Joe Brainard: I Remember

Joe Brainard: I Remember

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Joe Brainard's <I>I Remember</I> 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>I Remember</I>, which quickly sold out; he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair, <I>More I Remember</I> (1972) and <I>More I Remember More</I> (1973), both of which proved as popular as the original. In 1973, the Museum of Modern Art in New York published Brainard's <I>I Remember Christmas</I>, a new text for which he also contributed a cover design and four drawings. Excerpts from the Angel Hair editions appeared in <I>Interview</I>, <I>Gay Sunshine</I>, <I>The World</I> and the <I>New York Herald</i>. 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>I Remember</I>. This complete edition is prefaced by poet and translator Ron Padgett.