Joe Brainard: I Remember

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the writing tends to be natural and easy, unforced and uncluttered – writing from the heart, writing from the gut. Sembra un gioco da bambini, sembra banale, ma Joe Brainard è stato il primo (Georges Perec gli ha poi dedicato ‘Je me souviens’). Churchill’s anaphora allows him to conscript his listeners, through the use of both “we” and “shall”—the latter of which, while used interchangeably with “will” in England, connotes obligation, even a sense of a legal contract. Brainard worked at a fever pitch on dozens of pieces simultaneously. As if to highlight the kitsch, the camp, and the love of artifice that so delighted him personally, Brainard chose not to disguise the constituent parts in his assemblage and collage, instead naming works such as "Prell" after the products he had co-opted. Brainard adopted a "no comment" approach to art, allowing whatever meaning accrued in his glued-together worlds to go unexplained. Many collages went untitled, as if the "message" were of no concern and many wound up with provisional titles such as "Good’n Fruity Madonna," reflecting instead the process and materials rather than any will of the artist, reflecting style over content and a refusal on the artist’s part to take the art, or himself, too seriously. The Granary Books edition includes all of the material from the Full Court and Viking Penguin edtions along with a newly written afterword by Ron Padgett.Designed by Amber Phillips, the Granary edition has been available since 2001 with more than 20,000 copies in print. In wrappers, as new.

Papá contó cómo sucedieron las cosas "realmente" y dio al traste con lo que consideraba más valioso de "mi historia". You can probably write forever this way. You might want to set some limits (time; focuses). Or you might not.

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In 1970, Perec met Harry Mathews; Mathews introduced Perec to ideas then circulating in the New York art scene, including Brainard’s “serial autobiography,” which was then on the cusp of publication. The French writer likely never saw Brainard’s book, but tale of its concept—each sentence beginning with the phrase “I remember”—was enough to inspire him. Next month, the fruits of Perec ’s efforts, also titled I Remember , will be published in English for the first time, by David R. Godine. Uno per uno, i cosiddetti libri fondamentali della nostra epoca saranno dimenticati, mentre la piccola, semplice gemma di Joe Brainard è destinata a restare. Paul Auster Remember your successes (unlimited, and remembered after your failures – let’s end on a high, please)

Anaphora can also be a way to encourage metaphor. I suggest N. Scott Momaday’s “ The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee.” I am a feather on the bright sky Smith, Roberta (May 27, 1994). "Joe Brainard, Artist, Theater Set Designer And Poet, Dies at 52". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 18, 2022. I remember when, in high school if you wore green and yellow on Thursday it meant that you were queer. Recordaba ese recuerdo y lo guardaba celosamente. No se lo platicaba a nadie, hasta que un una buena peda, decidí sacarlo a la luz. Una peda de aquellas cuando papá aún podía beber en serio. In korte, heldere stukjes - dikwijls niet meer dan 1 of 2 zinnen - somt Joe Brainard op wat hij zich herinnert. "Ik herinner me" wordt heel het boek door gevolgd door dikwijls herkenbare, soms erg intieme of net heel universele dingen die onze terugblik kleuren.

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En esta obra, Brainard, parte la naranja y la desgaja a mansalva. Se siente debajo de la superficie de las páginas, cierta orquestación, cierto murmullo de aguas que corre veladamente debajo de la tierra que pisamos en sus palabras. I remember when my father would say "Keep your hands out from under the covers" as he said goodnight. But he said it in a nice way. I remember when I had a job cleaning out an old man's apartment who had died. Among his belongings was a very old photograph of a naked young boy pinned to an old pair of young boy's underwear. For many years he was the choir director at church. He had no family or relatives. 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." the writing tends to be concrete, vivid, specific, e.g., the house that gave you a dime, and elsewhere in Brainard’s poem very light faded blue jeans, ice cubes in the aquarium, giving Aunt Ruby stationery or scarves for special occasions.

I was saying to Bob the other night how easy it would be to live in Bolinas if you were madly in love (a few minutes of silence while we could tell that we were both thinking the same thing) as one of us said “But, of course that could be said about just about any place.” Nice when that happens. Ci vuole un attimo a riannodare il filo, a immergersi nella magia, a lasciarsi prendere e trasportare nell’altrove più bello. La prima cosa che voglio e devo ricordare è che non avevo mai sentito parlare di Joe Brainard fino a quando il mese scorso ho ricevuto in dono questo piccolo gioiello: un doppio regalo, dunque. I remember Frank O'Hara's walk. Light and sassy. With a slight bounce and a slight twist. It was a beautiful walk. Confident. “I don't care.” And sometimes “I know you are looking.”

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Me acuerdo de un niño muy pobre que tenía que ponerse las blusas de su hermana para ir al colegio.” John Ashbery said he was nice—“nice as a person and nice as an artist.” I think it’s fair to say that we don’t have a rich critical vocabulary for nice artists. (And how many are there?) Yet, everyone agrees that Joe Brainard was one. There seems to have been a magnetism in his niceness, so many people came to love him. I Remember is “about everybody else as much as it is about me,” he wrote his friend Anne Waldman. “And that pleases me. I mean, I feel like I am everybody. And it’s a nice feeling. It won’t last. But I am enjoying it while I can.” Part of the pleasure in reading the book, of course, comes in finding your own memories shared by someone else (nice when that happens). Another part of the pleasure comes from listening for the harmonics of the thing, the way that the memories work together and apart, never giving you everything but always giving you something. Joe Brainard remembered a lot of things and will be remembered as a lot of things: foremost as a master of collage and assemblage, and so, by necessity as well as temperament, an obsessive collector of materials and appropriator of images; also as a painter; a poet; and a friend. John Ashbery, in his introduction to Joe Brainard: A Retrospective, says: "Joe Brainard was one of the nicest artists I have ever known. Nice as a person and nice as an artist." I remember when one year in Tulsa by some freak of nature we were invaded by millions of grasshoppers for about three or four days. I remember, downtown, whole sidewalk areas of solid grasshoppers.