Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (Coffee House) is Ron Padgett's intimate and affectionate biography-memoir of his friend of four decades, artist-poet Joe Brainard. It's a very plainspoken book about a man whose work is lush, funny, crowded, dazzling, disarming, and beautiful at a time when beauty was a suspect quality.
Ron Padgett: Joe
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Credits
Guest:
- Ron Padgett - poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator