An interview with David Berman

He is David Berman, lead singer of the Silver Jews, former roommate to Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus, and author of an acclaimed and eminently readable first collection of poetry entitled Actual Air (Open City, 1999). He describes his poems as “psychedelic soap operas,” and in them he name-checks such pop cultural icons and brand-name products as Judas Priest, Visine, Woolite, and Elmer of Elmer’s Glue...

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