Plain Sight
Poetry | Soft cover | 106 pages
Plain Sight is an exquisite book of poems by David Bergman, “a post-modern master of the lyric narrative poem,” according to Daniel Mark Epstein. Now in his 70s, and having lived with Parkinson’s for eight years, Bergman offers up poems about love, chronic illness, friendship and aging parents that constantly surprise us in their twists and turns, their verbal brilliance, and their wit. Ultimately, Plain Sight is a deep celebration of life in all of its pain and grace.
About the Author
David Bergman is the author of three books of poetry, Cracking the Code, which won the George Elliston Poetry Prize, Heroic Measures and The Fortunate Light. He is the author of the studies The Poetry of Disturbance: The Discomforts of Post-War American Poetry as well as Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Poetry. His poetry won the 2022 Passager Poetry Contest and has appeared in such journals as The American Scholar, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, and The Yale Review.
It seems incomprehensible that we have had to wait twenty-five years for another full-length collection from David Bergman. Plain Sight is a priceless, heart-catching Trojan Hoard of poetic invention. Mordant, elegiac, often hilarious, Bergman’s voice combines the seemingly effortless plainsong of Whitman, Auden, and Marianne Boruch with the hard-won knowledge that Time erodes – and surprises – us all. To paraphrase the poet, these poems are acts of grace able to lift and move the world.
James Magruder, author of Vamp Until Ready
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Plain Sight by David Bergman
Paperback: 106 pages
Publisher: Passager Books
ISBN 978-1-7355148-7-1
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.315 x 9 inches
$18
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