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Product details
- ISBN 9781946482198
- Weight: 172g
- Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2019
- Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 is an arresting ethnography of American military culture, one that allows readers to circle at length through the cloverleaf interchanges where warfare nestles into even the most mundane corners of everyday life.
