{"product_id":"25423-ashbery-john-brainard-joe-bidart-frank-the-vermont-notebooks","title":"Ashbery, John. (1927-2017) \u0026 Brainard, Joe. (1942-1994) [Bidart, Frank. (b. 1939)] \"The Vermont Notebooks\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover. Small 4to. 101 pp. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition from this publisher, originally printed by Black Sparrow Press in 1975. \u003c\/span\u003eOwnership signature of Frank Bidart to the ffe. Very fine. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA single long poem by \u003c\/span\u003eAshbery with illustrations by Brainard, exemplifying \"the possible interplay between verbal and visual art. Brainard finds perfect complementary images to reveal further delicate facts and observations throughout\" (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTerence Diggory, Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, 2015\u003c\/span\u003e). Joe Brainard's \"drawing style was virtuosic, equal to all moods and genres, from the important 'suites' of high-contrast black ink drawings, like those in his collaboration with John Ashbery, The Vermont Notebook.\" (Kernan, p. 54).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the collection of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFrank 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 \u003ci\u003eHalf-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. \u003c\/i\u003ePerhaps 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62661036933279,"sku":"25423","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Ashberry25423a.jpg?v=1776967738","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/25423-ashbery-john-brainard-joe-bidart-frank-the-vermont-notebooks","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}