Side-stapled softcover in stiff illustrated wraps. 4to. [16] pp with images printed to recto only. From a total edition of 350 copies, 200 of which were numbered and offered for sale, 1-100 being signed. The remaining 150 copies were apparently reserved for poet and artist, and numbered accordingly with either a P or an A. This is copy A21, signed by both Creeley and Brainard on the limitation page at rear. Rare, in original envelope stamped  #21. Very fine. 

From the collection of Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016. Perhaps Bidart's most celebrated poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," is partly based on his relationship with Brainard. "The relationship was," as Bidart has said, both "more than friendship and less than a romance." His "In Memory of Joe Brainard" is a profound elegy for his friend who died of AIDS-induced pneumonia in 1994.