, following the path of an ant as he traipse by your lawn chair... easy summer day man... How do you do that? It's so amazing... You know, daydreaming about a pretty girl on the courthouse steps, imagining her going - not to just any drug store - but a brick drug store - who in life hasn't walked into a brick drugstore without thinking about it or letting that memory go any farther than just that... I love your poetry, your mind. I was introduced to classical poetry as a child, quickly falling in love with Emily Dickinson, knowing her tragic story, the deep losses she felt, becoming a hermit in her old age - fearful of society - fearful of loving. I've always said that if I had lived during her day then I would have been knocking on her door every day - non stop until she answered it - just to tell her she's wonderful. You are one of the few poets of my own day whose door I would knock on too...
John, once again you scare me with how much you and I think alike. I agree with everything you said this time!
We got a young poet here - David Berman,28 years old - he's got a real chance to be 29 in a year. I don't want to be too harsh, but this is awfully dull and prosaic. (E. B. - I don't know what the E. stands for, but the B must be Berman.)
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7/18/2025 4:29:16 PM # 1.0.0
interesting that someone would change " But, I kinda liked Clinton" to " Reagan" when posting this here — it's Clinton in the original hardcover edition. originally it's a pretty subtle and very Berman line. interesting
Is this in the recent Drag City hardcover, the one in blue? I think Actual Air came out in paperback first, meadown and glass buildings on the cover, and in that one it's Reagan.