Joe Brainard: I Remember

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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.The song had just been released on Red (Taylor’s Version), the 2021 rerecording of her fourth album, which came out in 2012.

It ranges from what fresh cut grass smells like on a Sunday morning to personal experiences that Joe, as a young gay man, experienced finding himself in a world unkind to such life choices. I Remember is written in a long list of mostly short paragraphs, all of them beginning with the title. By the second, third, or fifth listen of a run, all I could think about was point of view, verb tense, and one of the few “craft” words I like: temporality, which sounds so much more well behaved than time. Un autoritratto di un giovane uomo che si apre ai suoi lettori, anche ai curiosi come me, senza vergogna o imbarazzo, ma con verità per apprezzarlo ancora di più.Brainard είναι ένας άγνωστος σε μένα καλλιτέχνης μιας κοντινής/μακρινής ��ποχής, κι όμως οι μικρές του μνήμες κατάφεραν να μου δώσουν μια ουσιαστική και καθαρή εικόνα τόσο της εποχής του όσο και τους ίδιου του του εαυτού, ενός queer αγοριού που παλεύει ανάμεσα στα θέλω και τις κοινωνικές επιταγές. My friend Janet recommended this book; once I looked it up, I was surprised I never knew about Joe Brainard. I remember daydreams of a doctor who (on the sly) was experimenting with a drug that would turn you into a real stud. Unfortunately, it feels more lazy than innovative, as Brainard couldn't be troubled to shape his recollections cogently or into a narrative. Me acuerdo" es un libro espléndido, bello, en ocasiones reminiscente a la obra de Mapplethorpe, aquella donde exponía imágenes de flores junto a infantes desnudos.

One day last fall, I found a receipt from Amherst Books, dated a decade prior, stuck in my copy of The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, along with instructions for fasting before blood work from UMass’s University Health Services. El caso es que, platicando del descubrimiento que significó leer a Braunstein, saqué a relucir mi recuerdo, solo para constatar, que tal recuerdo, era ciento por ciento una reconstrucción mía. Participants scored the past-tense statements as having less predictable outcomes than the present-tense statements.In 1970, Angel Hair books published the first edition of I Remember , which quickly sold out; he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair, More I Remember (1972) and More I Remember More (1973), both of which proved as popular as the original.