The Collected Writings Of Joe Brainard
by Joe Brainard /
2012 / English / EPUB
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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
An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe
Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind
autobiographical workI Remember
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.
("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
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unpublished works, here is a fresh and affordable way to rediscover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.
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.
