Hardcover. 8vo. 541 pp. Blue boards, yellow lettering to spine, fine. Dj is near fine, some minor staining to front, else fine. Includes extensive marginalia and ownership signature to the ffe by poet Frank Bidart. An important copy.

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.