Joe Brainard: I Remember

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sono variazioni… e perché no, le ripetizioni pittoriche di Warhol (Brainard è stato anche artista visuale), e, certo, anche la madeleine proustiana. Brainard adopted a "no comment" approach to art, allowing whatever meaning accrued in his glued-together worlds to go unexplained. His memories are an assortment of pop culture ("I remember 'Love Me Tender,'" "I remember the Liz-Eddit-Debbie scandal") to food ("I remember 'Payday' candy bars and eating the peanuts off first then eating the center part," "I remember 'Spam. La crítica coincide en afirmar que la maravillosa simpleza de este libro hace que sea incomprensible que no se le hubiera ocurrido antes a nadie. They almost serve as writing prompts, or at least memory prompts, which get you thinking about what you remember too.

The song had just been released on Red (Taylor’s Version), the 2021 rerecording of her fourth album, which came out in 2012. I Remember" zeroes in on memories that are impenetrably true to the author, like little declarations of reported fact. John Ashbery, in his introduction to Joe Brainard: A Retrospective, says: "Joe Brainard was one of the nicest artists I have ever known. I remember how all I could do when Brainard was remembering a '50s Oklahoma childhood was myself remembering a '90s Iowa childhood. Recently, his childhood friend Ron Padgett wrote a memoir, published by Coffee House Press, about his friendship with Joe Brainard, about growing up in Oklahoma in the 1950s, and about his and Brainard's pursuit of poetry and art in New York City.

It was a cool early Spring evening but he was wearing only a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.

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 wasn't surprised in the afterword to learn that Brainard first started writing his "I Remember" collection after reading a lot of Gertrude Stein. Com and adding a poem, you represent that you own the copyright to that poem and are granting PoetryNook. The first three lines of the verse are written in simple past, but the fourth shifts to present perfect, foreshadowing the showdown to come between tenses.I had a dream last night of a friend showing it to me recently, and loving not just the reading but the concept. Some guy (I was afraid to look at him) got a hardon and was rubbing it back and forth against my arm.

Estoy convencido de que el sexo ahora es mucho mejor que antes, pero echo de menos las rodillas desolladas. At once intensely personal and strikingly universal, Brainard's I Remember has remained a cult classic ever since (though this magnificent yolk-yellow edition is the first UK publication). There was a slight chance that something might go wrong and that I'd end up with a really giant cock, but I was willing to take that chance. Some of the finest and funniest are his collages and comic strips to which he invited a bevy of poets to contribute quips. In a lengthy 2023 essay in the New York Review of Books, the poet and critic Geoffrey O'Brien wrote that I Remember "revealed [Brainard] as the inventor of an altogether new sort of book.Me parece que, tras la lectura, a muchos le entrarán unas enormes ganas de escribir una lista parecida con sus experiencias. I would make a case for I Remember as one of the twenty or so most important American autobiographies, important for its air of unimportance and for its mingling of cultural bric-a-brac with sexual frankness and self-revelation.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Unfortunately, it feels more lazy than innovative, as Brainard couldn't be troubled to shape his recollections cogently or into a narrative.