num_pages: 96
description: Poetry. Cover art and design by Joe Brainard. First printed in 1979 using letterpress and handbinding, this second printing is limited to 999 copies and is a digital facsimile of that first edition, 7 inches tall by 5 inches wide (except for updates to the colophon and copyright pages)."TRAIN RIDE, subtitled 'February 18th, 1971: for Joe [Brainard],' is a long poem in the tradition of Herodotus, Goethe, Laurence Sterne, Agatha Christie, &amp; Blaise Cendrars--a poem of the travails &amp; pleasures of travel, truly of the late 20th century in that its verbal events are more internal than 'Out the Window / is / Out to Lunch!!'--one of the results of the developments of industrial capitalism initiated by steam engine and rail-way...Thus we have a great deal of hypothetical &amp; remembered fucking, money, friendship--'amistad'--and, indeed throughout, witty &amp; precise meditation on the act of writing itself. The persona that emerges is the 'poet in the state of surprise' (Apollinaire), a saintly yet human figure, addressing us with wonderful Peruvian 'I'd be a terrific Senator / because I'd love it' ... The 'Our Friends' section is a marvelous catalog of prominence... One could go on cataloging the delights of the one would be wiser to simply urge all who can run &amp; read to take it, with Ted Berrigan, a Great Companion."--Anselm Hollo
language: English
title: Train Ride
titlecomplete: Train Ride
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 67
publisher: Vehicle Editions