IN THOSE DAYS WE is an attempt to look backward into our collective past, and to make flesh of the ghosts lost within the borders of old photographs.
Featuring written works by: Len Kuntz, Robert Kloss, Norman Lock, Molly Gaudry, J. A. Tyler, Kathryn Rantala, Ben Tanzer, Ryan W. Bradley, Andrew Borgstrom, Meg Tuite, Kyle Hemmings, Parker Tettleton, Marcus Speh, Chad Redden, Robert Vaughan, J. Bradley, and David Tomaloff.
This is a beautiful book full of pictures and stories assembled by Jennifer Tomaloff. The pictures are mysterious because we don't know the stories behind them. They're strangely familiar to those of us with families. Many of them unmistakably come from a time long lost to America and thereby to the world. The stories that fill the book were written with the pictures as prompts and they're powerful. I'm delighted to be part of this Tomaloff project—once again a peculiar "bending of light into verse" form. It's a violation of the laws of physics: light particles that are everywhere at once because they're part of a fictional universe of infinite meaning and size.