{"product_id":"as-it-were-rosaire-appel-9781452865102","title":"As It Were: 17 asemic stories","description":"\"As it were\" is a collection of seventeen non-verbal compositions that visually explore the story as a form. Considering literary forms, one sees that a poem resides in a shape that is particular to it and inviolable. A novel, however, exists in many pages that all look alike. A story occupies a limited enclosure with a consistent though malleable shape. Each story in this collection uses a different system of generators, each uses its own language. Like drawing, writing is visual and gestural, but with different constraints. Without the force of semantic content holding one's attention in a specific mode to the page, the differences between drawing and writing begin to soften and the act of looking and the act of reading begin to merge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosaire Appel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1452865108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781452865102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.51d","brand":"Rosaire Appel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935933956351,"sku":"9781452865102","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3d19b4f8-2ab6-40e3-bac6-587362e6b55f.jpg?v=1681422659","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/as-it-were-rosaire-appel-9781452865102","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}