A meditation on memory, possession, grief and red wallpaper. Can you revisit a place that never existed?
The Vertigo Tour follows Jimmy Stewart as he trails Kim Novak through the streets of San Francisco in Hitchcock’s famous film. Featuring simple snapshots of the movie’s locations, this poem-essay attempts to peek behind the scenes of Hitchcock’s elaborate recreations—only to find a city that continually slips out of view just as it comes into focus. The Vertigo Tour pursues the film’s “endless, telescoping deferrals,” marking how histories are constantly created, buried, dug up and buried again.
Each book comes with one of four postcards documenting the history of the hotel featured in the film, its shifting identity presenting a time-lapse account of a changing San Francisco. - Publisher
