Stories of the Street
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3849-8 (ISBN)
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.
David Lazar is the author or editor of numerous books, including Celeste Holm Syndrome (Nebraska, 2020); I’ll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms (Nebraska, 2017); Truth in Nonfiction; Occasional Desire: Essays (Nebraska, 2013); and The Body of Brooklyn.
To the Reader
The Worry Anchor
Ghost List
(Boy) (Girl)
A Knife on a Fault Line
Air Quote
Apocryphal
Basement
Big Dog
But Seriously
Carly, Sorry
Chicago Hotel
Closing Time
Distaff
Face Down
A Supposed Examination of Entanglements
Two Times Six
Action Petition
Fireball
Forty-Eight Bucks
Have a Light, Janine?
Hermeneutics
Interval
It’s Late
Forgotten in Death
Troy’s Prophecy
Down by the Lake
Jane Burton
Why Do Some Objects Favor Us with Their Loss?
Je Suis V——, Napoleon
Jewish Museum
Wize Guise
Light Man
Love and Loss
Thrall
Love’s Lost Lake
Thus the Photograph
Malo Grablje
I Am Writing This in Chicago
On Wednesday, March 8th, at Six o’clock p.m. . . .
Mirror, Mirror
New World Order
Reading by Nina
Read, Goddess
Robin?
Scripting
Sequence
Sinatra Matters
What’s My Color IQ?
Succession
Temperature Could Be Rain
The Tigers, Baby
Telling a Story
Locations of Found Texts
Acknowledgments
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 62 color photographs |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3849-4 / 1496238494 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3849-8 / 9781496238498 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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