THE ARROW THAT IS HOLLYWOOD
PIERCES THE SOUL THAT IS ME
Alex Gildzen
40 pages
Front cover photograph by Kevin McCollister
Otoliths, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9808785-5-4
$10.00 + p&h
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Subscribers to the Otoliths list know Alex Gildzen (It’s All a Movie) as historian of the film-going experience. In this new collection of poems he plumbs the mythology of Hollywood. Taking on stories both familiar and obscure, Gildzen gives close-ups of legends such as Chaplin and Welles. But he affectionately offers star billing to many of Tinseltown’s lesser-known characters – from the woman who may (or may not) have been the first Native American movie star to character actors Victor Kilian and Percy Helton.
A video of Alex Gildzen reading a poem from the book can be accessed at http://youtu.be/DStmNP4F_7k.
Tom Beckett's interview with Alex Gildzen can be found here.
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