pstrongThe American artist's much-imitated memoir, described by Paul Auster as one of the few totally original books I have ever read.strongpJoe Brainard's iI Rememberi is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain I remember I remember when I thought that if you did anything bad, policemen would put you in jail. Brainard's enduring gem of a book has been issued in various forms over the past thirty years. In 1970, Angel Hair books published the first edition of iI Rememberi, which quickly sold out he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair, iMore I Rememberi 1972 and iMore I Remember Morei 1973, both of which proved as popular as the original. In 1973, the Museum of Modern Art in New York published Brainard's iI Remember Christmasi, a new te