Softcover. 4to. 122 pp. First edition of these collected poems, prose pieces, and diary entries spanning the better part of a decade, including some selections from Brainard's I Remember and a variety of writings first published in "C" Magazine, Angel Hair, and elsewhere. 10'' x 7.25''. Original printed peach wrappers, cover design by Ron Padgett. Royal blue endpapers. A little grubby, with some rubbing to front upper area, some nicks, 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 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. 122 pp. First edition of these collected poems, prose pieces, and diary entries spanning the better part of a decade, including some selections from Brainard's I Remember and a variety of writings first published in "C" Magazine, Angel Hair, and elsewhere. 10'' x 7.25''. Original printed peach wrappers, cover design by Ron Padgett. Royal blue endpapers. A little grubby, with some rubbing to front upper area, some nicks, 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 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.