Kill Class

by Nomi Stone

Kill Class is based on Nomi Stone's two years of fieldwork in mock Middle Eastern villages at military bases across the United States. The speaker in these poems, an anthropologist, both witnesses and participates in combat training exercises staged at "Pineland," a simulated country in the woods of the American South, where actors of Middle Eastern origin are hired to theatricalize war, repetitively pretending to bargain and mourn and die. Kill Class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946482196
• ISBN13: 9781946482198
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 8.9"