The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard

Joe Brainard, Introduction by Paul Auster, Edited by Ron Padgett

ISBN 10: 1598531492 / ISBN 13: 9781598531497

Published by The Library of America, New York, 2012

About this Item

cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., 5 letter name to front free endpaper. else, clean. no text or exterior markings. no bumps, tears, creases. flap price intact. strong binding.; states first printing.; xxviii-541pp., includes many drawings, interviews, journal entries, notes, and more. introduction by paul auster. edited by ron padgett. includes, i remember. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard
• Publisher: The Library of America, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598531492
• ISBN 13: 9781598531497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition /First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art History, U.S.
  • Belle Lettres

About this title

Synopsis

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 ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) 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. The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard gathers 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 Assembled by the author's longtime friend and biographer Ron Padgett and including fourteen previously unpublished works, here is a fresh and affordable way to rediscover a unique American artist.

About the Author

RON PADGETT, editor, is the author of many books of poetry including How To Be Perfect, You Never Know, The Big Something, and Great Balls of Fire, as well as Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard.