Weed Two: PAPERBACK | Actual Air by David Berman

Curated this week by artist and musician, Harrison Haynes.

David Berman is one of my favorite artist/musician/poet people. He died last summer. I first saw this book – his first and only book of poetry – the year it came out, in 1999. I had just moved to New York City and had just started listening to the Silver Jews. The cover photograph is by Roe Etheridge. At the time, all of these things conspired to put me in a big, inspired mood and helped me situate myself creatively. My favorite poem is the first one. It’s called Snow. It has this one line which got lodged indelibly in my brain:

“When it’s snowing, the outdoors seems like a room.” – HH