Niki Herd. ““With its documentary poetics worked into the ground of the poem rather than dominating the frame, and with its precise juxtapositions and anecdotal tone, “Birth of a Nation” foregrounds not the new sentence but the new paragraph….” ” — henk rossouw Books. the stuff of hollywood / Laura Hershey: On The Life & Work Of An American Master / The Language of Shedding Skin / ________ , don't you weep