The William Van O'Connor Library
Lannan Video Catalogue
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Mahon,
Derek (1994)
* Author: Derek Mahon
* Interviewer: Michael Silverblatt
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 45 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Derek Mahon, born in Belfast in 1941, is one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. A recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, Mr. Mahon has published more that 12 books of poetry, as well as several verse translations. He read from his Selected Poems on March 8, 1994, and talked with Michael Silverblatt.
"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the highly acclaimed 'Bookworm,' a literary interview program broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."
Malouf,
Davis (1998)
* Author: David Malouf
* Interviewer: Erroll McDonald
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"David Malouf was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1934. He has written seven books of poetry, seven novels, novellas, a memoir, and a play. His novels include The Conversations at Curlow Creek, An Imaginary Life, and Remembering Babylon, which won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest award for a single literary work. On January 20, 1998, Mr. Malouf read from his memoir Twelve Edmonstone Street and his novels, An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon.
"Erroll McDonald is the executive director at Pantheon books."
Marshall, Paule (1994)
* Author: Paule Marshall
* Interviewer: Michael Silverblatt
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Paule Marshall, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, has said that the source of her art is the expressive talk she heard as a girl among West Indian women in her mother's kitchen. Ms. Marshall, who received a MacArthur Fellowship, has written four novels and two collections of stories. On April 12, 1994, she read from Daughters and talked with Michael Silverblatt in Los Angeles.
"Michael Silverblatt is the producer and host of the highly acclaimed 'Bookworm,' a literary interivew program broadcast on public radio stations nationwide."
Matthiessen,
Peter (1997)
* Author: Peter Matthiessen
* Interviewer: Howard Norman
* Director: Dan Griggs/Media Revolution
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Peter Matthiessen, born in 1927, is a writer, naturalist, activist, and explorer of geographies and the human condition. His novels include Killing Mr. Watson, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, and Far Tortuga. His nonfiction books include The Snow Leopard, which won the National Book Award, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Mr. Matthiessen read from Killing Mr. Watson and Lost Man's River on November 21, 1996.
"Howard Norman is the author of The Museum Guard, The Bird Artist, and The Northern Lights. Mr. Norman received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1997."
Merwin,
W. S. (1989) (see
also next entry)
* Author: W. S. Merwin*
* Interviewer: Lewis MacAdams
* Producers and Directors: Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket: "W. S. Merwin is a distinguished poet, playwright, and translator, whose book The Carrier of Ladders received the Pulitzer Prize. Mr. Merwin reads from Selected Poems and The Rain in the Trees. Mr. Merwin was interviewed by Lewis MacAdams. The reading took place in Los Angeles on May 16, 1988."
Merwin,
W. S.--Volume II (2001) (see
also previous entry)
* Author: W. S. Merwin*
* Interviewer: Naomi Shihab Nye
* Director: Thunder Road Productions
* Running time: 1 hour 27 minutes
From the video jacket:
"W. S. Merwin has published numerous books of poetry that explore the relationship between language and landscape, including The Folding Cliffs, The River Sound, The Vixen, and Flower & Hand. Mr. Merwin has also translated Dante's Purgatorio. Mr. Merwin, a recipient of the Pulitzer, Tanning, and the Ruth Lilly prizes, read on October 18, 2000."
"Naomi Shihab Nye's poetry books include The Words Under the Words, Fuel, and Red Suitcase. She is also the editor of Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets."
Milosz,
Czeslaw (1989) (see
also next entry)
* Author: Czeslaw Milosz*
* Interviewer: Lewis MacAdams
* Producers and Directors: Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr
Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV
* Running time: 60 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Czeslaw Milosz, born in Lithuania in 1911 to a Polish-speaking family, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Mr. Milosz is one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. He reads from The Collected Poems, The Separate Notebooks, and Unattainable Earth. The reading took place on September 12, 1998, in Los Angeles. Mr. Milosz was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams."
Milosz,
Czeslaw--Volume II (2001) (see
also previous entry)
* Author: Czeslaw Milosz*
* Interviewer: Helen Vendler
* Director: Thunder Road Productions
* Running time: 1 hour 17 minutes
From the video jacket:
"Czeslaw Milosz, born in Lithuania in 1911, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Mr. Milosz worked for the resistance in Warsaw during World War II, editing anti-Nazi books and pamphlets. He has published 21 books of poetry since his first, A Poem on Frozen Time, appeared in 1933. English translations of his poetry include The Separate Notebooks, Unattainable Earth, Collected Poems 1931-1987, and Facing the River. He has also written two novels and seventeen nonfiction books, including The Captive Mind and Native Realm. Mr. Milosz read on March 26, 1998."
"Helen Vendler's books include The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Soul Says: On Recent Poetry, The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics, and The Odes of John Keats. Ms. Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University."
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