CCA Library Videos-Literature

CCA videos check out to Community College of Aurora faculty for one week; videos do not check out to students and community members but can be viewed in the Instructional Resource Center. CCA faculty can reserve videos in advance of planned classroom showings and make arrangements to pick up and return videos by contacting the IRC (303-340-7545, library@ccaurora.edu).  

A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE. YEAR: 1997. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 15 MIN. 813.52 ERN. Each night since he attempted suicide, the old man has come to the cafe - a clean, will-lighted place - to get drunk, staying until closing time at 2:30a.m. But on this night, the younger of the two waiters turns the old man out an hour early, anxious to go home to his wife. How might this confident young man feel if he knew that his somewhat older coworker is also looking for a clean, well-lighted place? This 1994 dramatization of Hemingway's much-anthologized short story about the human need for an outpost in the darkness makes a powerful existential statement about the insufficiency of religion as a source of comfort.

A&P. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: UPDIKE, JOHN. SERIES: HARCOURT BRACE ORIGINAL FILM SERIES IN LITERATURE. 31 MIN. 791.4372 A&P. Portrays a young grocery store clerk, Sammy, who quits his job after witnessing his manager berate three girls for wearing only their bathing suits in the store. His noble act goes unnoticed by the girls, but is a defining moment in his transition from adolescence to adulthood. Includes an interview with John Updike conducted by Donald M. Murray.

A.J. VERDELLE: READING BY A.J. VERDELLE; CONVERSATION WITH NIKKY FINNEY. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #73. 83 MIN. 813.54 A.J. A. J. Verdelle, born in 1960 in Washington, D.C., is the author of The Good Negress, which was a finalist in the Los Angeles Times Book Award for first fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Ms. Verdelle, who received a Whiting Award in 1996, currently teaches at Princeton University. She read on December 3, 1998 and talked with Nikky Finney who has published two books of poetry, On Wings Made of Gauze and Rice, as well as a collection of stories, Heartwood. She teaches at the University of Kentucky.

ADRIENNE RICH, 3 VOLS. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #29/69/77. 205/3 MIN. 809.1 ADR VOLS. 1 - 3. Volume 1: 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 16 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. 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 has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, the National Book Award, and the Tanning Award. In Vol. 1 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. Volume 2: In Vol. 2 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. Volume 3: Adrienne Rich 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." In Vol. 3 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.

AFTERGLOW: A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT FROST. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. 35 MIN. 811.52 AFT. Actor Burgess Meredith discusses Robert Frost's poetry and life and reads these Frost poems: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Pasture, October, Acquainted with the Night, Desert Places, Birches, Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, Masque of Reason (excerpts), A Leaf Trader, After Apple-picking, and The Objection to Being Stepped On.

ALICE WALKER (1989). YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #14. 60 MIN. 813.54 ALI. Alice Walker, who wrote her first book of poems as she traveled 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.

ALICE WALKER (1994). YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 35 MIN. 813.54 ALI. Alice Walker shares with us her remarkable spiritual journey from a sharecropping childhood in rural Georgia to the peace and creativity of her present retreat in Northern California. She reads from her poetry and discusses contemporary America with an anger and urgency rooted in an abiding optimism.

ALLEN GINSBERG: IN CONCERT WITH DONALD WAS. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #9. 87 MIN. 811.54 ALL. 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.

AMIRI BARAKA. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #26. 60 MIN. 810.809287 AMI. Amiri Baraka, born Leroi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934, is a poet, playwright, novelist and essayist who has written about music, politics, and culture. He is also a political activist who was instrumental in establishing the Congress of African People. Mr. Baraka read from Boptrees and unpublished work in this performance, which took place in Los Angeles on February 11, 1991. Amiri Baraka was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams.

ANCESTRAL VOICES. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: POWER OF THE WORD #3. 60 MIN. 811.5 POW PT. 3. This episode includes poets who turn to the past and their own cultural heritage to understand the present. Featured at a poetry reading at New Jersey's Glassboro State College and in extensive interviews with Bill Moyers are Garrett Hongo, Joy Harjo and Mary Tallmountain.

ANTIGONE, 2 COPIES. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: SOPHOCLES: THE THEBAN PLAYS. 120 MIN. 882.01 ANT 1991. Antigone is perhaps the most easily accessible of all the great classical tragedies, its theme clear and contemporary: the conflict between moral and political law. Thus the tale of Oedipus and his family comes to an end-- he himself, his wife Jocasta, his sons, and now , at last, his daughter, all dead. Antigone is not the only victim in this play; Creon too comes to a tragic downfall--although he repents in time, bureaucratic ritual results in the deaths of Creon's son and wife, burdening him with guilt as well as grief.

ANTIGONE, RITES OF PASSION. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SOPHOCLES. 85 MIN. 882.01 ANT 1990. This film by Amy Greenfield is a passionate and innovative retelling of Sophocles' drama of the heroine who defied the state to bury her brother, a casualty of a desert war. Transformed into dynamic action and dance with words and cutting edge music, it is a hymn to extremes of courage and a vision of the eternal struggle between eros and death. With ceaseless movement and music, haunting sound and words, Antigone is an emotional outcry against the world's injustices that climaxes in an end-of-the-world requiem.

ARTHUR SZE. YEAR: 1998. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #66. 60 MIN. 811.54 ART. 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.

AUGUST WILSON. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 22 MIN. 808.82043 AUG. Playwright August Wilson talks about his roots in the black community, how his plays express the African- American experience, how the African heritage of Black Americans is both expressed and repressed in American society today, and the importance of blues as cultural expression.

BARBARA GUEST. YEAR: 1996. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #52. 60 MIN. 811.54 BAR. 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.

BARRY LOPEZ. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #30. 60 MIN. 814.54 BAR. In his books Arctic Dreams, Of Wolves and Men, and Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez eloquently explores man's sense of his place in the natural world. Mr. Lopez received a Lannan Literary Award in 1990. He read from his essay "Rediscovery of North America" and talked with Michael Silverblatt on October 5, 1992, in Los Angeles.

BEOWULF AND THE OLD ENGLISH TRADITION. YEAR: 1984. FORMAT: VHS. 31 MIN. 829.3 BEO. Serves as an introduction to the origins of the English language and literature. Discusses Celtic-British culture, oral epic tradition and examines, in detail, Beowulf.

BLACK ON WHITE. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #5. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 5. Blacks became part of American society when slaves were transported from Africa to work on the plantations of the South. Stripped of a common language and separated from their homeland, blacks created a new variety of English and their own culture. This program examines the history of the blacks in the United States, and shows how the culture they created has influenced white American culture.

BLUE HOTEL. YEAR: 1985. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: CRANE, STEPHEN. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 54 MIN. BLU. The story of a stranger in a small Nebraska town in the 1880's shows the complicity of every person in his own fate and the fate of others. Based on the short story by Stephen Crane.

CARLOS FUENTES. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #17. 66 MIN. 809 CAR. 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. Carlos Fuentes was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams.

CAROLYN FORCHE. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #40. 94 MIN. 811.54 CAR. 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 and talked with Michael Silverblatt on May 24, 1994, in Los Angeles.

CARYL PHILLIPS. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #44. 60 MIN. 809 CAR. Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and has published five works of fiction, including Cambridge and Higher Ground. His powerful work has explored the African diaspora and charted the anatomy of slavery. He read from Crossing the River, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize, on March 7, 1995, in Los Angeles. A writer-in-residence at Amherst College, Mr. Phillips received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1994. He talked with essayist and novelist Pico Iyer, whose books include Video Nights in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, Falling Off the Map, and Cuba and the Night.

CHET RAYMO: READING BY CHET RAYMO; CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #83. 80 MIN. 814.54 CHE. 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.

CIRCLES OF LIGHT: THE DIVINE COMEDY. YEAR: 1998. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: DANTE ALIGHIERI SERIES: MEDIEVAL MIND #4. 49 MIN. 851 CIR. The most celebrated work of Dante is the Divine comedy -- a vision of hell, purgatory and heaven that provides a strangely surrealistic view of medieval attitudes on religious dogma and the price of disobedience. In this program, dramatizations of scenes depicting courtly love, sexual love, love of God, and love of the Virgin are featured.

