Joe Brainard: I Remember - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887123482 ISBN 13: 9781887123488

Publisher: Granary Books, 2001

Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery 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": "I remember when I thought that if you did anything bad, policemen would put you in jail." Brainard's enduring gem of a book has been issued in various forms over the past thirty years. In 1970, Angel Hair books published the first edition of I Remember, which quickly sold out; he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair, More I Remember (1972) and More I Remember More (1973), both of which proved as popular as the original. In 1973, the Museum of Modern Art in New York published Brainard's I Remember Christmas, a new text for which he also contributed a cover design and four drawings. Excerpts from the Angel Hair editions appeared in Interview, Gay Sunshine, The World and the New York Herald. Then in 1975, Full Court Press issued a revised version collecting all three of the Angel Hair volumes and added new material, using the original title I Remember. This complete edition is prefaced by poet and translator Ron Padgett.

About the Author:

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.

Review:

A completely original book. -- Edmund White

Each detail seduces and reveals while remaining entirely true to the unsentimental demands of the form itself. -- San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 31, 2001 –Noel Black

...a masterpiece...Joe Brainard’s modest little gem will endure. ...both uproariously funny and deeply moving. -- Paul Auster, 1995

...he had happenend onto something wonderful...Joe’s originality came from the fresh way he looked at things. -- Ron Padgett

...universal appeal. He catalogues...fashion and fads, public events and private fantasies, with such honesty and accuracy and in such abundance... -- The Voice Literary Supplement, --Michael Lally

• Publisher: Granary Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1887123482
• ISBN 13: 9781887123488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Padgett Ron