Low: Notes on Art & Trash

LOW: Notes on Art and Trash guides readers through low places teeming with art and vitality and charts the author's own journey as a working class artist whose life has been profoundly shaped by growing up "trash." In prose that gie Nelson calls "wry" and "pulsing with urgency and necessity," these capacious essays deliver smart, felt commentary on a range of works, from Merle Laderman Ukeles' "Touch Sanitation" performance to political activist Emma Goldman and Shakespeare's tragedies. Deploying formal experiments that borrow from memoir, criticism, poetry and performance art, LOW reclaims trash as a precious resource, animated by the outcasts who spin it into art.