I Remember
Published on 3. July 2025
208 pages
978-1-917092-22-7 (ISBN)
Description
An enduring gem, Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic. Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each beginning with the refrain 'I remember': 'I remember that little jerk you give just before you fall asleep. Like falling.'
Recollections - jokes, confessions, daydreams and memories - were carefully, lovingly woven together. They were of family and friends; of movie stars; of early heterosexual fumblings and later gay life. Brainard's pared-back prose dodged both self-pity and judgement of others, and was written with an ear for musical cadence and an extraordinary painter's eye. The result is witty, incantatory, profound and wholly captivating.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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0,25 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-917092-22-7 (9781917092227)
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Joe Brainard was born in Arkansas and moved to New York when he was only eighteen, where he became a vital presence in the city's art and poetry scenes of the 1960s and 1970s. He died in 1994.
