Softcover. 4to. [100]pp. Covers fine, very minor shelf wear and discoloration, else fine. Signed by Joe Brainard above his printed name on the introduction to his half of the book. A collection in two parts, the first of which samples different series of Brainard's work that, according to Ashbery in his introduction, "presents us with a lot of ideas of today in a refined, witty, intelligent way that seeks no credit for its refinement, wit or intelligence." The second half focuses on Herm Freeman (Dr. Demoneo) and what Demeyes calls his "Neoneo nontradition of positive rejection of each process." Near 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.