{"product_id":"life-forms-barry-sheinkopf-9781953728081","title":"Life Forms: Photographing Metaphor","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarry Sheinkopf has been writing poetry, as well as novels and nonfiction, for decades. In the early 1970s, his poems began to contain fewer and fewer words. He was producing \u003cem\u003etanka \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ehaiku\u003c\/em\u003e, and not being pleased with the results, when finally it dawned on him that he really wanted to make poems with no words at all. This, for a writer, is something of a dilemma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe tried to resolve it by picking up the first of a series of cameras, in 35-millimeter and 4x5\" formats, and attempting to photograph the metaphors he saw all around him. His goal from the first has been to capture these exceptional moments in the life around him. If you know that you're looking at a photograph, he says-something that you know is real-but can't momentarily identify it, your sense of the world will be enlarged a little when you suddenly realize what it is and exclaim, \"Aha!\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book, then, records a quest for ways of apprehending the visual world that has never ended for him-of seeing into the life of forms, to help his viewers grasp that there are metaphors in everyday experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarry Sheinkopf's photographs have appeared in shows across the Northeast United States. He has published the crime thrillers \u003cem\u003eThese Barely Silent Dead:  An Intrigue, The Ivory Kitten\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Longest Odds\u003c\/em\u003e, the memoir \u003cem\u003eThe Magic Pencil: How a Jewish Art Restorer survived the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e (written with Mikel Carvin), and four volumes of poetry, \u003cem\u003eNot That I Minded, Live from the Limelight:  Selected Poems, Collected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWhat There Was\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the Director of The Writing Center in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, where he teaches professional writing courses, and Publisher of Full Court Press, which specializes in custom self-publishing that fully emulates traditional press standards\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Sheinkopf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1953728081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953728081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Full Court Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.31d","brand":"Barry Sheinkopf","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44860374843647,"sku":"9781953728081","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0bfdfc0f-3595-4793-b5fb-1f6b4e493540.jpg?v=1709135940","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-forms-barry-sheinkopf-9781953728081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}