The William Van O'Connor Library

Lannan Video Catalogue

An asterisk (*) following the name of the author indicates that the artist is also featured in the video Where Poems Come From, filed under the letter "W."

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Doty, Mark (1997)

        * Author:                                  Mark Doty 

        * Interviewer:                          Eloise Klein Healy 

        * Director:                                 Dan Griggs/Media Revolution

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Mark Doty's five books of poetry include My Alexandria, which won the National Book Critics' Circle Award; Atlantis; and Sweet Machine. Mr. Doty said he wrote Heaven's Coast, a memoir about his life with his partner who died of AIDS, when he realized 'it would have felt in some way dishonest to the gravity and intensity of this time of grief to attempt to order it, to shape it in that very controlled way that poems are shaped. Potentially, it was an infinite book.' Mr. Doty read from Atlantis, Heaven's Coast, and Sweet Machine.

"Eloise Klein Healy is a poet whose books include Artemis in Echo Park and Ordinary Wisdom. She teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles."

Dybek, Stuart (1997)

        * Author:                                    Stuart Dybek

        * Interviewer:                            Barry Sanders

        * Director:                                 Dan Griggs/Media Revolution

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Stuart Dybek has written two collections of stories, The Coast of Chicago and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, and a book of poetry, Brass Knuckles. Mr. Dybek's luminous and haunting stories evoke the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago where he grew up. He received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, as well as a Whiting Writer's Award and four O'Henry Prizes. He read the story 'Paper Lantern' and from The Coast of Chicago on November 12, 1996.

"Barry Sanders, the author of Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History and The Private Death of Public Discourse, teaches at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA."

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