Debtor's Prison

by Lewis Warsh, Julie Harrison

This book is the first collaboration bewteen poet/novelist Lewis Warsh and video/visual artist Julie Harrison, in which skewed and closely-croppped black-and-white video stills from Harrison's primitive-style documentary and performance tapes of the 1970s are paired with stark lines of text written in response by Warsh.

136 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2001

Reviews

[Madi · Rating 4 out of 5]

fun, experimental artist collab from another era 🤍 gave me lots to think about

some lines that stuck with me:
“every new person is a messenger, but the
message is open to question”

“perhaps there’s an island in the pacific that hasn’t been
invaded by our unhappiness”

“the word is still the thing, we must
go on weeping”

[Benjamin Niespodziany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love a good multimedia book. This one blends lines of poetry and photography with dizzying/dazzling results.

[Mills College Library]

818.54 W2957d 2001