Recently, I posted pages on FB from Debtor’s Prison, a book I created in collaboration with poet Lewis Warsh which was published in 2001 by Granary Books and Visual Studies Workshop, and many of you commented. The title might be a concept that most are glad doesn’t exist anymore, given the current state of our economies, but thebook resonates. It was released in October, right after 9-11, so it is particularly prescient. Well, except for those empty hospital hallways!
Debtor's Prison, page spread from book in collaboration with Lewis Warsh, Granary Books, 2001.
Debtor's Prison, page spread from book in collaboration with Lewis Warsh, Granary Books, 2001.
Spreads from the book are also currently being exhibited at Poets House (from March through August) in an exhibition entitled "Participating Witness: The Poetics Of Granary Books" — of course viewed only by spirits right now, but hopefully we’ll be out of this mess before the show is scheduled to close in August (and maybe Poets House will keep it up a bit longer).
Granary Books’ exhibition is wide-ranging, featuring books, page spreads and ephemera from publications created since 2000, including work by Kiki Smith, Donna Dennis, John Ashbery, Johanna Drucker, Charles Bernstein, Ligorano/Reese, James Sienna, Timothy C. Ely, Duncan Hannah, Mimi Gross, Majorie Welish, Yvonne Jacquette, Cecilia Vicuña, Alison Knowles, Jack Smith, Ron Padgett, Archie Rand, John Yau, Tevor Winkfield, Susan Bee, and more. I hope you get a chance to stop by this summer!