Hardcover. 8vo. 67pp. Yellow boards with colored lettering to front, quarter pink cloth, priinted paper label to spine, magenta end papers, fine. In a protective mylar jacket. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Brainard (letter v) on the limitation page, and including an original signed drawing in an envelope pasted to the verso of the front board.
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.
Hardcover. 8vo. 67pp. Yellow boards with colored lettering to front, quarter pink cloth, priinted paper label to spine, magenta end papers, fine. In a protective mylar jacket. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Brainard (letter v) on the limitation page, and including an original signed drawing in an envelope pasted to the verso of the front board.
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.