{"product_id":"9780996157056","title":"NY Sin Phoney In Face Flat Minor: not quite poems, not quite journal entries, meta-factual snapshots of everyday New York life","description":"The Unloaded Camera Snapshots were launched as an exercise to document the \"snapshots\" of everyday life in Paris with Paris Scratch \u0026amp; continued upon my return to NYC. The exercise consisted of \"taking\" a written \"snapshot\" per day. ere was good reason for this: I, like other New Yorkers, had become, as Flora Lewis described it, \"inured to the ravages around them they scarcely notice anymore.\" A deadening of our senses \u0026amp;, never mind our idealism, allows us to believe we're outwitting our environment. The Unloaded Camera Snapshot idea documents \"snapshots\" consist of zen blinks, pop ashes, heated moments, \u0026amp; satori-sloshed sidewalk haikus that re-pollinated my existence with the fecund details of the quotidian. I was already wandering anyway, taking cues from Thomas Wolfe, Poe, Henry Miller; using my 3rd eye as a macro lens \u0026amp; suddenly noticing things again. It was like Robert Frank \u0026amp; Saul Leiter in the Life Cafe, in an act of bravado, deciding to smash their cameras \u0026amp; triumphantly take up pens instead, ultimately registering the magnified thereness of the world's unavailability. As A.E. Housman noted: \"Having drunk a pint of beer at luncheon, I would go out for a walk. As I went along, there would flow into my mind, with sudden \u0026amp; unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or 2 of verse, sometimes a whole stanza ...\"","brand":"Sensitive Skin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49808034726128,"sku":"9780996157056","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996157056","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}