I Remember

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The American artist's much-imitated memoir, described by Paul Auster as one of the few totally original books I have ever read."

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. Brainard's enduring gem of a book has been issued in various forms over the past thirty years. In 1970, Angel Hair books published the first edition of I Remember, which quickly sold out; he 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 in New York 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. Then in 1975, Full Court Press issued a revised version collecting all three of the Angel Hair volumes and added new material, using the original title I Remember. This complete edition is prefaced by poet and translator Ron Padgett.

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  I Remember

  • 2020-05-21
  • - pages
  • Paperback
  • Gallic Books
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  I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage

  • 2019
  • - pages
  • Paperback
  • Lee & Low Books
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  I Remember: Stories by United Methodist Deaconesses and Missionaries

  • 2016-09-30
  • 202 pages
  • Ebook
  • AuthorHouse
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  I Remember

  • 2015-08-12
  • - pages
  • Ebook
  • Lulu Press, Inc

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