![[Brainard, Joe. (1942-1994)] Various. [Bidart, Frank. (b. 1939)] "Pressed Wafer 2. Featuring a Tribute to Joe Brainard."](http://www.schubertiademusic.com/cdn/shop/files/25369.jpg?v=1776979035)
Softcover. 8vo. 275 pp. Annual poetry journal issue largely given over to works in tribute to Joe Brainard, by Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Eileen Myles and many others, including paintings, poems, and other texts. The copy of Frank Bidart, with his ownership signature to the title verso. 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.
Softcover. 8vo. 275 pp. Annual poetry journal issue largely given over to works in tribute to Joe Brainard, by Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Eileen Myles and many others, including paintings, poems, and other texts. The copy of Frank Bidart, with his ownership signature to the title verso. 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.