Softcover. 4to, [24] pp, unprinted stapled red card wrappers with printed dust jacket. The uncommon fourth volume of Brainard's series of remembrances. A pristine example in envelope inscribed "Frank Bidart / His Xmas Card," and inscribed on the ffe by William "Bill" Corbett, "To Frank, another and fellow stagehand from the mid-fifties and who I will share these moments to remember no doubt with me, Bill / ,- / -, ?"

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.

Friend and collaborator with Joe Brainard, William Corbett was an American poet, essayist, editor, educator, and publisher, writer-in-residence at MIT and professor at Harvard University. Founder of Pressed Wafer Press, he also edited literary journals and magazines, including Fire Exit and The Boston Eagle.