CLASSICAL AGE. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: GREEKS #2. 56 MIN. 938 CLA. Discusses Greek art and literature of the period as well as Greek thought, linking the classical age to basic elements of western civilization. Burstall's conversations with Greek scholar Kenneth Dover are interspersed with scenes from Greek drama; photographs of ancient ruins, artifacts, and sculpture; and scenes from recent Greek history and modern Greek culture.

COME CELEBRATE WITH ME. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: LANGUAGE OF LIFE #8. 58 MIN. 811.5409 LAN. VOL. 8. In the program, two poets reflect on the cultural legacies they have inherited. Lucille Clifton and David Mura bring their talent and humor to bear as they look at the past and the lives they live in America today.

CZEZLAW MILOSZ, 2 VOLS. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #6/71. 137/2 MIN. 891.8 CSE VOLS. 1 & 2. Volume 1 (60 min.):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 read from The Collected Poems, The Separate Notebooks, and Unattainable Earth. The reading took place on September 12, 1988, in Los Angeles. Mr. Milosz was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams. Volume II (77 min.): 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, and talked with poetry critic and Harvard Professor, Helen Vendler.

DANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE ROAD. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: POWER OF THE WORD #5. 60 MIN. 811.5 POW PT. 5. Focuses on one of America's leading poets, Stanley Kunitz. At age 84, Kunitz is writing some of his best work. The program will feature him at a reading in New York City and in extensive interviews with Bill Moyers at Kunitz's Greenwich Village apartment and at his Provincetown, Massachusetts home.

DANTE'S INFERNO. YEAR: 1996. FORMAT: VHS. 88 MIN. 851 DAN. This ambitious program, produced by the award winning film director Peter Greenaway and internationally- known artist Tom Phillips, brings to life the first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno. Featuring a cast that includes Sir John Gielgud as Virgil, the cantos are not conventionally dramatized. Instead, the feeling of Dante's poem is conveyed through juxtaposed imagery that conjures up a contemporary vision of hell, and its meaning is deciphered by eminent scholars in visual sidebars who interpret Dant'es metaphors and symbolism.

DAVID MALOUF. YEAR: 1998. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #67. 60 MIN. 813.54 DAV. 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 Edmondstone Street and his novels, An Imaginary Life and Remembering Babylon. He talked with Erroll McDonald, the executive editor at Pantheon books.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MILLER, ARTHUR. 135 MIN. 791.4372 DEA. Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize winning social drama about an aging traveling salesman who recognizes the emptiness of his life and commits suicide.

DENISE LEVERTOV. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #37. 60 MIN. 811.54 DEN. Denise Levertov (1923-1997) was born in England and immigrated to the United States in 1948. An influential poet, essayist, editor, and teacher, Ms. Levertov addresses the nature of faith, the imperiled beauty of the natural world, love, and politics in her work. Ms. Levertov, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, read from Evening Train and unpublished work on December 7, 1993, in Los Angeles.

DEREK MAHON. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #38. 45 MIN. 809.1 DER. 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 than 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.

DISCUSSION OF THE LOTTERY. YEAR: 1969. FORMAT: VHS. 10 MIN. 818.5409 DIS. A brief discussion about the content of Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery." Designed to be used with the story and the video of the same name.

DISPLACED PERSON. YEAR: 1977. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: O'CONNOR, FLANNERY. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 58 MIN. DIS. Portrays the difficulties of integration experienced by a Polish refugee who arrives with his family at a Georgia farm in the 1940's. Based on the short story by Flannery O'Connor.

DOLL'S HOUSE. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: IBSEN, HENRIK. 96 MIN. DOLL'S. In this production of Ibsen's play, Nora (Claire Bloom) is the pampered wife of aspiring bank manager Torvald Helmer (Anthony Hopkins) whose career has been financed in part by his wife's funds. In a desperate attempt to hold her family together, Nora once forged a loan signature and now finds herself blackmailed. Torvald's reaction to her forgery is not what she expects and changes her life forever.

DOROTHEA LANGE. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: AGAINST THE ODDS. 13 MIN. 770.92 DOR. Looks at the life and work of Dorothea Lange who abandoned her career as a society photographer and began documenting the effects of the Depression on ordinary Americans. Her images of soup kitchens, bread lines, and hopeless and helpless farm families spoke eloquently of the plight of the poor and brought the distress and desperation of the Depression into the consciousness of the public.

DRAMA OF ANCIENT GREECE: FROM RITUAL TO THEATER. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. 57 MIN. 882.09 DRA. Traces Greek theater from ancient harvest rites to the golden age of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Key scenes from 'Antigone', 'Oedipus Tyrranus', 'Medea', and 'Lysistrata' show how these works remain relevant by exploring the timeless themes of honor, class, gender, sexuality, and politics. Essential concepts such as catharsis, hamartia, and the use of masks and a chorus are discussed. Scholarly commentary by Helene Foley of Barnard College, Jeffrey Henderson of Boston University, Princeton University's Robert Fagles, and Peter Meineck of NYU's Aquila Theatre Company emphasizes the vitality of classical drama and the essential role it played in the everyday lives of the ancient Greeks.

EAMON GRENNAN: IN CONVERSATION WITH CAL BEDIENT. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #59. 60 MIN. 821.914 EAM. 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.

EAVAN BOLAND. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #42. 60 MIN. 809.1 EAV. Eavan Boland, one of the major Irish poets of her generation, is the author of more than nine books of poetry. In her work, she explores the relationship between gender, art, and national identity. Eavan Boland read from In a Time of Violence and Outside History on November 16, 1994, in Los Angeles. Ms. Boland talked with Eloise Klein Healy, whose books of poetry include Artemis in Echo Park and Ordinary Wisdom.

ECCLEIAZUSAE (CLASSICAL COMEDY). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: ARISTOPHANES. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 58 MIN. 882.01 CLA. Presents adaptations designed to convey the differing characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy.

EDNA O'BRIEN: IN CONVERSATION WITH TOBIAS WOLFF. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #63. 60 MIN. 823.912 EDN. Edna O’Brien is a novelist and short story writer who has published more than 18 books, including Down by the River, House of Splendid Isolation, The Country Girls Trilogy, and Lantern Slides. Described as a "poet of heartbreak," Ms. O’Brien draws on her childhood in rural Ireland to write stories about private sorrows, passion, and sexuality. Ms. O’Brien read from the story "Brother" and from Down by the River on May 12, 1998. She talked with Tobias Wolff, the author of two memoirs, This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh’s Army, as well as three collections of stories, including The Night in Question.

EDUARDO GALEANO AND SEBASTIAO SALGADO: READING BY EDUARDO GALEANO & SEBASTIAO SALGADO; CONVERSATION WITH AMY GOODMAN. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #86. 138 MIN. 863 EDU. 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.

EDUARDO GALEANO, 2 VOLS. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #47/75. 174/2 MIN. 863 EDU. Volume I (90 min.): 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. Volume II (84 min.): 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, and talked with noted author, Lawrence Weschler.

EDWARD ALBEE. YEAR: 1996. FORMAT: VHS. 52 MIN. 812.54 EDW. This program looks back and explores the work of Edward Albee, from 1962's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to 1994's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Three Tall Women. Albee himself talks about the influence of his unusual childhood upon his work, his years in Greenwich Village, and his method of writing.

EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN AND NUALA NI DHOMHNAILL: IN CONVERSATION WITH DILLON JOHNSTON. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #62. 60 MIN. 811.52 EIL. Eilean Ni Chuilleanain was born in 1942 in County Cork, Ireland. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, including The Brazen Serpent and Acts and Monuments. Ms. Ní Chuilleanáin read from The Second Voyage, The Brazen Serpent, The Magdalene Sermon, and new poems. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, born in 1952, grew up in the Irish speaking areas of West Kerry and Tipperary. She has written two books in Irish, An Dealg Droighin and Fear Suaithinseach, both of which won the Sean O'Riordain Award and the Arts Council Prize for Poetry. Ms. Ni Dhomhnaill read from Pharaoh’s Daughter, The Astrakhan Cloak, and new poems. They read on April 29, 1997, and spoke with Dillon Johnston, founder and director of Wake Forest University Press. He is the author of Irish Poetry After Joyce.

ELIZABETH BISHOP. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #1. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 1. From childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, this program illustrates the geographical soul of Bishop's life and works with scenes from her poems. Mark Strand, James Merrill, Octavio Paz, and Mary McCarthy offer personal memories and commentary.

EMILY DICKINSON. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #3. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 3. Dramatic scenarios and New England landscapes illuminate the passionate genius of Dickinson, whose poems represent a broad range of imaginative experience. Adrienne Rich, Joyce Carol Oates, and Dickinson biographer Richard A. Sewall comment on the poet's life and work.

ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #1. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 1. This program explores how the English language continues to change as it absorbs new words and ideas from technology, business, and popular culture.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FAMOUS AUTHORS. 30 MIN. 813.092 ERN. Traces the life and literary career of Ernest Hemingway, using photographs and views of places associated with his life.

ERNESTO CARDENAL. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #23. 60 MIN. 868.99225 ERN. Ernesto Cardenal is an ordained Catholic priest, a revolutionary, and an acclaimed poet who champions the spiritual and intellectual values of the Nicaraguan people. On January 28, 1991, Ernesto Cardenal read in Spanish from Cántico Cósmico, his masterful 600-page poem. The English translations were read by actor Edward Asner and poet Rubén Martínez, who also interviewed Ernesto Cardenal.

EZRA POUND. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #10. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 10. The most controversial of American poets, artistic catalyst, legendary confidant, and author of brilliant cantos, Ezra Pound and his poetry and role in the modernist movement are explored by friends and critics.

FIELD OF TIME. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: LANGUAGE OF LIFE #3. 58 MIN. 811.5409 LAN. VOL. 3. Two courageous women artists who have turned potential tragedy into triumph are testimony to the healing powers of poetry. Award-winning authors Sandra McPherson and Linda McCarriston revel in the beauty of love, family, and nature, exploring and elevating their lives through wondrous and passionate words.

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ. YEAR: 1998. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: CONVERSATIONS WITH LATIN AMERICAN WRITERS. 44 MIN. 863 GAB. In this interview with Silvia Lemus, Gabriel García Márquez discusses his life and work from a highly personal plane.

GALWAY KINNELL. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #2. 60 MIN. 811.54 GAL. One of the most distinguished and influential poets of his generation, Galway Kinnell reads from his body of work, including poems from What a Kingdom It Was, Body Rags, The Book of Nightmares, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, The Past, and Selected Poems, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1983. Galway Kinnell was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams. The reading took place in Los Angeles on April 18, 1988.

GARY SNYDER, 2 VOLS. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #8. 120/2 MIN. 811.54 GAR. 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 and was interviewed by Lewis MacAdams.

GARY SOTO. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #46. 60 MIN. 811.54 GAR. 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.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 35 MIN. 821.1 GEO. An introduction to the forms, themes, and major works of medieval writing with special emphasis on the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer. Shows how the epic developed into the romance; the importance of Arthurian themes; allegory and its attraction. Covers Pearl, Layamon's Brut, Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Mort d'Arthur, and Piers Plowman. Coverage of Chaucer's work includes the Romaun de la Rose, Troylus and Cryseyde, the Retraction, the General Prologue, and the structure and characters of The Canterbury Tales.

GILBERT SORRENTINO. YEAR: 1993. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #32. 60 MIN. 818.5209 GIL. 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. Gilbert Sorrentino was interviewed by Michael Silverblatt.

GISH JEN: READING BY GISH JEN; CONVERSATION WITH DON LEE. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #81. 80 MIN. 813.54 GIS. Gish Jen is the author of a collection of stories, Who's Irish? and two novels, Typical American and Mona in the Promised Land. Ms. Jen was raised in Scarsdale, New York, and was educated at Harvard College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Ms. Jen received a Lannan Literary Award in 1999. She read on March 1, 2000 and discussed her work with writer and editor, Don Lee.

GLASS MENAGERIE. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 134 MIN. 791.43 GLA. The touching drama about people who live on the fine line between fantasy and reality tells the story of Amanda, a strong willed women who attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter Laura. Although dominated by her mother, Laura finds solace through the attentions of her troubled brother Tom and Jim, a "gentleman caller."

GOLDEN HONEYMOON. YEAR: 1985. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: LARDNER, RING. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 52 MIN. GOL. Based on the story of the same title by Ring Lardner, about an elderly couple who takes a winter vacation in St. Petersburg, Fla., in the 1920's and discovers that 50 years of marriage have not prevented the arousal of old jealousies nor diminished the chances of an even deeper love.

GRACE PALEY. YEAR: 1996. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #53. 60 MIN. 811.5 GRA. Grace Paley, born in 1922 in the Bronx, New York, is a poet and short story writer. Her three books of stories, The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, and Later the Same Day, were published together in The Collected Stories. A Lannan Literary Award recipient, Grace Paley read three stories, "Friends," "Love," and "Mother" on May 7, 1996. Ms. Paley talked with Carol Muske Dukes, whose books of poetry include Red Trousseau and Applause.

GREEK BEGINNING. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: GREEKS #1. 52 MIN. 938 GRE. Introduces the civilization of the ancient Greeks and gives an overview of the four part series. In this first part of the series, Burstall's conversations with Greek scholar Kenneth Dover are interspersed with photographs of ancient Greek sculpture, artifacts, and ruins of ancient buildings; panoramic scenes of the Greek countryside' dramatized scenes from Greek drama; and monologues from Greek history and philosophy.

GREEK EPIC. YEAR: 1984. FORMAT: VHS. 40 MIN. 883.01 GRE. This program provides a fundamental understanding and appreciation of the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

GUID SCOTS TONGUE. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #4. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 4. This program details the culture of the lowland Scots and how it moved, first to Northern Ireland and then to the United States. It also explores the culture of the highland Scots, a group with a separate history, language and culture.

HAIKU, SHORT POETRY OF JAPAN. YEAR: 1981. FORMAT: VHS. 28 MIN. 895.6 HAI. Discusses the meaning and uses of haiku and its role in the lives of the Japanese people. Provides examples of newly created as well as traditional haiku poems and encourages viewers to create their own poetry.

HAMLET (BBC), PARTS 1 & 2. YEAR: 1987. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: COMPLETE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 222 MIN. 822.33 HAM. PTS. 1- 2. In this richly costumed production of William Shakespeare's play, the greatest tragedy ever written maintains all the tension of a murder mystery. Performers include Derek Jacobi as Hamlet, Claire Bloom as Gertrude, and Patrick Steward as Claudius.

HAMLET (MEL GIBSON). YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. 135 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 822.33 HAM. Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in the treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immoral tale of high adventure and evil deeds. Stars Mel Gibson as Hamlet, Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Paul Scofield as the ghost of Hamlet's father, Ian Holmes as Polonius and Helena Bonham-Carter as Ophelia.

HARRISON BERGERON. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. 99 MIN. 792 HAR. The year is 2053. The Second American Revolution has been won and equality has finally been achieved-- by making the entire population middle-of-the-road! Everybody is average-- except for Harrison Bergeron. A hopelessly bright young man, he is destined for brain surgery to correct his superior intellect-- until he concocts a plan to liberate the people through a Third American Revolution. But there's always one problem with changing the world... it may not want to be changed.

HART CRANE. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #2. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 2. Diverse locations and dramatizations of his life illustrate Crane's poetry and his greatest work, "The Bridge." Contemporaries Derek Walcott, Richard Howard, and Malcolm Cowley explore Crane's brief life and rich literary legacy.

