Side-stapled softcover, unpaginated, 10 x 8 inches [Vol. 1 &2], 9.75 x 7 inches [Vol. 3]. All very good, near fine, with light rubbing, mild edge wear and toning to wraps. Clean, unmarked interiors. Volumes 2 and 3 with the ownership signature of Frank Bidart to the inside front covers. 

All three volumes of Joe Brainard's experiment in memoir-autobiography, I Remember (I Remember, More I Remember, and More I Remember More), each volume printed in editions of 700/800 copies. Described by Paul Auster as "one of the few totally original books I have ever read", the books chronicle Brainard's childhood in Oklahoma and youth in New York City in single sentences each beginning with "I remember..." 

In May, 1969 Joe Brainard wrote to Anne Waldman, "I am way up these days over a piece I am still writing called 'I Remember.' I feel I am very much like God writing the bible … I also feel that it is about everybody else as much as it is about me. I mean, I feel like I am everybody." (Angel Hair Anthology, p. 576)

All three volumes 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.