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Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forche, the author of three books of poems, meditates in her work on the brutalities and injustices of the 20th century. She edited the anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, which is a testimony to the work of poets from five continents who have lived in extreme situations, from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square. Ms. Forche, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, read the entire text of The Angel of History on May 24, 1994, in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 94 minutes
©1994 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940410
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Richard Ford, born in 1944, in Jackson, Mississippi, has written five novels and two collections of stories, including Women with Men; Independence Day, which received the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award; and The Sportswriter. Mr. Ford, who read from Independence Day on December 10, 1996, said, "It became clear to me that exploring issues [such as] shelter, money, as well as our sense of well-being on the planet, I could write a book that had in it an inquiry about the American spirit." Mr. Ford was interviewed by Gerald Marzorati, Articles Editor of the New York Times.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1997 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940593
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico’s most celebrated writers, has a rich and varied body of work, including criticism, short stories, plays, and essays. Mr. Fuentes, who had served as Mexico’s ambassador to France, read in Spanish and English from The Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, and unpublished manuscripts in Los Angeles on October 2, 1989.
Running Time: 66 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940186
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...HideEduardo Galeano Volume I
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 triology 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.
Running Time: 90 minutes
©1995 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940488
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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.
Running Time: 84 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940720
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Eduardo Galeano, essayist, journalist, historian, and activist, was born in Montevideo, in 1940, and 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 in 1999, read from his work on November 3, 2000 and talked with Sebastião Salgado and Amy Goodman, host of the nationally syndicated radio program, Democracy Now! 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.
Running Time: 138 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940844
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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 MastersŐ 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 and talked with Michael Silverblatt, host of the literary interview program, Bookworm.
Running Time: 101 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940739
Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925, has published three books of poetry, The Great Fires, Monolithos: 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 Monolithos on November 7, 1995.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1996 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940518
Allen Ginsberg
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.
Running Time: 90 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940100
Louise Glück
Louise Glück read 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 read from work in progress that was later collected in Ararat. The reading took place in Los Angeles on April 4, 1988.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940003
Jorie Graham
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 a MacArthur Fellowship, teaches at Harvard University. Ms. Graham read on May 20, 1999, and talked with Michael Silverblatt, producer and host of the literary interview program “Bookworm” broadcast on public radio stations nationwide.
Running Time: 94 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940747
Eamon Grennan
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. Mr. Grennan was interviewed by Cal Bedient, whose book of poetry is entitled Candy Necklace.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1997 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940623
Barbara Guest
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 and talked with Douglas Messerli, founder and publisher of Sun & Moon Press.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1996 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940534
Thom Gunn
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. He talked with Wendy Lesser, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1994 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940429
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951, is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Tribe. She read from The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Secrets from the Center of the World, In Mad Love and War, and She Had Some Horses. Joy Harjo, who is a founder of the band Poetic Justice, played her tenor saxophone during her reading on February 6, 1996. She talked with Greg Sarris, the author of Grand Avenue, a collection of stories about Pomo Indians.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1996 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940526
Robert Hass
Robert Hass, born in San Francisco in 1941, is the author of four collections of poetry, Sun Under Wood, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide, as well as an influential book of essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures. His honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Mr. Hass, who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, served as U.S. Poet Laureate read from 1995-1997. He read on October 22, 1998 and talked with noted poet and Harvard University professor, Jorie Graham.
Running Time: 90 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940755
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney’s poetry bears witness to Ireland’s complex, violent past and present, articulating the conflicts and tender mercies inherent in human experience. Mr. Heaney, who received the Nobel Prize, read from Selected Poems 1966-1987 and talked with Michael Silverblatt, host and producer of the literary interview program "Bookworm." The reading and conversation took place on October 15, 1991, in Los Angeles, California.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1991 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940283
Larry Heinemann
Larry Heinemann was inducted into the Army in 1966, served as a combat infantryman in Vietnam, and returned home "radicalized." Paco’s Story is his novel about the homecoming of a Vietnam veteran for which Mr. Heinemann received a National Book Award. Larry Heinemann read from Paco’s Story on March 12, 1990, in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1990 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940216
Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan, a poet, novelist, and playwright, is a member of the Chickasaw Nation. Ms. Hogan said, "My writing comes from and goes back to the community, both the human and the global community." Ms. Hogan, who teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1994. She read from The Book of Medicines, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, on February 7, 1995, in Los Angeles. Ms. Hogan talked with poet Wendy Rose, whose books include The Halfbreed Chronicles and Other Poems and Now Poof She is Gone.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1995 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940445