![]() ![]() In the Introduction, Levy tells us, "None of the accounts are fictitious. It contains excerpts from the intake journal of the state mental institution, as well. The journalists subscribed to a state wire service so the accounts come from all over Wisconsin, including many from the area in which I currently live. It also contains text that is taken from the newspaper accounts of two journalists also from Black River Falls. ![]() The book is comprised of many black and white photos that were preserved from several thousand glass negative plates taken between the years of 18 by a photographer in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. ![]() Wisconsin Death Trip is a unique historical perspective, or as its author, Michael Lesy says, "an exercise in historical actuality." It is an "alchemy" as he puts it, that allows us to experience the past at a gut level, a gestalt, something we feel and understand on levels that are bigger than the book itself. ![]()
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