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Joe Brainard: I Remember

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I remember that I promised myself I wasn't going to do a concept review of I Remember, and then did it anyway. I remember that Joe Brainard said he got a "below average" IQ score, and wondering if this was a work of accidental genius written by a naif who didn't read much and didn't know how original he was. I remember (recently) getting blown while trying to carry on a normal conversation on the telephone, which, I must admit, was a big turn-on somehow.

Over time, a whole world emerges: a world of growing up queer in Tulsa in the 1950s, when girls wore cardigan sweaters backwards and Sunday afternoon dinner was fried chicken or pot roast.In the experiment, fifty students were asked to consider scenarios written in both the simple past and simple present tense. Tramite disegni realizzati da lui personalmente, citazioni, impariamo a conoscere Joe Brainard, ancora poco noto in Italia. 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 .

I remember when my father would say "Keep your hands out from under the covers" as he said goodnight. I Remember has inspired many homages, none more notable than OuLiPian Georges Perec's Je me souviens which was dedicated to Brainard. 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. I remember thinking as I finished that something original and simple can never be done again, and grumbling something about the anxiety of influence as I looked at the empty page on my writing desk.

I Remember" zeroes in on memories that are impenetrably true to the author, like little declarations of reported fact. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I remember how Joe Brainard liked to combine his remembrances by a counterpoint of the unbelievably banal and the life-changing. Pur non avendo trama, pur non avendo personaggi (fatta eccezione per il narratore, che però non si palesa mai per davvero), questo libro è davvero in grado di far viaggiare il lettore.

thanks to David E and others on goodreads, I too am now a fan of Joe Brainard and his wonderful 1975 memoir, recently reissued by Granary Books. De este libro he aprendido varias lecciones: que la infancia con sus miedos, sentidos y placeres varía muy poco de una generación a otra. Me parece que todos compartimos muchas más experiencias íntimas de las que nos imaginamos, algo que queda demostrado con la cantidad de pequeños detalles que una persona como Brainard, tan alejada de mí en muchos sentidos, me ha devuelto de mi pasado. It's an assemblage of memories, a collage pieced together from snippets and stray thoughts, each of which begins with the incantation "I remember".this book is essentially the uncut version of 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 for a lover who wanted to hear it all. The book remains new and strange and surprising—for, small as it is, I Remember is inexhaustible, one of those rare books that can never be used up.

Reading the simple present, they conclude, “the audience focuses on specific details, blurring the general message but attributing high likelihood to the event and perceiving the target as familiar. Lucky enough to have Tulsa pals Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan, the godfather of second-generation New York School poets, as his New York City welcoming committee, Brainard thrived, living the life of a bohemian artist on the Lower East Side and earning his first solo exhibit four short years after arriving in the city.I know about Long Pond Studio, where Swift, Dessner, and Antonoff met to play the entirety of Swift’s eighth album, Folklore, for a Disney+ documentary. When Swift ushers listeners through that door in the first line, the listener steps toward a perpetual present, a place where the overness of past love is never truly over, “ ’cause,” as the chorus goes, echoing Dolly Parton, “there we are again. Uno per uno, i cosiddetti libri fondamentali della nostra epoca saranno dimenticati, mentre la piccola, semplice gemma di Joe Brainard è destinata a restare. Joe Brainard remembered a lot of things and will be remembered as a lot of things: foremost as a master of collage and assemblage, and so, by necessity as well as temperament, an obsessive collector of materials and appropriator of images; also as a painter; a poet; and a friend. 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.

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