Softcover. Illustrated by Joe Brainard. Quarto. [19] pp. Leaves printed rectos only plus illustrated front wrapper. Stapled white pictorial wrappers printed in black. A very good copy with modest tanning at extremities and small creases.
A paean to cigarettes in the form of an artist's book by Joe Brainard. This collection of anecdotes and illustrations dedicated to cigarettes includes: "Cigarette Butt Drawings" by Leger, Stuart Davis, de Kooning and Brainard, photographs and contributions from James Schuyler, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, alongside comics and collage. One of several book works published by The Siamese Banana Press (started by Johnny Stanton) who also printed works by Paul Auster, Anne Waldman, and Tom Veitch.
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. Illustrated by Joe Brainard. Quarto. [19] pp. Leaves printed rectos only plus illustrated front wrapper. Stapled white pictorial wrappers printed in black. A very good copy with modest tanning at extremities and small creases.
A paean to cigarettes in the form of an artist's book by Joe Brainard. This collection of anecdotes and illustrations dedicated to cigarettes includes: "Cigarette Butt Drawings" by Leger, Stuart Davis, de Kooning and Brainard, photographs and contributions from James Schuyler, Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan, alongside comics and collage. One of several book works published by The Siamese Banana Press (started by Johnny Stanton) who also printed works by Paul Auster, Anne Waldman, and Tom Veitch.
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.