Softcover. 4to. 76pp. Printed rectos only. Staple bound, covers toned, near fine. Text printed entirely in the authors' holograph facsimile, each page is devoted to a different topic (school, art, ambition, money, conceit) with each artist writing a one or two sentence response, some funny, some heartfelt, some informative.
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 19652016. 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. 4to. 76pp. Printed rectos only. Staple bound, covers toned, near fine. Text printed entirely in the authors' holograph facsimile, each page is devoted to a different topic (school, art, ambition, money, conceit) with each artist writing a one or two sentence response, some funny, some heartfelt, some informative.
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 19652016. 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.