HAYDEN CARRUTH. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #36. 60 MIN. 809 HAY. Hayden Carruth is a distinguished poet, essayist, and editor. He has been described as both a people's poet, who writes about our common welfare, and also a poet’s poet, "a virtuoso of form from the sonnet to free verse, from medieval metrics to jazz ones." --The Nation Mr. Carruth read from his Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991, which received a National Book Critics Circle Award, on November 9, 1993, in Los Angeles. He talked about his poetry with Michael Silverblatt.

HEART OF THINGS. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: LANGUAGE OF LIFE #7. 58 MIN. 811.5409 LAN. VOL. 7. Three poets who revel in language's ability to reveal culture and history, Adrienne Rich, Victor Hernandez Cruz, and Michael S. Harper are changing the way poetry is heard, read and absorbed.

HEDDA GABLER (THEATRE OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: IBSEN, HENRIK. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 60 MIN. 839.82 THE. Presents an abridged version of Ibsen's play, Hedda Gabler, the story of a woman's tormented search for self-fulfillment in a world dominated by men.

HENRY IV, PART 1. YEAR: 1987. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: COMPLETE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 147 MIN. 822.33 HEN. Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play of Prince Hal and his boisterous companion Falstaff entitled King Henry IV, Part one. Performers include Jon Finch as Henry IV, Anthony Quayle as Falstaff, and David Gwillim as Henry, Prince of Wales.

HERE IN THE MIND. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: LANGUAGE OF LIFE #5. 58 MIN. 811.5409 LAN. VOL. 5. Gary Snyder and Daisy Zamora have each engaged in battle. The staunch defender of the natural world and the soldier in the Nicaraguan civil war share the same weapon, the power of language to change the way we think, feel and act.

HEROES AND MEN. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: GREEKS #3. 60 MIN. 938 HER. Examines the world of the Greek gods and heroes depicted by the classical Greek poetry and tragic dramas. It is a world like ours filled with pain, laughter, hatred, love and choice.

I'M A FOOL. YEAR: 1985. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 38 MIN. I'M. Tells how a young man's job, his relationship with his fellow workers and his desire to impress those around him, mark the end of his adolescence and his becoming a man. Based on the short story by Sherwood Anderson.

ISABEL ALLENDE. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. 52 MIN. 863 ISA. When her daughter became ill and fell into a coma, Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family "in case Paula wakes up and has no memory." Isabel Allende tells the story of her life and the events in it.

ISABEL ALLENDE: THE WOMEN'S VOICE IN LATIN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 56 MIN. 863 ISA. Isabel Allende, the most recent Latin-American novelist to bestride the world literary stage -- and the first Latin-American women -- describes the emotions that inform her fiction and the events that set them in motion. Niece of the deposed (and presumably assassinated) Chilean Marxist president Salvador Allende, she fled Chile in terror and blossomed in exile to write of the love, hate, and revenge that shaped the lives of people she knew, or dreamt about: her characters, her own legend in the making.

ISHMAEL REED. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #15. 60 MIN. 813.54 ISH. 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. Ishmael Reed was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams.

JACK GILBERT. YEAR: 1996. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #50. 60 MIN. 811.54 JAC. 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. Mr. Gilbert talked with Jody Allen Randolph, critic and teacher.

JAMAICA KINCAID. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #84. 81 MIN. 813.54 JAM. Jamaica Kincaid was born and raised in Antigua, West Indies. She has written three novels, The Autobiography of My Mother, Lucy, and Annie John, and a collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River. She is also the author of My Garden (Book) and My Brother. Ms. Kincaid, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1998, read on May 17, 2000. She talked with the noted novelist and essayist, William Gass, who received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.

JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. 87 MIN. 305.896 JAM. Captures on film the passionate intellect and courageous writing of a man who was born black, impoverished, gifted and gay and who was both a major twentieth century author, a Civil Rights activist, and a prophetic voice calling black and white Americans to confront their shared racial tragedy.

JANE EYRE. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: DVD. 100 MIN. 791.4372 JAN. Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.

JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL. YEAR: 1979. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 57 MIN. JIL. Tells the story of a matriarch, who on her death bed, struggles to resolve tormenting memories of a past she had long since buried. Based on the short story by Katherine Anne Porter.

JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN. YEAR: 1993. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #33. 60 MIN. 813.54 JOH. 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.

JOLLY CORNER. YEAR: 1985. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: JAMES, HENRY. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 43 MIN. JOL. Tells how an expatriate American who fled the Civil War returns after 35 years to a highly commercialized America that both attracts and repels him. Based on the short story by Henry James.

JORIE GRAHAM: READING BY JORIE GRAHAM ; CONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL SILVERBLATT. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #76. 94 MIN. 811.54 JOR. 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.

JOY HARJO. YEAR: 1996. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #51. 60 MIN. 811.54 JOY. 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.

JOY THAT KILLS. YEAR: 1984. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: CHOPIN, KATE. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 56 MIN. JOY. Portrays the world of the upper-class Creole society which dominated New Orleans in the 1870's. Based on the short story by Kate Chopin.

JOYCE CAROL OATES. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 28 MIN. 813.54 JOY. When her feminist appreciation of the ultimate masculine sport, On Boxing appeared, the book surprised many of Joyce Carol Oates' readers and critics. It shouldn't have. Her fiction is a place where brutality and danger are never far away, where security is an illusion and civilized behavior a thin veneer, and where power is the key to human relationships. In this program, Joyce discusses her work as both a writer and teacher, her craft and methods, and the major themes of her novels, short stories, and poems.

JOYCE, YEATS AND WILDE. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 40 MIN. 820.9 JOY. Irish poet Seamus Heaney, and Richard Ellmann, a professor at Oxford University, discuss the lives and works of Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and James Joyce and share their own insights into these Irish literary greats. The dialogue uses documentary material pertaining to Joyce, Yeats, and Wilde, and was filmed at such literary landmarks as the Hill of Howth, Sandymount Green, Trinity College, and the Joyce Tower at Sandycove.

KATE CHOPIN: FIVE STORIES OF AN HOUR. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. 26 MIN. KATE. This program consists of five versions of the same short story, "The Story of an Hour," which examines the behavior and feelings of a woman on the day she is informed of her husband's death. The program includes dramatizations by Kathleen Potter, David Stafford, and Michelene Wandor.

KAY BOYLE. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #13. 60 MIN. 813.52 KAY. Kay Boyle (1902-1992), who published more than 30 books of fiction, criticism, and poetry in her lifetime, was an eloquent advocate for human rights in her work and life. This program documents her final public reading. Kay Boyle read from This Is Not a Letter and Other Poems and Testament for My Students in Los Angeles on September 11, 1989, and was interviewed by novelist Shawn Wong.

KAZUO ISHIGURO. YEAR: 1996. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #49. 60 MIN. 895.6 KAZ. Kazuo Ishiguro, born in Nagasaki, Japan, and raised in England, is one of the most brilliant novelists of his generation. He is the author of four books, including A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, and The Remains of the Day, which received the Booker Prize. Mr. Ishiguro read from his fourth novel, The Unconsoled, on October 19, 1995 and talked with journalist and novelist Pico Iyer.

KIDS' POETRY. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: POETRY PROCESS. 16 MIN. 808.0681 POE. Designed for viewing by children themselves, shows the poetry process in action -- the results, the excitement, and the fun that writing poetry can be.

KING LEAR (JAMES EARL JONES). YEAR: 1974. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 180 MIN. 822.33 KIN 1974. James Earl Jones reprises his King Lear in this television adaptation of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king divides his kingdom between his daughters. Cast: James Earl Jones (King Lear), Douglass Watson (Kent), Paul Sorvino (Gloucester), Raul Julia (Edmund), Rosalind Cash (Goneril), Lee Chamberlin (Cordelia), Ellen Holly (Regan), and other performers./ Recorded in live performance in Central Park, New York City.

KING LEAR (LAURENCE OLIVIER). YEAR: 1984. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. SERIES: THEATER SERIES. 158 MIN. 822.33 KIN 1984. Presents William Shakespeare's play about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely, Anna Calder-Marshall, Jeremy Kemp, Robert Lang, Robert Lindsay, Leo McKern, David Threlfall, Dorothy Tutin, John Hurt, Diana Rigg.

KURT VONNEGUT'S MONKEY HOUSE, 3 VOLUMES. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: VONNEGUT, KURT. 182/3 MIN. 791.4372 KUR VOLS. 1-3. Volume 1: All the kings horses / director, Allan King ; writer, Stan Daniels (1991, 25 min.) -- The Euphio question / Director, Gilbert Shilton ; writer, Jeffery Cohen (1991, 25 min.) -- Next door / Director, Paul Shapiro ; writer, Jeremy Hole. (1991, 25 min.). Volume 2: Epicac / director, Stan Daniels (1992, 25 min.) -- Fortitude / Director, Wayne Tourell (1992, 25 min.). Volume 3: More stately mansions / writer, Chris Haddock (1993, 25 min.) -- The Foster portfolio / writer, Jeremy Hole (1993, 25 min.). Originally broadcast as 3 episodes on the television series Kurt Vonnegut's monkey house in 1991. Based on original stories by Kurt Vonnegut.

LANGSTON HUGHES. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #6. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 6. Hughes wrote of the beauty, dignity, and heritage of blacks in America. Interviews, music and dance performances convey his work and influence, discussed by James Baldwin and biographer Arnold Rampersad.

LARRY HEINEMANN. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #20. 60 MIN. 813.54 LAR. 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 and was interviewed by Ken Lincoln.

LEGENDS OF GREECE AND ROME. YEAR: 1985. FORMAT: VHS. 35 MIN. 292 LEG. This film talks about the heroes of Greece and Rome. It also covers some of the other legends in the classical age on great wars, heroic adventures and the founding of cities.

LESLIE M. SILKO. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. 60 MIN. 970.1 LES. Rarer even than Native American writers known outside their own communities are Native American women writers. The best known is Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work is strongly rooted in her own matrilineal tribal background. Like all writing of lasting value, it uses particular experiences and places to reveal universal truths. Here, Silko discusses her own background and the interrelationship between her smaller, immediate Indian world and the larger brutal surrounding world.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, 4 PARTS. YEAR: 1982. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: DICKENS, CHARLES. 479 MIN. 791.4572 LIF. Television production of the stage play, Nicholas Nickleby, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, chronicling the experiences of a young man in 19th century England.

LINDA HOGAN. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #43. 60 MIN. 809.1 LIN. 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.

LIVING LANGUAGE. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: POWER OF THE WORD #2. 60 MIN. 811.5 POW PT. 2. This episode features James Autry and Quincy Troupe who both work with the oral tradition to lift poetry off the page and bring it into the community.

LI-YOUNG LEE, 2 VOLS. YEAR: 2000. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #45/82. 145/2 MIN. 809.1 LI-Y VOLS. 1 - 2. Volume 1: Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, where his parents lived in exile from China. He and his family fled to the United States in 1964 from Indonesia, where his father was a political prisoner. In his two collections, Rose and The City in Which I Love You, Li-Young Lee explores cultural politics, desire, and loss in work that is hauntingly lyrical. He has said, "I am the stories that I tell." In Vol. 1 Mr. Lee, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, read from his two books of poetry and from his memoir The Winged Seed, on April 18, 1995, in Los Angeles. He was interviewed by novelist, editor, and critic Shawn Wong. Volume 2: In Vol. 2 Mr. Lee read from his work on March 29, 2000 and talked with Michael Silverblatt, the host and producer of the literary interview program "Bookworm", broadcast on public radio stations nationwide.

LOADED WEAPON. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #8. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 8. This program tells the story of the gradual decline of Irish Gaelic. It explains how the literary tradition of Ireland has continued, despite the loss of the country's original language. It shows how Irish writers, especially James Joyce, have taken the English language and molded their own variety of politically-loaded speech.

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: O'NEILL, EUGENE. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 54 MIN. 812 MOD. Discovery is forced upon delusion and truth upon lies to produce a poetic portrait of O'Neill's morphine- addicted mother and her tragic family.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN THE CREATION OF DRAMA. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. 35 MIN. 812.54 LOR. Traces the artistic growth and vision of the black playwright Lorraine Hansberry, largely in her words and in her own voice. Describes the author's childhood in Chicago, student days at the University of Wisconsin, work as a journalist in Harlem, life as a housewife in Greenwich Village, and success on Broadway.

LOUISE GLUCK. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #1. 60 MIN. 811.54 LOU. 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. She was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams. The reading took place in Los Angeles on April 4, 1988.

LOVE'S CONFUSING JOY. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: LANGUAGE OF LIFE #2. 58 MIN. 811.5409 LAN. VOL. 2. Coleman Barks has dedicated much of his life's work to bringing the poems of 13th century Islamic mystic Jelaluddin Rumi to contemporary American audiences. In poems that are alternately ecstatic, wise, and hilarious, the prolific Rumi comes alive in the 20th century.

LUCILLE CLIFTON, 2 VOLS. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #54/79. 135/2 MIN. 811.54 LUC. Volume I (60 min.): Lucille Clifton has published ten books of poetry, including Blessing the Boats, winner of the National Book Award in 2000, The Book of Light, The Terrible Stories, Quilting, Next, and Good Times. Ms. Clifton, who has also written numerous children’s books, received a 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. She read from The Book of Light and The Terrible Stories on May 21, 1996. Ms. Clifton was interviewed by Quincy Troupe, whose five books of poetry include Avalanche, Weather Reports, and Snake-Back Solos. (60 min.). Volume II (75 min.): Lucille Clifton has published ten poetry books, including Blessing the Boats, winner of the National Book Award; The Book of Light; The Terrible Stories; Quilting; Next; and Good Times. Ms. Clifton has said, "I've always been a person who found more interesting the stories between the stories. I've always wondered the hows and the whys to things. Why is this like this? What has gone into making us who we are? Is it good or not so good? What is destroying us? What will keep us warm?" Ms. Clifton received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1996. She discussed her work with writer Denise Chavez, on December 8, 1999.

LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ. YEAR: 1993. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #31. 60 MIN. 809.1 LUI. 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, he was interviewed by Michael Silverblatt.

MACBETH (BBC). YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 148 MIN. 822.33 MAC 1982. In this classic story of murder, witchcraft, and revenge, Macbeth, driven by overwhelming ambition and an unscrupulous wife murders the King of Sotland and claims the throne for himself. He begins a violent reign of terror and execution in a desperate attempt to maintain his power. Cast: Nicol Williamson, Jane Lapotaire, Mark Dignam, Tony Doyle.

MACBETH (ORSON WELLES). YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 112 MIN. 822.33 MAC 1948. Shakespeare's Macbeth with Orson Welles in the title role. Moved by his own burning ambition and that of his unscrupulous wife, Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland and seizes his crown. But his insatiable lust for power soon leads Macbeth towards his own destruction.

MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: TWAIN, MARK. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 40 MIN. MAN. Based on the story of the same title by Mark Twain, about a small town visited by a stranger who concocts a scheme to test the honesty of the town's leading citizens.

MARIANNE MOORE. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #8. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 8. Funny and formidable, the paradoxes of the poet and her work are analyzed by critics and friends including Monroe Wheeler, Grace Shulman and Patricia Willis. Her most memorable poems display her power of observation and moral force.

MARK DOTY. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #56. 60 MIN. 811.54 MAR. Mark Doty’s five books of poetry include My Alexandria, which won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award; Atlantis; and Sweet Machine. Mr. Doty said he wrote Heaven’s Coast, a memoir about his life with his partner who died of AIDS, when he realized "it would have felt in some way dishonest to the gravity and intensity of this time of grief to attempt to order it, to shape it in that very controlled way that poems are shaped. Potentially, it was an infinite book." Mr. Doty read from Atlantis, Heaven’s Coast, and Sweet Machine and talked with Eloise Klein Healy, whose poetry books include of Artemis in Echo Park and Ordinary Wisdom.

