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Joe Brainard: I Remember
Joe Brainard: I Remember in Bloomington, MN
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Joe Brainard's
I Remember
is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain "I remember": "I remember when I thought that if you did anything bad, policemen would put you in jail." Brainard's enduring gem of a book has been issued in various forms over the past thirty years. In 1970, Angel Hair books published the first edition of
, which quickly sold out; he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair,
More I Remember
(1972) and
More I Remember More
(1973), both of which proved as popular as the original. In 1973, the Museum of Modern Art in New York published Brainard's
I Remember Christmas
, a new text for which he also contributed a cover design and four drawings. Excerpts from the Angel Hair editions appeared in
Interview
,
Gay Sunshine
The World
and the
New York Herald
. Then in 1975, Full Court Press issued a revised version collecting all three of the Angel Hair volumes and added new material, using the original title
. This complete edition is prefaced by poet and translator Ron Padgett.
I Remember
is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain "I remember": "I remember when I thought that if you did anything bad, policemen would put you in jail." Brainard's enduring gem of a book has been issued in various forms over the past thirty years. In 1970, Angel Hair books published the first edition of
, which quickly sold out; he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair,
More I Remember
(1972) and
More I Remember More
(1973), both of which proved as popular as the original. In 1973, the Museum of Modern Art in New York published Brainard's
I Remember Christmas
, a new text for which he also contributed a cover design and four drawings. Excerpts from the Angel Hair editions appeared in
Interview
,
Gay Sunshine
The World
and the
New York Herald
. Then in 1975, Full Court Press issued a revised version collecting all three of the Angel Hair volumes and added new material, using the original title
. This complete edition is prefaced by poet and translator Ron Padgett.
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