Softcover. 4to oblong. 80pp. From a total edition of 750 copies. Text by Elmslie with illustrations by Tisa reproduced in black-and-white and color, including one fold-out color plate. The basis for parts of the recording "Palais Bimbo Lounge Show." Signature-bound in glossy red printed wraps, 9 x 11-7/8 in. With BIMBO DIRT red promotional postcard. Light edge and corner wear, overall very good.
Though unmarked, this copy 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 Elmslie's partner, Joe 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 oblong. 80pp. From a total edition of 750 copies. Text by Elmslie with illustrations by Tisa reproduced in black-and-white and color, including one fold-out color plate. The basis for parts of the recording "Palais Bimbo Lounge Show." Signature-bound in glossy red printed wraps, 9 x 11-7/8 in. With BIMBO DIRT red promotional postcard. Light edge and corner wear, overall very good.
Though unmarked, this copy 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 Elmslie's partner, Joe 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.