I Remember: Joe Brainard. This item is unavailable.I Remember: Joe Brainard

‘I Remember is a masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard’s modest little gem will endure.’ Paul Auster

Joe Brainard’s I Remember is envied and admired by writers from Frank O’Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard’s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain ‘I remember’. He began work on his breakthrough piece at only twenty-seven in 1969, and with one stroke he consciously reinvented the genre of memoir. I Remember is now considered a cult classic, and is used as a teaching tool on writing courses around the world.

Published in the UK by Notting Hill Editions forty-two years after its original US publication in 1970, Brainard’s masterpiece is introduced here by Paul Auster, who calls it ‘inexhaustible, one of those rare books that can never be used up’.

Bound in black linen with iridescent foil, this edition is a must-have for any collector.

Joe Brainard was born in Arkansas and moved to New York when he was only 18, where he became a vital presence in the city's art and poetry scenes of the 1960s and 1970s. He died in 1994.