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Fun Being Me: Poems Paperback – September 1, 2006

by Jack Wiler (Author)
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Four years ago, Jack Wiler was hospitalized with AIDS. This book is his attempt to talk about what it is to die and live again. The collection is far more than his struggle with the AIDS virus. Wiler aims for the hard truth as he writes about the world, money, jobs, love, sex, and death. As Wiler says, “It can be loud and it can be soft but it is never quiet.”
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  1. Print length
    140 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    CavanKerry Press
  4. Publication date
    September 1, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.6 x 9.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0972304592
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0972304597
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  • Jenna Rapach
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read for anyone!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2020
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    As the path of life shifted for Jack Wiler when he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, he began to face many challenges. In 2006, Wiler wrote the book, Fun Being Me, wanting to share with his readers his journey of understanding the universe and its challenges. Aside from the struggle he faced with his health, his struggles with money, the world, his career, and his relationships with women, God, and death all are mentioned in Fun Being Me. Wiler also connects with readers, as if he were personally talking to them. A vast amount of cursing, slang, and street language is used throughout the whole book. In each of the five parts of Fun Being Me, Wiler goes beyond a reader’s expectation to deliver the raw truth about living life to the fullest, despite dealing with sickness, death and other physical and emotional issues of his own. Not only does this book express to us that we are not alone, but it also gives us the courage to get through any struggle that we might be experiencing.
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  • jason
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    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2020
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    In Fun Being Me, Jack Wiler speaks about the progression of his illness (HIV/AIDS), how to live a positive life, but also how to come to an acceptance of death. In “Getting Better,” Wiler states, “What I needed was patience / and prayer and food and / the knowledge I would / always be sick.” “Getting Better” for Wiler is to be able to acknowledge that life is full of illness and lots of hardships, but he doesn’t stop living. He has a lot of perseverance and fights for a normal life. Wiler goes on to explain that even though he was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, everyone in the world is sick. He writes, “Every day the body / a battleground: / germs, viruses, microbes / without measure / lining up to assault / the corrupt and doomed / husk of flesh.” Wiler knows that each day is a battle for everyone. Every person has their own illness: “Each day we pick up our / burdens knowing we / walk hand in hand with death.”
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  • Lillian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good read!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2020
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    Fun Being Me by Jack Wiler was a very fine collection. His poems “Getting Better,” “Letter to My Nieces on Their Birthdays,” “What I Learned When I Was Sick” have shown a variety of emotions while showing the pain, love and growth he had to get through. The book in its entirety has a dark and very discouraging outlook on life, but to keep into perspective, the author had gone through a traumatic event in his life. I like that he wrote from the perspective he was at during that time because it was very relatable to generations. As a psychology major, there are so many others out there with Wiler’s same story, but do not know how to express what they are going through. It's refreshing to read this and see that anyone going through this same situation, is not alone. His therapy is poetry and he showed the good and the bad that can come up in life. This book is highly recommended to especially the younger generation coming up.
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  • Nicholas Firestone
    4.0 out of 5 stars A book for everyone
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2020
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    It becomes apparent early on in Fun Being Me, that Jack Wiler uses common language and writes his poems in the way he and most New Yorkers talk: directly and unapologetically. This type of vernacular is the kind of language that would be heard on the street, lots of cursing, large amounts of slang, and pointing out shortcomings of the world around him. While that may be a deterrent for some, it adds local culture and authenticity to the collection. Moreover, by avoiding flowery language Fun Being Me does not appear daunting to people who are unfamiliar with poetry or who typically are not a fan of the stereotypical image of poetry, which is to say a work using high-brow language and ornate imagery to illustrate some sort of high moral message. Wiler opts instead to make it relatable to a wider audience and aims at showing the audience what the world looks like when life pins him down. That said Fun Being Me does have literary merit as well. The book takes a deep dive into the state of mind of a man who has been having a rough go of it. Themes of faith, loneliness, companionship, authority, and most importantly uncontrollability are all addressed across the five parts of the book. In short, Fun Being Me by Jack Wiler is a poetry book that views the world in a way most do not or can’t and achieves mass appeal while retaining literary merit.
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  • Maureen Tanko
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2020
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    Fun Being Me is an interesting collection in which Jack Wiler says things other people don't. Some of the beauty of his work is his ability to just say things like they are, plain and simple. How what he says may be received by others doesn't seem to matter to him, and it makes for some interesting ideas and stories. He talks about many things including mortality, money, sex, and just about any other aspect of life one can think about while doing it in his own Jack Wiler sort of manner. He’s a blue-collar man in a battle with himself and the world all at the same time. It's an emotional struggle with anger and sadness but with that comes a certain wisdom and understanding that few people can achieve. This book shows especially well the world of a man on his last legs and how he struggles to understand the universe and the meaning of God to him.
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  • Caitlin Diaz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Collection !
    Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2020
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    Poet Jack Wiler’s collection of poems, Fun Being Me, was his way to take unthinkable topics, such as the struggles of life and death, and have them cross readers’ minds in a way they have not before. By changing the way these topics were thought about, Wiler makes them more understandable and tangible. Rather than running from these themes, he encourages us, the readers, to run towards them by openly sharing experiences from his life and those that he knew. Wiler was hoping to open not only people’s minds but also their hearts to be able to speak about how they are feeling no matter the subject. He wanted these subjects to become widespread and be brought up in everyday living more than they already are. In the words of Jack Wiler, “It can be loud and it can be soft but it is never quiet.”
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