The Stuff of Hollywood

di Niki Herd (Autore)

Copper Canyon Press, 2024

In The Stuff of Hollywood, the camera is both a witness of truths and an instrument capturing the line between real and engineered violence. The Stuff of Hollywoodis a meditation on the pervasiveness of violence in America. In this book-length poem, Niki Herd relies on various modes—images, prose, lyric and documentary poems—to 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 “film” 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’s 1915 The Birth of a Nationis juxtaposed with text from the January 6 congressional hearings, suggesting a fragile line between real and engineered brutality.Herd interrogates empire and the ways in which violence is consumed and normalized. The Stuff of Hollywood is an elegy for a country that never existed beyond the screen.

• Autore: Niki Herd
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: Copper Canyon Press
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781619322936

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