Joe Brainard’s Art

Yasmine Shamma

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

Joe Brainard’s Art

Yasmine Shamma

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474436687

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About this book

Examines the multiple angles of the avant-garde poetry and art of Joe Brainard

Joe Brainard’s work occupies the literal margins of New York school poetry, while also figuratively influencing its aesthetic margins, shaping the school from both within and without. Brainard was not only an important illustrator and friend to many New York school poets, he was also a respected collage artist, miniature artist, cartoonist, avid letter writer and serious poet. As the canon of avant-garde American poetry warmly embraces his poetry alongside his art, the field of literary criticism is freshly responding with enthusiasm to Brainard’s literary contribution with sophisticated scholarship and first-hand accounts which attend to both his textual and visual nuances. This collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard’s poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.

Key Features

Features series of established and new voices in contemporary American poetry
Selected essays all focus on writing but transgress disciplinary lines to also incorporate consideration of Brainard’s visual practice at the same time
Suggests Brainard’s work informingly lined, bound , and shaped the poetics of American avant-garde
Shifts critical attention to Brainard’s writing (while also attending to his well known comics and collages)
Offers further analysis of Brainard’s art and work as uniquely queer in aesthetic practice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Joe Brainard’s Collage Aesthetic Yasmine Shamma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Reflections and Recollections
1 Joe, A Funny Nickname Alice Notley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2 Joe Brainard: Tenderness and Gristle Anne Waldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3 Smoking Joe John Brainard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
4 Artist Statement John Ashbery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
5 Vulnerability in Joe Brainard’s Work Edmund Berrigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Part II: Joe Brainard’s Visions and Visuals
6 Joe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future Nathan Kernan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
7 Boom: Joe Brainard 1961–1963 Ron Padgett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
8 Joe Brainard’s Still-Life Poetics Jess Cotton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Part III: Brainard and Others
9 “Men with a Pair of Scissors”: Joe Brainard and John Ashbery’s Eclecticism Rona Cran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
10 The Friendly Way: Crafting Community in Joe Brainard’s Poetry Brian Glavey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
11 Codes and Wounds: Exposure and Inviolability in the Work of Joe Brainard and Frank Bidart Anna Smaill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
12 I Wonder: In Dialogue, On Dialogue Andrew Epstein and Andy Fitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Part IV: Brainard’s Books
13 “Fuck Work”: The Reciprocity of Labor and Pleasure in Joe Brainard’s Writing Nick Sturm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
14 A Queer Poetics of the Normal: Joe Brainard, Clothing, and Girlish Femininity Kimberly Lamm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
15 The Memoir of Disappearance: Joe Brainard’s Bolinas Journal Timothy Keane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Afterword Marjorie Perloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 36 colour illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474436687