Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 27.9 x 21.5 cm), [108] pages in side-stapled wrappers. A rare example of this important (if short-lived) collaborative effort, the second issue of the two issues of Brainard's artist periodical devoted to storyless or abstract comics in which Joe Brainard drew the panels and asked other writers to fill in the dialogue, forming both an homage to and a reinterpretation of the comic strip form. The comics here are drawn by Brainard in collaboration with notables of the early 60's New York School of Poetry including John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Dick Gallup, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank Lima, Frank O’Hara, Ron Padgett, Peter Schjeldahl, Jimmy Schuyler, and Tony Towle. Toning, block separated from the rigid paper wrappers, else 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.
Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 27.9 x 21.5 cm), [108] pages in side-stapled wrappers. A rare example of this important (if short-lived) collaborative effort, the second issue of the two issues of Brainard's artist periodical devoted to storyless or abstract comics in which Joe Brainard drew the panels and asked other writers to fill in the dialogue, forming both an homage to and a reinterpretation of the comic strip form. The comics here are drawn by Brainard in collaboration with notables of the early 60's New York School of Poetry including John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, Dick Gallup, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank Lima, Frank O’Hara, Ron Padgett, Peter Schjeldahl, Jimmy Schuyler, and Tony Towle. Toning, block separated from the rigid paper wrappers, else 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.