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The collected writings of Joe Brainard / introduction by Paul Auster ; Ron Padgett, editor.
Author
Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994
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Uniform title
Works.
2012
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
[New York, NY] : Library of America, [2012]
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group (USA).
©2012
Description
xxviii, 541 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3552 .R275 2012
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Subject(s)
Gay men
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Poetry
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Authors, American
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20th century
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Biography
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Artists
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United States
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Biography
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Memory
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United States
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Social life and customs
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1945-1970
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Brainard, Joe 1942-1994
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Childhood and youth
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Editor
Padgett, Ron, 1942-
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Writer of preface
Padgett, Ron, 1942-
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Author of introduction
Auster, Paul, 1947-
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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poetry
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Series
Library of America
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Summary note
An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work "I Remember" has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with many other pieces that for the first time present the full range of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit, gathering intimate journals, jottings, stories, one-liners, comic strips, mini-essays, and short plays, many of them available until now only as expensive rarities, if at all. "Brainard disarms us with the seemingly tossed-off, spontaneous nature of his writing and his stubborn refusal to accede to the pieties of self-importance," writes Paul Auster in the introduction to this collection. "These little works . . . are not really about anything so much as what it means to be young, that hopeful, anarchic time when all horizons are open to us and the future appears to be without limits." Assembled by the author's longtime friend and biographer Ron Padgett and including fourteen previously unpublished works.
Notes
"A special publication of the Library of America."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Editor's preface / by Ron Padgett
Introduction / by Paul Auster
I remember
Self-portrait. Self-portrait on Christmas night
Back in Tulsa again
Saturday July 21st 1962
Diary Aug. 4th-15th
The China Sea
Picnic or yonder comes the blue
A true story
I like ["A happy glory to sky!"]
I like ["I Joe"]
The people
Andy Warhol : Andy do it
The man
Marge
Johnny
Nancy ["It was coffee time"]
Nancy ["Nancy was always handing me"]
May dye
Colgate dental cream
Brunswick stew
Sick art
Sunday, July the 30th, 1964
Saturday, December the 11th, 1965
Van Gogh
People of the world : relax!
Ron Padgett
January 26th, 1967
Pat
August 29th, 1967
Jamaica 1968
What is money?
Little-known facts about people
Diary 1969
Diary 1969 (continued)
Sex
A special diary
Some drawings of some notes to myself
Death
Autobiography
Some train notes
Diary 1970-71
December 22, 1970
1970
Queer bars
Art
Short story
Life ["When I stop and think"]
Rim of the desert
How to be alone again
Bolinas Journal
Wednesday, July 7th, 1971
Selections from "Vermont journal : 1971"
Fear
White spots
My favorite quotations
Selections from "Self-portrait : 1971"
from N.Y.C. journals : 1971-1972
Friday, June 16th, 1972
Tuesday, July 11th, 1972
What I did this summer
Washington D.C. journal 1972
The gay way
Matches
Self-portrait (as a writer) if I was old and fat and wore hats
Dirty prose
Fantastic dream I had last night!
If
The friendly way
The friendly way (continued)
If I was God
Ponder this
Grandmother
Night
Neck
30 one-liners
The cigarette book
Poem ["Sometimes"]
No story
Journals
Before I die
Right now
Life ["The life of a human being is"]
Stoned again
A depressing thought
Thirty
Ten imaginary still lifes
from 29 Mini-essays
The outer banks
Towards a better life (eleven exercises)
Twenty-three mini-essays
Religion
Out in the Hamptons
Nothing to write home about
A state of the flowers report
Jimmy Schuyler : a portrait
January 13th
Interviews. The Joe Brainard interview / by Tim Dlugos
An interview with Joe Brainard / by Anne Waldman.
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ISBN
9781598531497
1598531492
9781598532784 ((paperback))
1598532782 ((paperback))
LCCN
2011928610
OCLC
731911805
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