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LINKS TO RELATED SITES
www.joebrainard.org
The definitive site about Joe Brainard run by Joe Brainard's long-time friend Ron Padgett who also co-edited The Nancy Book. It includes excerpts from earlier reviews, a list of Joe's publications and exhibitions, many more images of his work, as well as several links.
The Joe Brainard Archive at University of California, San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library
This is a vast collection donated by collector Robert Butts. Even if you can't make it to San Diego to have a look, read the abstract and container list to get a sense of the breadth of Joe's work as well as the extraordinary circle of artists, writers and composers with whom he collaborated and who he counted as friends.
PennSound: Joe Brainard
Hear Joe read at St. Mark's Church!
Jacket Magazine, Issue #16
This issue of the venerable Australian on-line poetry journal includes selections from Pressed Wafer #2 in which writers such as Wayne Koestenbaum, Anselm Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, David Trinidad, and many others honored Joe with poems and remembrances. The special feature on Joe also includes an excellent essay "Working with Joe" by Bill Berkson (who collaborated with Joe on "Recent Visitors" in The Nancy Book) as well as Kristin Prevallet's "The Artful Wordiness of Materials: Joe Brainard & Poetry" and her interview with Kenward Elmslie. This issue of Jacket also honors Angel Hair Press.
poets.org
Along with an introduction to the New York School, the website for Academy of American poets also includes an essay on I Remember, as well as biographical material for several of Joe's collaborators: Anne Waldman, Barbara Guest, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Ron Padgett, and Ted Berrigan.
The Poetics of Comics
Gary Sullivan, author of the comic Elsewhere, undertakes a thorough investigation of the New York School's use of comics as a poetic medium by looking specifically at Joe's ground-breaking collaborations with poets in the 1960s zine C Comics. Here are links to each of 8 essays: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
About Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Ron Padgett
KCRW BookWorm Michael Silverblatt interviews Ron Padgett about his memoir.
Reviews of the Joe Brainard retrospectives
(The first in 1997 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery; the second curated by Constance Lewallen for the Berkeley Art Museum and traveling to PS1, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Attending to the Ordinary by Carter Ratcliffe in ART IN AMERICA, July 1997
Nancy Ideas by Brad Gooch in ARTFORUM, February 2001
Joe Brainard by James Trainor in FRIEZE, March 2002
New York Times Obituary by Roberta Smith, May 27, 1994
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