MEDEA. YEAR: 1983. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: JEFFERS, ROBINSON AFTER EURIPIDES. 87 MIN. 791.4372 MED. Euripides' classic tragedy about a proud woman betrayed by the man she loves. Adapted by Robinson Jeffers after Euripides. Filmed at the Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.

MEDIEVAL DRAMA FROM SANCTUARY TO STAGE. YEAR: 2000. FORMAT: VHS. 48 MIN. 792.0902 MED. Traces the development of medieval drama, from Hildegard von Bingen's musical morality play Ordo Virtutum (The ritual of the virtues) to the seminal Everyman. Featuring extended excerpts from these influential works, as well as from The second shepherd's play and the 1998 staging of the Mystery Cycle in York, England, the video also establishes the genre's socioreligious context.

MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE: READING BY MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE; CONVERSATION WITH ARTHUR SZE. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #74. 72 MIN. 811.54 MEI. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Fish Souls, Summits Move with the Tide, Random Possessions, Sphericity, and The Four Year Old Girl. Her work has been described as "spiritual exercises in physical form." Ms. Berssenbrugge has received fellowships from the NEA and two American Book Awards from the Before Columbus Foundation. She read on April 1, 1999, and discussed her work with Lannan Poetry Award winner, Arthur Sze.

MICHAEL ONDAATJE: IN CONVERSATION WITH CARYL PHILLIPS. YEAR: 1997. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #64. 90 MIN. 818.5407 MIC. Michael Ondaatje, born in Sri Lanka in 1943, is a novelist, poet, and playwright. He received the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient. Mr. Ondaatje read from new poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, and Running in the Family on December 17, 1996. Mr. Ondaatje was interviewed by Caryl Phillips, the author of six novels, including The Nature of Blood, Crossing the River, Cambridge, and Higher Ground. Mr. Phillips received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (BBC PRODUCTION). YEAR: 1987. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. SERIES: COMPLETE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 112 MIN. 822.33 MID 1987. In this presentation of William Shakespeare's play, Hermia is promised to wed Demetrius, but she loves Lysander who escapes with her to the forest. Demetrius follows them with Helena, who live him. Oberon and Titania of the fairies are arguing. Oberon's servant Puck applies to various people a love-potion which creates a bizarre series of alliances and arguments, but all ends happily. Performers include Helen Mirren as Titania and Peter McEnery as Oberon.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (MOVIE VERSION WITH CALISTA FLOCKHART). YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 120 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 822.33 MID 1999. A stellar cast, headed by Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Kline, bring Shakespeare's romantic comedy to life. When two pairs of starcrossed lovers, a feuding pair of supernatural sprites and a love potion gone awry all come together in an enchanted moonlit forest, the result is a delightful mix of merriment and magic.

MILES GLORIOSUS (CLASSICAL COMEDY). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: PLAUTUS. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 58 MIN. 882.01 CLA. Presents adaptations designed to convey the differing characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy.

MINDS OF MEN. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: GREEKS #4. 52 MIN. 938 MIN. Burstall's conversations with Greek scholar Kenneth Dover are interspersed with art works, scenes from modern Greece, shots of ancient ruins, and dramatized scenes and monologues. Considers the life and teachings of Socrates and Plato, and the writings of Herodotus and Thucydides.

MISANTHROPE (COMEDY OF MANNERS). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOLIERE. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 48 MIN. 842.4 COM. Presents an abridged performance of Moliere's comedy, The Misanthrope. introduction explains the comedy of manners as an art form.

MOTHER NIGHT. YEAR: 2000. FORMAT: DVD. AUTHOR: VONNEGUT, KURT. 113 MIN. 791.4372 MOT. An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.

MOTHER TONGUE. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #2. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 2. This program explores how English developed as a language. It began as the language of the Angles, Saxons, Frisians, and Jutes. When these tribes invaded the British Isles in 49 A.D., the natives were driven into remote areas and the Anglo-Saxon language was established. Two later invasions greatly influenced the development of English: one by the Vikings in 793 A.D. and the second by the Normans in 1066 A.D. The program traces these invasions and shows how the people of the British Isles developed a sense of nationalism along with a national language.

MUSE OF FIRE. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #3. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 3. This program focuses on the emergence of the English nation and the spread of its language into the new world. It also examines the lifestyles of the people who came to the United States in the1600's to establish settlements.

MUVVER TONGUE. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #7. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 7. This program examines the language of London's working class and shows how Cockney speech spread across the world. It also takes a look at Australian literature, which is rich in slang and colloquial speech.

NEXT YEAR'S WORDS, A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE. YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #9. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 9. This program examines the cultures and political ambitions of many former colonies and uses the modification of the English language as one example of how newly independent countries shape their own future.

N-TOWN PASSION. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. 69 MIN. N-TOWN. This version of the passion play is a filmed stage production done at the University of California at Irvine between 1985 and 1987. Text has been modernized and abridged by Edgar Schell and is based on the title Ludus Coventriae or The Plaie Called Corpus Christi published by the Early English Text Society. It presents that portion of the traditional passion story from Jesus' presentation before Annas and Caiphas to his crucifixion.

OCTAVIO PAZ. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #7. 57 MIN. 861.62 OCT. Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. He read from The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz 1957-1987, in Spanish, with his translator Eliot Weinberger, who read the English versions of the poems. The reading took place on October 18, 1988, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Paz was interviewed in English by poet Lewis MacAdams and in Spanish by Professor Enrico Santi.

OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, 2 PARTS. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: SOPHOCLES: THE THEBAN PLAYS. EA. 120 MIN. 882.01 OED. Bearer of an almost unspeakable, immutable fate, Oedipus yet feels himself a man chosen--that is, favored-- by the gods. Now an old man, blind and outcast, he wanders through Greece guided by his daughter Anitgone until he comes to Colonus, where he knows he will die. Protected by the ruler of Thebes against the armies of Creon who have come in pursuit, Oedipus curses his son Polynices for indifference and ingratitude.

OEDIPUS THE KING. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: SOPHOCLES: THE THEBAN PLAYS. 120 MIN. 882.01 OED. Sophocles often won the leading prize at the Dionysia, the principal dramatic festival of Athens; but Oedipus the King was a runner-up of the second prize. Posterity, however,considers the play second to none. This play recounts the beginning of the Oedipus saga, setting the stage and creating the characters who will continue the story to its conclusion in Antigone.

ORESTEIA: AGAMEMNON, 2 PARTS. YEAR: 1983. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: AESCHYLUS. 90 MIN. 882 AES. Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan War. His queen, Clytemnestra, welcomes him but intends to avenge their daughter Iphigenia, sacrificed by Agamemnon to secure a favorable wind toward Troy; Aegisthus, Clytemnestra's lover, will avenge the murder of his brothers by Agamemnon's father. This is the origin of the blood feud.

ORESTEIA: CHOEPHORI (LIBATION BEARERS), 2 PARTS. YEAR: 1983. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: AESCHYLUS. 70 MIN. 882 AES. Orestes and Electra swear to avenge their father's death, as directed by Apollo. Disguised as strangers, Orestes and Pylades enter Agamemnon's palace; Orestes first kills Aegisthus and then his mother. Threatened by the Furies, he flees to seek Apollo's help.

ORESTEIA: EUMENIDES (THE FURIES), 2 PARTS. YEAR: 1983. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: AESCHYLUS. 70 MIN. 882 AES. Apollo offers protection to Orestes while the ghost of Clytemnestra rouses the Furies to bring her murderer to justice. Athena, goddess of wisdom, judges between Orestes, who killed his mother to avenge his father, and the Furies, who demand revenge.

OTHELLO, 4 PARTS. YEAR: 1981. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. SERIES: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS. 240 MIN. 822.33 OTH. Presents Othello, William Shakespeare's play about a man whose jealously of his wife leads to tragic consequences.

