Description: Stories of the Street : Reimagining Found Texts, Paperback by Lazar, David, ISBN 1496238494, ISBN-13 9781496238498, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "When walking down the street, it is not uncommon to see lost items that have escaped their proper receptacles, but how often does one stop to read the messages left behind? David Lazar has stopped often, capturing the pieces of a "lost world on the streets" and thinking about the life of the discarder from the fragments left of the Street is a series of imaginative meditations-through prose poems, short-short essays, microfictions, and prose pieces without precise genre distinction-of what it means to encounter lost or discarded texts. Rather than simply deconstructing the lists, notes, receipts, or book pages he finds strewn in various cities, Lazar uses them as suggestive, capable of inspiring possible narratives that are at most latentin the text itself. The encounter, then, is an encounter with oneself and the mysteries of cities, where detritus frequently doubles as a sign saying, "Consider this." Lazar's narrative voice ranges in tone from the comically antic to the melancholy. By photographing what he describes as "messages that had escaped their bottles" on-location as found, Lazar has become a flaneur of paper debris, puzzling over the evidence of urban human life"--
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Book Title: Stories of the Street : Reimagining Found Texts
Number of Pages: 136 Pages
Publication Name: Stories of the Street : Reimagining Found Texts
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Communication Studies, Subjects & Themes / Street Photography, American / General, Photoessays & Documentaries
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Subject Area: Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines, Photography
Author: David Lazar
Item Width: 5.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
