A new edition of Mekas’ acclaimed memoir, first published by Black Thistle Press in 1991, I Had Nowhere to Go tells the story of the artist’s survival in the camps and his first years as a young Lithuanian immigrant in New York City. Mekas’ memoir–the inspiration for a 2016 biopic by Douglas Gordon–tells the story of how an individual life can move through the larger 20th-century narratives of war and exile and tentatively put down new roots. In the words of Phillip Lopate, “This is a lyrical, essential spiritual anthropology.”

Format: Paperback
Published: 2017
Publisher: Spector Books
Pages: 469
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3959051468
ISBN 13: 9783959051460