OTHELLO. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 124 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 822.33 OTH. Promote someone else to the rank of lieutenant? Over lago's dead body! And more pointedly, over the dead bodies of nearly everyone ensnared in lago's plot of green-eyed revenge. Jealously, passion, misplaced trust: the themes of Shakespeare's towering tragedy permeate this fresh adaptation that moves like a swiftly plunged dagger and features actors filled with the fire of their craft.

PATTIANN ROGERS. YEAR: 1993. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #34. 90 MIN. 809.1 PAT. 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 and talked with Michael Silverblatt.

PAUL WEST. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #35. 60 MIN. 809 PAU. 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 with Michael Silverblatt took place on September 21, 1993, in Los Angeles.

PAULE MARSHALL. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #39. 60 MIN. 809 PAU. 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.

PETER MATTHIESSEN: IN CONVERSATION WITH HOWARD NORMAN. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #61. 77 MIN. 811.08 PET. 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 and talked with Howard Norman whose books include The Museum Guard, The Bird Artist, and The Northern Lights.

PETER READING. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #28. 90 MIN. 823.912 PET. 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 and talked with Christopher Hitchens and Michael Silverblatt. The reading and conversation took place in Los Angeles on April 21, 1992.

PHILIP LEVINE. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #5. 60 MIN. 811.54 PHI. Philip Levine, who received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is a poet of the American working class and underclass. He reads from his Selected Poems, Sweet Will, and A Walk with Tom Jefferson. The reading took place on June 20, 1988, in Los Angeles. Mr. Levine was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams.

PIONEERS! O PIONEERS! YEAR: 1986. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: STORY OF ENGLISH #6. 60 MIN. 420 STO PT. 6. This program provides background about the development of a distinctive American language and American literature. It begins with the Revolutionary War and the founding fathers' desire to infuse American English with new inventiveness. It also explores the impact on the language of the flood of Jewish, German, and Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth century.

POETRY, 2 PARTS. YEAR: 1974. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: KET/GED LITERATURE STRAND #12/13. EA. 27 MIN. 378.1662 KET VOLS. 12-13. Presents poetry as a pleasurable way to express feelings and describe experiences.

PROLOGUE TO CHAUCER. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 29 MIN. 821.1 PRO. Reaches out to students of The Canterbury Tales to relate its characters and themes to everyday life in late 14th century England. Uses period art and location photography to retrace the April pilgrimage to Archbishop Becket's shrine at Canterbury; reads excerpts from various tales including the beginning in Middle English.

PROSE: FIGURES OF SPEECH & READING COMPREHENSION. YEAR: 1974. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: KET/GED LITERATURE STRAND #11. 27 MIN. 378.1662 KET VOL. 11. This program goes over the different figures of speech and explains about each one of them. It also shows you how to read something so you can comprehend it.

PROSE: STYLE AND TENSE. YEAR: 1974. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: KET/GED LITERATURE STRAND #10. 27 MIN. 378.1662 KET VOL. 10. This program goes over the 2 literary techniques: style and tense. It show that words help us to communicate and the way that we say certain words can effect people in different ways.

RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. SERIES: AMERICAN SHORT STORY. 57 MIN. RAP. Based on the story of the same title by Nathaniel Hawthorne, set in 18th century Italy, about a young man's romantic entanglement with a beautiful, forbidden woman in a poisonous garden.

RICHARD FORD. YEAR: 1997. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #58. 60 MIN. 813.54 RIC. 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.

RICHARD NELSON: IN CONVERSATION WITH GARY NABHAN. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #68. 60 MIN. 813.54 RIC. Richard Nelson, a writer, anthropologist, and environmental activist, was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1941. Mr. Nelson has spent 25 years studying the relationship between native people in Alaska and their environments. Mr. Nelson, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, read from The Island Within and Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America on April 14, 1998. He talked with Gary Nabhan, an ethnobotanist and natural history writer, whose books include Cultures of Habitat, The Forgotten Pollinators, and Gathering the Desert.

RICHARD WILBUR. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #16. 60 MIN. 842.2 RIC. 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 read from New and Collected Poems and unpublished manuscripts and was interviewed by poet David St. John. The reading took place at the University of Southern California on April 16, 1990.

RISE OF GREEK TRAGEDY: SOPHOCLES, OEDIPUS THE KING. YEAR: 1975. FORMAT: VHS. 45 MIN. 881 RIS. A presentation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King, performed in the authentic setting of a fifth-century Greek theater, with the use of masks made after ancient models. Shows how this drama developed from primeval sacrificial ceremonies to Dionysius.

ROBERT CREELEY. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #19. 60 MIN. 811.54 ROB. Robert Creeley, one of the most influential American poets of his generation, launched the Black Mountain poetry movement with Charles Olson. He has said, "I write when no other act is possible." He read from The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975; Mirrors, Windows; and from work in progress on April 16, 1990. Lewis MacAdams interviewed Robert Creeley at the Lannan Foundation.

ROBERT FROST. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #5. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 5. Frost's image as elder statesman is vividly contrasted with his vigorous, poetic exploration of the darker forces of nature and the human condition. Interviews and readings with the poet reveal compelling insights into his work.

ROBERT HASS: READING BY ROBERT HASS; CONVERSATION WITH JORIE GRAHAM. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #70. 90 MIN. 811.54 ROB. 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.

ROBERT LOWELL. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #7. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 7. Lowell's political passion encompasses much of his greatest poetry. Lowell himself reads from his work. Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Hass, and others discuss his development and style as illustrated by "Lord Weary's Castle" and "Life Studies."

SANDRA CISNEROS. YEAR: 1997. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #55. 60 MIN. 818.54 SAN. Sandra Cisneros, the author of The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, is a poet and fiction writer. Self described as a "terrorist," "anarchist," and a "Chicana feminist," she has said, "I’m trying to write stories that haven’t been told. I feel like a cartographer. I’m determined to fill a literary void." Ms. Cisneros, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, read the story "Eleven" and from work in progress on October 8, 1996. Ms. Cisernos was interviewed by poet, novelist, and essayist Dorothy Allison, whose books include Cavedweller and Bastard out of Carolina.

SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS: IN CONVERSATION WITH BERNARD COOPER. YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #65. 60 MIN. 813.52 SCO. 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.

SEAMUS HEANEY. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #27. 60 MIN. 821.914 SEA. 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.

SECOND SHEPHERD'S PLAY (EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 52 MIN. 822.08 EAR. Here are three pivotal works of early English drama: the Easter Trope Quem Quaeritis, and two mystery plays -- the Brome Abraham and Isaac (performed on a pageant wagon) and the Second Shepherd's Play, performed on the moors near Wakefield where it originated.

SECRET GARDEN. YEAR: 1997. FORMAT: DVD. 102 MIN. 791.4372 SEC. A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after a tragic accident. With the help of her crippled cousin Colin, and Dickon the country boy, her spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.

SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY. YEAR: 1984. FORMAT: VHS. 40 MIN. 822.3 SHA. Explores the nature of tragedy and the Shakespearean tragic hero. Prepares the student for viewing the plays by examining Shakespeare's concepts of action, character, and catharsis and helps students understand the relationship between Shakespeare's heroes and their destruction.

SHARON OLDS. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #25. 60 MIN. 811.54 SHA. Sharon Olds is the author of more than four books of poetry. Whether her subject be family life or political events, she writes in a style noted for its lyrical grace, exactness of description, and emotional honesty. Her first book, Satan Says, received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award, and her second book, The Dead and the Living, won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Ms. Olds read from The Gold Cell, The Dead and the Living, and from work in progress on April 8, 1991, in Los Angeles. She was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams.

SIMPLE ACTS OF LIFE. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: POWER OF THE WORD #1. 60 MIN. 811.5 POW PT. 1. This program focuses on the 1988 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in Waterloo Village, New Jersey. Every two years, the festival is host to leading poets who read and discuss their work with an audience of several thousand, including high school students and other poets. Poets in episode one include Robert Bly, Galaway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, Octavio Paz and William Stafford.

