Research Catalog

Title

The collected writings of Joe Brainard / introduction by Paul Auster ; Ron Padgett, editor.

Author

Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994.

Publication

[New York, N.Y.] : Library of America, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Padgett, Ron, 1942-
• Auster, Paul, 1947-

Description

xxviii, 541 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. 2012

Alternative Title

Works. 2012

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Centro para la Promoción de la Conservación del Suelo y del Agua Buenos Aires
• Poetry
• Memory
• Artists > United States > Biography
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
• United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970
• Gay men > Poetry
• Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 > Childhood and youth

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Editor's preface / by Ron Padgett -- Introduction / by Paul Auster -- I remember -- Self-portrait. Self-portrait on Christmas night -- Back in Tulsa again -- Saturday July 21st 1962 -- Diary Aug. 4th-15th -- The China Sea -- Picnic or yonder comes the blue -- A true story -- I like ["A happy glory to sky!"] -- I like ["I Joe"] -- The people -- Andy Warhol : Andy do it -- The man -- Marge -- Johnny -- Nancy ["It was coffee time"] -- Nancy ["Nancy was always handing me"] -- May dye -- Colgate dental cream -- Brunswick stew -- Sick art -- Sunday, July the 30th, 1964 -- Saturday, December the 11th, 1965 -- Van Gogh -- People of the world : relax! -- Ron Padgett -- January 26th, 1967 -- Pat -- August 29th, 1967 -- Jamaica 1968 -- What is money? -- Little-known facts about people -- Diary 1969 -- Diary 1969 (continued) -- Sex -- A special diary -- Some drawings of some notes to myself -- Death -- Autobiography -- Some train notes -- Diary 1970-71 -- December 22, 1970 -- 1970 -- Queer bars -- Art -- Short story -- Life ["When I stop and think"] -- Rim of the desert -- How to be alone again -- Bolinas Journal -- Wednesday, July 7th, 1971 -- Selections from "Vermont journal : 1971" -- Fear -- White spots -- My favorite quotations -- Selections from "Self-portrait : 1971" -- from N.Y.C. journals : 1971-1972 -- Friday, June 16th, 1972 -- Tuesday, July 11th, 1972 -- What I did this summer -- Washington D.C. journal 1972 -- The gay way -- Matches -- Self-portrait (as a writer) if I was old and fat and wore hats -- Dirty prose -- Fantastic dream I had last night! -- If -- The friendly way -- The friendly way (continued) -- If I was God -- Ponder this -- Grandmother -- Night -- Neck -- 30 one-liners -- The cigarette book -- Poem ["Sometimes"] -- No story -- Journals -- Before I die -- Right now -- Life ["The life of a human being is"] -- Stoned again -- A depressing thought -- Thirty -- Ten imaginary still lifes -- from 29 Mini-essays -- The outer banks -- Towards a better life (eleven exercises) -- Twenty-three mini-essays -- Religion -- Out in the Hamptons -- Nothing to write home about -- A state of the flowers report -- Jimmy Schuyler : a portrait -- January 13th -- Interviews. The Joe Brainard interview / by Tim Dlugos -- An interview with Joe Brainard / by Anne Waldman.

ISBN

• 9781598531497
• 1598531492

LCCN

^^2011928610

OCLC

• 731911805
• SCSB-10940500

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library