Softcover. 8vo. Stapled wrappers. [16] pp. A reprint of the original 1972 publication, one of 200 copies of this edition, with red paper cover illustration by Joe Brainard described as "a shrunken replica of a coffee-stained copy of the original edition." Inscribed on the title to Frank Bidart, "For Frank with Love (thrice underlined) 'Joe". 

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.