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."
G
Galeano,
Eduardo (1995) (see
also next two entries)
* Author: Eduardo Galeano
* Interviewer: Michael Silverblatt
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 90 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a journalist, historian, caricaturist, and political activist who is best known for Memory of Fire, a fictive historical trilogy of the Americas from the first native myths to modern times. Mr. Galeano said that 'the reality of Latin America is more fantastic than the lies we've been told, and nothing is more horrible or poetic than the truth.' Mr. Galeano read from Walking Words, The Book of Embraces, and Memory of Fire on May 23, 1995, in Los Angeles.
"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the highly acclaimed 'Bookworm,' a literary interview program broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."
Galeano,
Eduardo--Volume
II
(2001) (see
also the previous and next entries)
* Author: Eduardo Galeano
* Interviewer: Lawrence Weschler
* Director: Thunder Road Productions
* Running time: 1 hour 24 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940, is an essayist, journalist, historian, and political activist. He has written passionately about the effects of imperialist exploitation and the violence in Latin American society. Mr. Galeano, who uses elements of the novel, poetry, and scholarship in his trilogy, Memory of Fire, has said, 'I'm trying to create a synthesis of all different ways of expressing life and reality . . . I tried to find a way of recounting history so that the reader would feel that it was happening right now, just around the corner--this immediacy, this intensity, which is the beauty and the reality of history.' Mr. Galeano, who received the 1999 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, read on April 22, 1999.
"Lawrence Weschler's books include Calamities of Exile and Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders. Mr. Weschler, who is a staff writer at the New Yorker, received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1999."
Galeano,
Eduardo (2001) (see
also the previous two entries; cross-listed under "Salgado, Sebastião"--see
"S" video holdings)
* Authors: Eduardo Galeano and Sebastião Salgado
* Interviewer: Amy Goodman
* Director: Thunder Road Productions
* Running time: 2 hours 18 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Eduardo Galeano is an essayist, journalist, historian, and activist. Mr. Galeano's books include the trilogy Memory of Fire, The Book of Embraces, We Say No, and Walking Words. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for many years before returning to Uruguay. Mr. Galeano, who received the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom[,] read from his work on November 3, 2000."
"Sebastião Salgado is a Paris[-]based photojournalist who has documented the lives of Latin American peasants, diamond mine workers in Brazil, and famine in Africa. His most recent books, Migrations: Humanity in Transition and The Children: Refugees and Migrations, illuminate the flight of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons all over the world. His previous books include An Uncertain Grace and Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age."
"Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now![,] a nationally syndicated radio news program."
Gass,
William H. (2001)
* Author: William H. Gass
* Interviewer: Michael Silverblatt
* Director: Thunder Road Productions
* Running time: 1 hour 41 minutes
From the video jacket:
"William H. Gass, born in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1924, is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic, and philosopher. His collections of essays include Finding a Form, Fiction and the Figures of Life, The World Within the Word, Habitations of the Word, and On Being Blue. He is also the author of a collection of novellas, Cartesian Sonata, and the novels The Tunnel, Omensetter's Luck, and Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife. Mr. Gass, who received the 1997 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, is the David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Gass read on November 5, 1998."
"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the literary interview program Bookworm, broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."
Gilbert, Jack(1996)
* Author: Jack Gilbert
* Interviewer: Jody AllenRandolph
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Jack Gilbert, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925, has published three books of poetry, The Great Fires, Monoliths: Poems, 1962-1982, and Views of Jeopardy. Mr. Gilbert is a consummate craftsman whose work, subtle and large of heart, is haunted by love and relationships between men and women. Jack Gilbert, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, read from The Great Fires and Monoliths on November 7, 1995."
"Jody AllenRandolph's essays, reviews, and interviews appear regularly in The Irish Literary Supplement, The P.N. Review, and The Women's Review of Books."
Ginsberg,
Allen (1989)
* Author: Allen Ginsberg*
* Interviewer: Lewis MacAdams
* Producers and Directors: Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV
* Running time: 90 minutes
From the video jacket: "Allen Ginsberg, one of the most important poets of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s, gives an energetic performance of work from Collected Poems: 1947-1980, unpublished manuscripts, and songs. He read on February 25, 1989, accompanied by Donald Was of the band Was Not Was, at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Ginsberg was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams."
Glück,
Louise (1989)
* Author: Louise Glück*
* Interviewer: Lewis MacAdams
* Producers and Directors: Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Louise Glück reads from her haunting and finely crafted poetry, including poems from Firstborn, Descending Figure, The House on Marshland, and The Triumph of Achilles, which won the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award. She also reads from work in progress that was later collected in Ararat. She was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams. The reading took place in Los Angeles on April 4, 1988."
Graham,
Jorie (2001)
* Author: Jorie Graham
* Interviewer: Michael Silverblatt
* Director: Thunder Road Productions
* Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Jorie Graham was born in New York City and spent her childhood in France and Italy. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Swarm, The Errancy, The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The End of Beauty. Ms. Graham, who has been honored with the MacArthur Fellowship, teaches at Harvard University. Ms. Graham read on May 20, 1999."
"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the literary interview program Bookworm, broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."
Grennan,
Eamon (1997)
* Author: Eamon Grennan
* Interviewer: Cal Bedient
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Eamon Grennan's lyrical, meditative poems evoke the landscape of his native Ireland as well as his adopted home of suburban New York. He read from So It Goes, As If it Matters, and new poems on March 4, 1997. Mr. Grennan, who was born in Dublin in 1941, teaches English at Vassar College.
"Cal Bedient, whose book of poetry is entitled Candy Necklace, teaches at UCLA."
Guest,
Barbara (1996)
* Author: Barbara Guest
* Interviewer: Douglas Messerli
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Barbara Guest, born in 1920, has written 12 books of poetry, including Defensive Rapture, Fair Realism, and Moscow Mansions. Once associated with the poets of the New York School, a group which included Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and John Ashbery, Ms. Guest's lyrical poems have often been described as word paintings. Barbara Guest read from her Selected Poems on April 16, 1996.
"Douglas Messerli, founder and publisher of Sun & Moon Press, is a poet and a playwright."
Gunn,
Thom (1994)
* Author: Thom Gunn
* Interviewer: Wendy Lesser
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Thom Gunn's austere poems of love and death have distinguished him as a contemporary master. Born in England in 1929, Thom Gunn has lived in northern California since 1954. Thom Gunn read from his Collected Poems, which gathers 40 years of poetry, and new work on October 18, 1994, in Los Angeles.
"Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review. She is the author of three books, The Life Below the Ground, His Other Half, and Pictures at an Execution."
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