The Stuff of Hollywood

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 Hollywood 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