Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film

by Jamey Hecht

Book Overview

This sequence of fifty 14-line poems uses the Zapruder Film of President Kennedy's murder as a prism through which to view America and the world. Refracted rays touch on crime and punishment; guilt and responsibility; charisma and love; the dying victim's experience during the stretched-out seconds of his violation and death; and the dark world of war profiteering, narco-traffic, and deceit where the facts of power determine history. Epic tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597091286
• ISBN13: 9781597091282
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 7.8"