3/26/2023 0 Comments Slacker gifI worked from five o’clock to midnight four or five days a week. ![]() ![]() I had a job at an unprosperous cafe on Great Jones Street. I first read it at twenty in 2005 in New York City. Stammering out something foolish and leaving disappointed.Īctual Air is canonical if you’re cool. I wouldn’t want to stand there waiting for an anointing that didn’t come. I wouldn’t want to have to tangle with my admiration up close. I never met him and that’s probably for the best. A pool party? All the fragile souls, the people who got it, in bikinis and trunks, with Berman at the grill.īut anyway. Thompson died, my dad, who loved him, said, “It’s especially hard because you thought that someday you’d meet up with him and all the people who got it.” With Berman, I did sort of think that. His work seemed to be saying that the world is impossible, yes, but you didn’t have to take it too seriously. Being alive is fucking impossible! Berman knew this but still saw beauty and strangeness and humor, too. I love your amethyst eyes and your Protestant thighs.Īnd of course: All water is classic water.īerman’s great topic was the impossibility of being alive. You can’t change the feeling, but you can change the feeling about the feeling. I think of his lines weekly, maybe daily. I knew Berman’s poetry, specifically his 1999 collection Actual Air, before I knew his music, but both became deeply important to me. I was in awe of him, and like so many people today, I am crushed. The phrase national grief is Berman-esque, though municipal grief or federal grief would be even better. The poet and front man of the Silver Jews was fifty-two. Pour another gallon into the bucket of our national grief, David Berman is gone.
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