8 Joe Brainard’s Still-Life Poetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. Introduction: Joe Brainard’s Collage Aesthetic 1
6. Part I: Reflections and Recollections
7. 1 Joe, A Funny Nickname 21
8. 2 Joe Brainard: Tenderness and Gristle 24
9. 3 Smoking Joe 27
10. 4 Artist Statement 32
11. 5 Vulnerability in Joe Brainard’s Work 34
12. Part II: Joe Brainard’s Visions and Visuals
13. 6 Joe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future 41
14. 7 Boom: Joe Brainard 1961–1963 69
15. 8 Joe Brainard’s Still-Life Poetics 80
16. Part III: Brainard and Others
17. 9 “Men with a Pair of Scissors”: Joe Brainard and John Ashbery’s Eclecticism 103
18. 10 The Friendly Way: Crafting Community in Joe Brainard’s Poetry 127
19. 11 Codes and Wounds: Exposure and Inviolability in the Work of Joe Brainard and Frank Bidart 146
20. 12 I Wonder: In Dialogue, On Dialogue 165
21. Part IV: Brainard’s Books
22. 13 “Fuck Work”: The Reciprocity of Labor and Pleasure in Joe Brainard’s Writing 183
23. 14 A Queer Poetics of the Normal: Joe Brainard, Clothing, and Girlish Femininity 200
24. 15 The Memoir of Disappearance: Joe Brainard’s Bolinas Journal 224
25. Afterword 248
26. Index 256