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Stories of the Street: Reimagining Found Texts
 
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ISBN13:9781496238498
ISBN10:1496238494
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:136 pages
Size:216x140 mm
Weight:194 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 62 color photographs
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Stories of the Street

Reimagining Found Texts
 
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
 
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Short description:

Stories 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. By photographing on-location, David Lazar becomes a flaneur of paper debris, puzzling over the evidence of urban human life that litter represents.

Long description:
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 behind.

Stories 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 latent in 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.

“‘One must awaken the stories that sleep in the streets,’ wrote the philosopher of everyday life Michel de Certeau. David Lazar has assembled an anthology of them, found underfoot and awakened with deft artistry and genuine wonder. Balanced between prose poetry and flash fiction, these pieces, with their instigating photographs, reveal that stories waiting to be told may be found wherever you look.”—D. J. Waldie, author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place