I Remember

The front cover of I Remember, with a photograph of a baby in a sailor costume. 

Joe Brainard was a painter, collagist, and writer who played a crucial role in the second generation of the New York School’s poetics. I Remember, his best-known literary work, is a book-length list poem cataloging his early memories. Brainard found this list format so fruitful that he published several sequels, including I Remember More, I Remember Christmas, and More I Remember More.

Joe Brainard. I Remember. New York: Angel Hair Books, 1970.