The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard: A Library of America Special Publication Hardcover - 2012
by Joe Brainard; Ron Padgett (Editor); Foreword by Paul Auster
An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work I Remember ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with many other pieces that for the first time present the full range of Brainard's writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit. The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard gathers intimate journals, jottings, stories, one-liners, comic strips, mini-essays, and short plays, many of them available until now only as expensive rarities, if at all. "Brainard disarms us with the seemingly tossed-off, spontaneous nature of his writing and his stubborn refusal to accede to the pieties of self-importance," writes Paul Auster in the introduction to this collection. "These little works . . . are not really about anything so much as what it means to be young, that hopeful, anarchic time when all horizons are open to us and the future appears to be without limits." Assembled by the author's longtime friend and biographer Ron Padgett and including fourteen previously unpublished works, here is a fresh and affordable way to rediscover a unique American artist.
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- Title The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard: A Library of America Special Publication
- Author Joe Brainard; Ron Padgett (Editor); Foreword by Paul Auster
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 450
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Library of America, New York
- Date 2012-03-29
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781598531497 / 1598531492
- Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.4 in (21.59 x 14.48 x 3.56 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects American literature - 20th century
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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