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The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard: A Library of America Special Publication

By (author) Joe Brainard, Edited by Ron Padgett, Foreword by Paul Auster

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Discover the works of Joe Brainard, whose quirky style earned him a reputation as a â€œrecognizable American phenomenonâ€ and â€œoddball classicistâ€â€”with a foreword by 4321 author Paul Auster (John Ashbery) 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 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. â€œBrainard disarms us with the seemingly tossed-off, spontaneous nature of his writing and his stubborn refusal to accede to the pieties of self-importance,â€ writes Paul Auster in the introduction to this collection. â€œThese 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limits.â€ Â Assembled by the authorâ€™s longtime friend and biographer Ron Padgett and including fourteen previously unpublished works, here is a fresh and affordable way to rediscover a unique American artist.

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