Softcover. Small 4to. 176 pp. Some toning and light rubbing to its striking gingham pattern wrappers, small stains to the rear, else fine. A collection of stories, poems, and plays by Kenward Elmslie with illustrations by Joe Brainard, with whom he had an extended personal relationship until Brainard's death. Ownership of Frank Bidart to the half title.

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.