The Stuff of Hollywood by Niki Herd - 9781556596964

Name: The Stuff of Hollywood by Niki Herd - 9781556596964
Brand: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

In The Stuff of Hollywood, the camera is both a witness of truths and an instrument capturing the line between real and engineered violence.\nThe Stuff of Hollywood is a meditation on the pervasiveness of violence in America. In this book-length poem, Niki Herd relies on various modes\u2014images, prose, lyric and documentary poems\u2014to reflect upon the quotidian nature of gun culture, police killings, and political unrest. A busy Waffle House, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, inside an Uber on a Chicago street, readers are placed in various \u201Cfilm\u201D locations and watch as America becomes a character in its own absurd movie. In one section, excerpted language from the continuity script of D.W. Griffith\u2019s 1915 The Birth of a Nation is juxtaposed with text from the January 6 congressional\n\nThe Stuff of Hollywood\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the pri;