{"title":"Barry Sheinkopf","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"gravitas-collapsing-empire-paperback","title":"Gravitas: Collapsing Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 190 A.D., Commodus Antoninus has ruled the Roman Empire for eleven years and replaced the measured government of his immediate predecessors with the capricious behavior of a madman. He is universally hated and feared. Four people scattered across the Empire-in Rome, Ostia, Spain, and Germany-have been struggling to understand the altered circumstances of their lives. Born into a stable world, they recognize it less and less. Little by little, the time-honored principle of gravitas-restraint, decency, service to country, respect for tradition, and care for others-is vanishing, and they wonder whether Commodus is the cause of their dilemma or its consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow they find their way in this altered world is the subject of this novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375131230431,"sku":"9781953728098","price":23.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7BMeMRJRJr9781953728098.webp?v=1789193102"},{"product_id":"a-healing-eye-images-and-words-in-a-time-of-plague-paperback","title":"A Healing Eye: Images and Words in a Time of Plague - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We are living through a very grim time,\" writes Barry Sheinkopf, \"with death lurking invisibly all around us, livelihoods shaken or destroyed, emotions running wild in all directions, governments struggling with varying degrees of integrity and success to contain the mayhem, and our very nature as social creatures held in cautious check. We're calling the microscopic organism that has attacked us Coronavirus and the disease it causes Covid-19, but it's a plague plain and simple: novel, horrifying, highly contagious, perhaps recurring. Our future has become uncertain, a mystery. That's why I have subtitled this collection \u003cem\u003eImages and Words in a Time of Plague\u003c\/em\u003e. I've been using cameras for a long time, living with the astonishment of the world around me and trying to capture, not just the facts of what I see, but that very astonishment. \u003cbr\u003e I offer some of those images here--like candles set adrift in a river on paper plates--wedded to insights they have called to mind that poets and writers have left us over many centuries. I offer the book in the hope that it sustains you as these images have sustained me with the faith that the joy of living will endure for us all--that, as Kafka once put it, 'They threw us out of Paradise, but Paradise was not destroyed.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378199363807,"sku":"9781946989659","price":12.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wBet_vWaKK9781946989659.webp?v=1789250831"},{"product_id":"life-forms-photographing-metaphor-hardcover","title":"Life Forms: Photographing Metaphor - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378245992671,"sku":"9781953728081","price":43.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/dWBP4YSzz99781953728081.webp?v=1789250853"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/barry-sheinkopf.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}