Since When by Bill Berkson

Author:Bill Berkson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781566895378
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2018-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Air Blue by Joe Brainard and Bill, 1971

Illustration © the Estate of Joe Brainard

Joe was such a good writer that he could even write his “visual” works in prose, viz the series of piquant Ten Imaginary Still Lifes, written in the seventies, one of which reads:

I close my eyes. I see a white statue (say 10″ high) of David. Alabaster. And pink rose petals, sprinkled upon a black velvet drape. This is a sissy still life. Silly, but pretty. And in a certain way almost religious. “Eastern” religious. This still life is secretly smiling.

Another example: Joe the expert portraitist manifested his acuity in both words and pictures. Here is his word portrait of James Schuyler:

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