Joe Brainard's art /

"Joe Brainard's work occupies the literal margins of New York School poetry, while also figuratively influencing its aesthetic margins, shaping the School from both within and without. Brainard was not only an important illustrator and friend to many New York School poets, he was also a re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994 (Author)
Other Authors:	Shamma, Yasmine, 1983- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Brainard, Joe, > 1942-1994 > Criticism and interpretation. Arts, American > 20th century > History and criticism. Experimental poetry, American > 20th century > History and criticism. Collage, American > 20th century > History and criticism. Artistic collaboration > United States > 20th century > History. New York school of art. Illustrated works.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Notes on contributors
Introduction : Joe Brainard's collage aesthetic / Yasmine Shamma
Joe, a funny nickname / Alice Notley
Joe Brainard : tenderness and gristle / Anne Waldman
Smoking Joe / John Brainard
Artist statement / John Ashbery
Vulnerability in Joe Brainard's work / Edmund Berrigan
Joe Brainard : the Madonna of the future / Nathan Kernan
Boom : Joe Brainard 1961-1963 / Ron Padgett
Joe Brainard's still-life poetics / Jess Cotton
"Men with a pair of scissors" : Joe Brainard and John Ashbery's eclecticism / Rona Cran
The friendly way : crafting community in Joe Brainard's poetry / Brian Glavey
Codes and wounds : exposure and inviolability in the work of Joe Brainard and Frank Bidart / Anna Smaill
I wonder : in dialogue, on dialogue / Andrew Epstein and Andy Fitch
"Fuck work" : the reciprocity of labor and pleasure in Joe Brainard's writing / Nick Sturm
A queer poetics of the normal : Joe Brainard, clothing, and girlish femininity / Kimberly Lamm
The memoir of disappearance : Joe Brainard's "Bolinas Journal" / Timothy Keane
Afterword / Marjorie Perloff
Index.