Books like I Remember

If there could be an ideal task in creative writing it is this one: write a story or a poem where every sentence begins "I remember" and tell the truth. The lesson here is simple: the more intimate is your confessions, the more connection they establish, the more power they generate, the more touching they are.This is what Joe Brainard did in 1970 and it still reads fresh. For my money, though, a very similar kind of concept (yet even more stunningly executed) was done by Édouard Levé some 35 yrs later in his "Autoportrait". Read them both, be surprised by their deceptive simplicity.