I Remember.
Granary Books, 2001. Item #GB_87
ISBN: 9781887123488
4 1/2 x 7 in., 184 pp., perfect bound in wrappers.
Our reprint of this classic was issued in conjunction with the traveling exhibition and catalogue Joe Brainard: A Retrospective. In 1970, Angel Hair Books published the first edition of I Remember—700 copies that quickly sold out. Brainard 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 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. In 1975, Full Court Press issued a revised version, which collected all three of the Angel Hair volumes, the MoMA booklet, and added new material, using the original title I Remember. The most recent edition was published by Viking Penguin in 1994.
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.
<strong><br />●<br /><br /><span><a href="https://www.granarybooks.com/pages/articles/30/list-of-granary-contributors-a-e#brainard" target="_blank">ABOUT JOE BRAINARD</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://www.granarybooks.com/pages/articles/32/list-of-granary-contributors-k-r#padgett" target="_blank">ABOUT RON PADGETT<br /></a><a href="https://www.granarybooks.com/pages/articles/33/list-of-granary-contributors-s-z#winkfield" target="_blank"><br /></a></span>Further reading: </strong><a href="https://www.granarybooks.com/pdfs/iremember_supp.pdf" target="_blank">collected reviews and press</a>, including Ange Mlinko in <em>Shark, </em>Noel Black in <em>San Francisco Bay Guardian Literary Supplement</em>, Christopher Martin in <em>Rain Taxi</em>, Jim Cory in <em>Oyster Boy Review</em>, Jonathan Stampanado in <em>Chicago Review</em>, and Edmund White in <em>Art in America.</em>
Price: $14.95