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Title

The banana book / [by Joe Brainard].

Author

Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994.

Publication

New York : Siamese Banana Press, c1972.

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Additional Authors

• Schuyler, James.
• Print Center (Brooklyn, N.Y)
• Siamese Banana Press, publisher.
• Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (U.S.)
• New York State Council on the Arts.

Description

[20] leaves : chiefly ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

• Artists' books > United States > Specimens
• Bananas in art
• Experimental literature, American > 20th century

Genre/Form

Illustrated works – New York (State) – New York – 20th century.

Note

• Cover title.
• "With special thanks to Jimmy Schuyler."--p. [2].
• Issued in white paper wrappers printed in black; staple bound.
• "This siamese banana booklet was printed and produced at The Print Center, Inc., a non-profit facility funded by a grant from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and the New York State Council on the Arts [...]."--Colophon.
• "Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Schuyler was a central member of the New York School. [...] Before moving to New York in 1950, Schuyler lived for two years on the Isle of Ischia in Italy where he worked as a secretary for W. H. Auden. In 1951, Schuyler was introduced to Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery at a party in New York. The three poets would go on to share an apartment on 49th Street in Manhattan and to work closely together, often collaborating on a variety of writing projects. By the mid-1950s, Schuyler was writing for Art News and working as a curator for circulating exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art."--From Poetry Foundation website.
• Contains innocently humorous, pop, and ribald references to bananas, with reproductions of newspaper clippings and pornographic gay photographs, as well as erotically suggestive depictions by Brainard of bananas in a commercial and pop art style.
• One page using cut-up method reminiscent of William S. Burroughs contains passages from Tobias Schneebaum's Keep the River on Your Right (N.Y.: Grove Press, 1969), about native tribes of Peru.
• With reproduction of "Nancy" comic strip about ordering and canceling a banana split at an ice cream counter.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture Brainard B36 1972

OCLC

1185956

Author

Brainard, Joe, 1942-1994.

Title

The banana book / [by Joe Brainard].

Imprint

New York : Siamese Banana Press, c1972.

Access

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Added Author

Schuyler, James.

Print Center (Brooklyn, N.Y)

Siamese Banana Press, publisher.

Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (U.S.)

New York State Council on the Arts.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Counterculture Brainard B36 1972