Title: A Gentle Humor to Catch Us
Product review: There is a reason why editors from Maine,Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, Chicago and California have chosen to publish poems from this collection. David Lieberman touches us universally with insight into our humanity through humor, pathos and bathos. He shares with us the feelings of inconsequence and the struggle to discover our worth and our joy, with purpose and an insistant instinct for survival. From the stanza, "yet I have no story/(nothing happened)/& what I've seen/begets a yawn// to a line from a prelude to "Melvin's song", "I trod on the ice, broke through, hi ho...".
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