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Chet Raymo
Chet Raymo is a writer, teacher, and naturalist, whose twelve books include Natural Prayers; Skeptics and True Believers; and The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage. Mr. Raymo, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1998, teaches physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts and writes a science column for the Boston Globe. Mr. Raymo read on April 26, 2000 and talked with author Scott Russell Sanders whose books include Hunting for Hope: A Father’s Journey, The Country of Language, and Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home. Mr. Sanders received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1995.
Running Time: 80 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940895
Peter Reading - Video 1992
Peter Reading is one of England’s most inventive and challenging poets. His language is brilliantly original, compassionate, and laced with acid humor. This program documents his first reading in the United States. Mr. Reading, who received a Lannan Literary Award in Poetry, read from Evagatory and Diplopic . The reading and conversation took place in Los Angeles on April 21, 1992.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1992 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940291
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed is a groundbreaking novelist, poet, dramatist, and publisher who received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. Mr. Reed’s style is a raucous mix of comic fantasy and provocative social commentary. On May 26, 1989, Ishmael Reed read from New and Selected Poems and his novel The Terrible Threes at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 157394016
Adrienne Rich Volume I
Adrienne Rich has said the trajectory of her work has been to find the "voice of the individual speaking not just to herself, or to his beloved friend, but to and from a collective, social realm." Born in Baltimore in 1929, Ms. Rich has published more than 15 volumes of poetry. Ms. Rich has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Book Award, and the Tanning Award. Ms. Rich read from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, The Dream of a Common Language, and Midnight Salvage on February 3, 1998. She talked with poet Eavan Boland, the author of Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time and An Origin Like Water.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1992 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940682
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Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore in 1929. Ms. Rich has published more than 15 volumes of poetry, including Midnight Salvage, Dark Fields of the Republic, and An Atlas of the Difficult World. Her essay collections include What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics; Blood, Bread, and Poetry; On Lies, Secrets, and Silence; and Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution. Ms. Rich, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999, read from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, The Dream of a Common Language and Midnight Salvage on February 3, 1998 and talked with noted Irish poet, Eavan Boland.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1998 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940305
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Adrienne Rich, born in Baltimore in 1929, has said that the trajectory of her work has been to find the "voice of the individual speaking not just to herself, or to his beloved friend, but to and from a collective, social realm." Ms. Rich has published more than 16 volumes of poetry, including Midnight Salvage, Dark Fields of the Republic, and An Atlas of the Difficult World. She has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Book Award, and the Tanning Award, as well as a Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999. Ms. Rich read from Dark Fields of the Republic, Poems 1991-1995, and Midnight Salvage on September 29, 1999. She talked with poet Carol Muske whose books of poetry include An Octave above Thunder and Red Trousseau.
Running Time: 85 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940909
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Luis J. Rodriguez is a poet, journalist, and publisher who grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles. Mr. Rodriguez read from his books of poetry, The Concrete River and Poems Across the Pavement, and from his memoir, Always Running, La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. On December 8, 1992, in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1993 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940321
Pattiann Rogers
Pattiann Rogers’ poetry is widely noted for its astonishing, sensual, and accurate detailing of the biological, botanical, and zoological worlds. Ms. Rogers, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1991, read from Geocentric, The Tattooed Lady in the Garden, Splitting and Binding, and unpublished work. She read on May 4, 1993, in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 90 minutes
©1993 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940356
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...HideSebastiao Salgado and Eduardo Galeano
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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Sonia Sanchez is a dynamic poet, playwright, activist, and teacher. Ms. Sanchez read from Homegirls & Handgrenades and Under a Soprano Sky on September 17, 1990, at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1991 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940224
Scott Russell Sanders
Scott Russell Sanders, born in 1945, writes essays that address his relationship to nature, the character of community, and issues of social justice. His books include Staying Put and The Paradise of Bombs. He has also written four novels and four children’s books. Mr. Sanders, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, teaches at Indiana University, Bloomington. On May 20, 1997, Mr. Sanders read from Writing from the Center, In Limestone Country, Staying Put, and new work. He talked with Bernard Cooper, the author of Maps to Anywhere, A Year of Rhymes, and a memoir, Truth Serum.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1997 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940658
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...HideWallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn was born in 1943 in New York City and educated at Harvard and Oxford universities. Mr. Shawn wrote The Fever in 1990 and has performed it throughout Europe and America. It is a provocative and incisive work that portrays the awakening political consciousness of a privileged man. It received an Obie for Best New Play in 1990-1991. His other plays include Our Late Night, which also won an Obie, A Thought in Three Parts, Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and The Designated Mourner. In addition to his work as a playwright, Mr. Shawn has appeared in several films, including Manhattan, Radio Days, Shadows and Fog, Vanya on 42nd Street, and The Princess Bride. He also wrote and starred in the film My Dinner with André, with André Gregory. Mr. Shawn, who lives in New York City, read The Fever on December 15, 1999.
Running Time: 102 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940828
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder’s poetry has been deeply influenced by the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada and more than four decades of Zen Buddhist practice. Mr. Snyder, a recipient of the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes, has published over 25 books of poetry. Gary Snyder read on December 12, 1988, from Axe Handles, Left Out in the Rain, and unpublished manuscripts in Los Angeles. Mr. Snyder talked with students at the Harvard School.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1989 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940070
Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry
Running Time: 89 minutes
©2001 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940836
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Gilbert Sorrentino
Gilbert Sorrentino is an innovative and darkly humorous stylistic virtuoso who has written more than 20 books of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Mr. Sorrentino read from Under the Shadow, a work composed of 59 independent, surreal tales that give readers and listeners a sense of his imaginative brilliance and satiric power. The reading took place on March 2, 1993, in Los Angeles.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1993 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 157394033
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Gary Soto Chicano poet, essayist, and children’s book writer Gary Soto was born and raised in Fresno, California. Mr. Soto has published six poetry collections, including Home Course in Religion, Who Will Know Us?, and The Elements of San Joaquin. He read from his New and Selected Poems in Los Angeles on May 2, 1995, and talked with Alejandro Morales, whose novels include Caras viejas y vino nuevo, Reto en el paraiso, The Brick People, and Death of an Anglo.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1995 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 157394047
Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, has published six books, including The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, Archipelago, River River, and Dazzled. Mr. Sze’s work is informed by his interest in Native American culture, Eastern philosophies, and the nature of scientific inquiry. A second generation Chinese American, Mr. Sze was born in New York City in 1950. Mr. Sze read from The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 on April 1, 1997 and talked with Frank Stewart, poet and editor of the literary journal Manoa.
Running Time: 60 minutes
©1997 Lannan Foundation. All rights reserved.
ISBN 1573940631