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Directing Herbert White

By James Franco

Directing Herbert White Poetry

Directing Herbert White

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Directing Herbert White is the debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco I'm a nocturnal creature, And I'm here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face- In fifty years My sleep will be death, I'll go like the rest, But I'll have played All the games and all the roles. -from "Nocturnal" "There's never been a book quite like this. Hollywood-fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist-is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget." -Frank Bidart "A star-studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco's poetic consciousness, imbuing the writing with scenes of icons who are also humans replete with sorrow and presence in our own psyches. James Dean, Monica Vitti, Catherine Deneuve, Sal Mineo, Heath Ledger, pass and fade. The author has a wonderful, self-reflexive insouciance about his own fame and roles inhabited, from Hart Crane to Allen Ginsberg to Harvey Milk's lover. Franco is a gifted contemporary Renaissance kind of guy, surveying the waterfront of illusion, suffering, and impermanance. We leave the movie theater a little wiser." -Anne Waldman
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
96
Release Date:
2014-04-15
Publication Date:
2014-03-18
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1555976735
ISBN13:
9781555976736
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
155 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
10 cm

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