Acknowledgements;
Introduction: Joe Brainard’s Collage Aesthetic, Yasmine Shamma;
Part 1: Reflections and Recollections;
1. Joe, A Funny Nickname, Alice Notley;
2. Tenderness and Gristle, Anne Waldman;
3. Smoking Joe, John Brainard;
4. Artist Statement, John Ashbery;
5. Vulnerability in Joe Brainard’s Work, Edmund Berrigan;
Part 2: Joe Brainard’s Visions and Visuals;
6. Joe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future, Nathan Kernan;
7. Boom: Joe Brainard 1961 – 1963, Ron Padgett;
8. Joe Brainard’s Still-Life Poetics, Jess Cotton;
Part 3: Brainard and Others
9. “Men with Pair of Scissors”: Joe Brainard and John Ashbery’s Eclecticism, Rona Cran;
10. Codes and Wounds: Exposure and Inviolability in the Work of Joe Brainard and Frank Bidart, Anna Smaill;
11. The Friendly Way: Crafting Community in Joe Brainard’s Poetry, Brian Glavey;
12. Joe Brainard’s Conversations: On Dialogue, In Dialogue, Andrew Epstein Andy Fitch;
Part 4: Brainard’s Books
13. “Fuck work”: The Reciprocity of Labor and Pleasure in Joe Brainard’s Writing, Nick Sturm;
14. Everyday Queers: Joe Brainard, Femininity, and the Queer Poetics of the Normal, Kimberly Lamm;
15. ‘Saying Good-Bye’: Joe Brainard’s Bolinas Journal and Memoir as Disappearance, Timothy Keane; Afterword, Marjorie Perloff, Index.