Andrew Nicholls: As Man is to God

Thursday, April 10 at 2:30 PM on KPFK my guest is Andrew Nicholls. He's written extensively for television print and stage, and produced both a memoir and a how-to comedy writing book. Now he’s out with a long poem on the making of filmmaker Werner Hertzog’s film Fitzcarraldo titled As Man is to God: A Poem on the Making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. Written in dactylic tetrameter this sixty-seven page four hundred-stanza story in verse was described by poet, editor and translator Boris Dralyuk as “a rollicking tale in verse as astonishing in its foolhardiness as the film shoot it chronicles.”  It’s an epic and beautiful experiment in comic perseverance and genuine documentary commentary. Published by Slow Lightning Lit, you can see and hear the author perform the entire book, with images, on Sat, 10 May, 2025 at 03:00 pm at the Lyric Hyperion Theater and Cafe, 2106 Hyperion Avenue, Los Angeles.

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