{"product_id":"25408-elmslie-kenward-brainard-joe-cover-art-bidart-frank-moving-right-along-signed-to-frank-bidart","title":"Elmslie, Kenward. (1929-2022) [Brainard, Joe. (1941-1994) - COVER ART] [Bidart, Frank. (b. 1939)] \"Moving Right Along\" - SIGNED TO FRANK BIDART","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover. 8vo. 122 pp. Numbered 249 of 250 numbered hardcover copies, this example also signed and inscribed on the half title page, \"For Frank Bidart, 'Giraffe. Giraffe. Beast. Neck. \/ Spots.' All the Best, Kenward Elmslie,\" dated July 25th 1992, Poet's Corner, Vermont, and signed additionally to the following title page. Blue boards, paper label to spine in a very fine jacket designed by Joe Brainard. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA pristine, very fine copy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlmost an unofficial \"Selected Poems 1970-1980\" \u003cem\u003eMoving Right Along\u003c\/em\u003e assembles with \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e then-newer pieces much previously published work from Elmslie's prolific 1970s, including his experimental \"Alphabet Work,\" Communications Equipment,\" and three scenes reprinted from \"City Junket.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKenward Elmslie's poetry and prose is often combined with the graphical work of other artists. A collection of his writing, Motor Disturbance (1971), won the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry in 1971. He was awarded the National Endowment of the Arts Award for Power Plant Sestina (1967) and the Ford Foundation Grant. In 1973 Elmslie began work as editor and publisher of Z Magazine and Z Press, working to promote the work of other New York School artists such as John Ashbery, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, and perhaps most extensively, Joe Brainard. Elmslie s work with graphic artists such as Brainard combined poetry with art to emphasize their interconnectedness; his work in theatre demonstrates his commitment to art as a whole, not only to one medium.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62661005181087,"sku":"25408","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Elmslie25408a.jpg?v=1776967309","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/25408-elmslie-kenward-brainard-joe-cover-art-bidart-frank-moving-right-along-signed-to-frank-bidart","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}