Directing Herbert White: Poems

Directing Herbert White is the debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco

I'm a nocturnal creature,

And I'm here to cheat time.

You can see time and exhaustion

Taking pay from my face—

In fifty years

My sleep will be death,

I'll go like the rest,

But I'll have played

All the games and all the roles.

—from "Nocturnal"

"There's never been a book quite like this. Hollywood—fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist—is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Mel...