{"product_id":"the-stuff-of-hollywood-niki-herd-9781556596964","title":"The Stuff of Hollywood","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Stuff of Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e, the camera is both a witness of truths and an instrument capturing the line between real and engineered violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stuff of Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e is 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Stuff of Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegy for a country that never existed beyond the screen.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Niki Herd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556596960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556596964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Niki Herd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44716308496639,"sku":"9781556596964","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b719e8c0-4364-4528-b5ca-7e9d05477431.jpg?v=1705681816","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-stuff-of-hollywood-niki-herd-9781556596964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}