I remember / Joe Brainard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994--Childhood and youth.

Brainard, Joe.

Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994.

United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

Memory.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

176 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Granary Books, 2001.

Summary:

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 I Remember, 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 I Remember. This complete edition is prefaced by poet and translator Ron Padgett.

Notes:

Portions of this work were published as I Remember (1970), I Remember More (1972) and More I Remember More (1973), by Angel Hair Books.

ISBN:

1887123482

OCLC:

45248165