Brainard, Joe. (1941 - 1994) & Elmslie, Kenward. (1929-2022). "Pay Dirt". Flint, Michigan: Bamberger Books. 1992. First.
Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), [128] pages, in stiff, illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Hilarious (and sometimes raunchy) retrospective of comics created over a quarter century by artist Joe Brainard and his life partner, the poet Kenward Elmslie. This is the trade edition; there was also a signed and lettered limited edition.
Frank Bidart 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.
Brainard, Joe. (1941 - 1994) & Elmslie, Kenward. (1929-2022). "Pay Dirt". Flint, Michigan: Bamberger Books. 1992. First.
Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), [128] pages, in stiff, illustrated wrappers (soft cover). Hilarious (and sometimes raunchy) retrospective of comics created over a quarter century by artist Joe Brainard and his life partner, the poet Kenward Elmslie. This is the trade edition; there was also a signed and lettered limited edition.
Frank Bidart 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.