![Brainard, Joe. (1941-1994) & [Bidart, Frank. (b. 1939)] "Nothing to Write Home About" - INSCRIBED TO FRANK BIDART](http://www.schubertiademusic.com/cdn/shop/files/Brainard25409.jpg?v=1776976794)
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Softcover. 8vo. 55 pp. Inscribed to Frank Bidart, "For Frank with Love (thrice underlined) 'Joe". A fine copy in grey wrappers designed by author, rear cover photograph of Brainard by Chris Cox.
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.
Softcover. 8vo. 55 pp. Inscribed to Frank Bidart, "For Frank with Love (thrice underlined) 'Joe". A fine copy in grey wrappers designed by author, rear cover photograph of Brainard by Chris Cox.
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.