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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."

W

Waldman, Anne*--included in Where Poems Come From (1991) only--see last entry below

 

Walker, Alice (1989)

        * Author:                                   Alice Walker*

        * Interviewer:                            Evelyn White

        * Producers and Directors:       Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr

                                                            Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Alice Walker, who wrote her first book of poems as she travelled through Kenya and Uganda, won the Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Ms. Walker read from Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful, and excerpts from The Color Purple and The Temple of My Familiar in Los Angeles on January 9, 1989. Alice Walker was interviewed at her home in northern California by journalist Evelyn White."

 

West, Paul (1994)

        * Author:                                   Paul West

        * Interviewer:                          Michael Silverblatt 

        * Director:                                 Dan Griggs/Media Revolution

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Paul West, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, is the author of more than 15 novels. Mr. West read from his books Tenement of Clay, Out of My Depths, Rat Man of Paris, and Love's Mansion. Mr. West's reading and conversation took place on September 21, 1993, 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."

 

Wideman, John Edgar (1993)

        * Author:                                   John Edgar Wideman

        * Interviewer:                          Michael Silverblatt 

        * Director:                                 Dan Griggs/Media Revolution

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video recording:

"John Edgar Wideman is one of America's most important fiction writers. Mr. Wideman writes about the evolving role of the African American man in the late twentieth century, chronicling the experiences, often brutal and enraging, of people surviving in American society. He read from The Stories of John Edgar Wideman and work in progress in Los Angeles on April 6, 1993, 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."

 

Wilbur, Richard (1989)

        * Author:                                   Richard Wilbur

        * Interviewer:                            David St. John

        * Producers and Directors:       Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr

                                                            Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"Richard Wilbur, who served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received two Pulitzer Prizes, is a poet, translator, teacher, critic, lyricist, and editor. Mr. Wilbur reads from New and Collected Poems and unpublished manuscripts and is interviewed by poet David St. John. The reading took place at the University of Southern California on April 16, 1990."

 

Where Poems Come From (1991)

        * Producers and Directors:       Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr

                                                            Metropolitan Pictures and EZTV

        * Running time:                         60 minutes

From the video jacket:

"15 major poets read and discuss the origins of their poetry.

"[Featured authors include] Yehuda Amichai, Lucille Clifton, Victor Hernández Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Joy Harjo, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Octavio Paz, Ishmael Reed, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, and Alice Walker."

 

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