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR (THEATRE OF THE ABSURD). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: PIRANDELLO, LUIGI. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 58 MIN. 822.912 THE. Discusses stylization, avant-gardism, black theater and realism in drama. Uses the play six characteristics in search of an author by Pirandello as an example.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE. YEAR: 2004. FORMAT: DVD. AUTHOR: VONNEGUT, KURT. 104 MIN. 791.4372 SLA. A man has come unstuck in time and jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. In the end he learns he must concentrate on the good things and ignore the bad in life.

SMOOTH TALK. YEAR: 1985. FORMAT: VHS. 92 MIN. 791.4372 SMO. Connie is a 15-year-od girl with two things on her mind, boys and how she looks, and she meets a man during the summer.

SOME CAN SING. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: LANGUAGE OF LIFE #4. 58 MIN. 811.5409 LAN. VOL. 4. Poetry's ability to bridge gaps and cross boundaries is highlighted in the works of Robert Hass, Claribel Alegria, and Carolyn Forche. A diverse collection of charisma, background, and style these three artists are united in their ability to transport audiences to new places, new feelings and new hopes.

SONIA SANCHEZ. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #21. 60 MIN. 811.54 SON. 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. Ms. Sanchez was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams.

SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE. YEAR: 1987. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: GREAT IDEAS SEMINARS #5. 54 MIN. 371.332 GRE VOL. 5. This program analyzes the story of Antigone by examining the consequences of one's own actions, accepting responsibility for making decisions, and the nature of tragedy. The basic ideas of this program are courage, justice and honor.

STUART DYBEK: IN CONVERSATION OF BARRY SANDERS. YEAR: 1997. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #57. 60 MIN. 813.54 STU. Stuart Dybek has written two collections of stories, The Coast of Chicago and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, and a book of poetry, Brass Knuckles. Mr. Dybek’s luminous and haunting stories evoke the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago where he grew up. He received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, as well as a Whiting Writer’s Award and four O. Henry Prizes. He read the story "Paper Lantern" and from The Coast of Chicago on November 12, 1996. He was interviewed by Barry Sanders, the author of Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History and The Private Death of Public Discourse.

SWIRL LIKE A LEAF. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: LANGUAGE OF LIFE #6. 58 MIN. 811.5409 LAN. VOL. 6. Poetry offers a way for individuals to understand themselves, their motivations and fears, their past and their future. Through writing, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Robert Bly, and Marilyn Chin have all found routes to self discovery and personal reconciliation.

SYLVIA PLATH. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #9. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 9. Friends recall the gifted poet's life and help separate Plath the woman and poet from the mythic figure that has arisen since her death, often obscuring the art and symbolic intent of her powerful poetry.

T. S. ELIOT. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #4. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 4. Eliot's life, influence, and poetry from the bold originally of "Prufrock" to the probing, meditative style of "Four Quartets" are explored with photos, archival footage, and discussion with friends, critics and scholars.

TEACHING CHILDREN TO WRITE POETRY. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: POETRY PROCESS. 53 MIN. 808.0681 POE. The success of teaching poetry at two elementary schools in upstate New York is demonstrated by Michael Rutherford, who has been writing poetry and teaching children how to write poetry for twenty years. The accompanying essay guide contains detailed exercises for use by the poetry teacher in the classroom, an annotated bibliography, and practical poetry-teaching tips for the English teacher.

TEMPEST. YEAR: 1987. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: COMPLETE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 150 MIN. 822.33 TEM. Prospero, exiled on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, raises a magical tempest to wash ashore a ship carrying the enemies who usurped his dukedom years ago -- his brother Antonio and Alonso, the king of Naples. Alonso's son Ferdinand is feared dead but has washed to another part of the island, where he meets and falls in love with Miranda. Prospero punishesthe usurpers and regains his dukedom.

THOM GUNN. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #41. 60 MIN. 809.1 THO. 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.

TONI MORRISON. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT: VHS. 60 MIN. 813.54 TON. Toni Morrison exists in two worlds: the visible world, bustling around her, and the world of her novels, whose characters tell about an interior reality hidden from the eyes of strangers. In her work, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has transported millions of readers into the experience of being black in America and confronting the realities of race. In this program with Bill Moyers, Morrison discusses the characters in her work, the people in her life, the power of love, and how the invented world of fiction connects to life.

UNCLE VANYA (BIRTH OF MODERN THEATRE). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: CHEKHOV, ANTON. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 47 MIN. 792.015 BIR. Analyzes Chekhov's dramatic techniques as developed in Uncle Vanya. Includes a performance of the third act of the English translation by Constance Garnett.

UNITED STATES OF POETRY, 2 VIDEOCASSETTES. YEAR: 1996. FORMAT: VHS. 120/2 MIN. 808.1 UNI. Sixty short films, evocative, edgy, and surprising as music videos, that illustrate individual poems. Recited by their creators. Five programs on two videocassettes. Contents: Part 1 - The Land and the People: Henry Real Bird, Sparrow, Rita Dove, Tracie Morris, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, and Everton Sylvester. Part 2 - A Day in the Life: Rev. Pedro Pietri, Matt Cook, C.D. Wright, Derek Walcott, Czeslaw Milosz, Hal Sirowitz, Sheryl Noethe, Dan Powers, and Paul Beatty. Part 3 - The American Dream: Thylias Moss, Vess Quinlan, Genny Lim, Luis Alfaro, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Leonard Cohen, Ruth Forman, Nerissa Diaz, Jim Northrup, and Javier Pina. Part 4 - Love and Sex: Allen Ginsberg, John S. Hall, Joseph Brodsky, Lypsinka, Lou Reed, Quincy Troupe, Maggie Estep, Pearl Cleage, Indran Amirthanayagam, and Sandra Cisneros. Part 5 - The Word: President Jimmy Carter, Besmilr Brigham, Sawyer Shefts, Peter Cook, Emily Xyz, Ai, Russell Leong, Michelle Clinton, Larry Eigner, and Jack Kerouac (Read By Johnny Depp).

VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #12. 60 MIN. 811.54 VIC. Victor Hernandez Cruz is a poet whose work has been influenced by the African, Indian, and Spanish cultures found in his native Puerto Rico. He read from Rhythm, Content and Flavor, and By Lingual Wholes in Los Angeles on April 17, 1989. Victor Hernandez Cruz talked to students at the Harvard School and was interviewed by poet Lewis MacAdams.

VOICES OF MEMORY. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: POWER OF THE WORD #4. 60 MIN. 811.5 POW PT. 4. In this episode Li-Young Lee and Gerald Stern are featured at a poetry reading at New Jersey's Glassboro State College and in extensive interviews with Bill Moyers.

W.S. MERWIN, 2 VOLS. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #3/85. 87 MIN. 811.54 MER VOLS. 1 - 2. Volume I: 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. Volume II: Mr. Merwin, a recipient of the Pulitzer, Tanning, and the Ruth Lilly prizes, read on October 18, 2000. He talked with Naomi Shihab Nye, whose poetry books include The Words Under the Words, Fuel, and Red Suitcase.

WAITING FOR GODOT (CONTEMPORARY THEATRE). YEAR: 1976. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: BECKETT, SAMUEL. SERIES: HISTORY OF THE DRAMA. 52 MIN. 842.91 BEC. Abandoning sequential action, excluding everything in the nature of plot and creating an atmosphere of non-logic, Beckett brings the theater of the absurd to its apogee.

WALLACE SHAWN. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #80. 102 MIN. 812.54 WAL. 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 Andre, with Andre Gregory. Mr. Shawn, who lives in New York City, read The Fever on December 15, 1999.

WALLACE STEVENS. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #11. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 11. Stevens's flamboyant verbal technique and philosophical vision of American life are beautifully illustrated by archival footage. Scholar Helen Vendler, poets Mark Strand and James Merrill, and others reveal his life and poetry.

WALT WHITMAN. YEAR: 2004. FORMAT: DVD. SERIES: SIX POETS, SEARCHING FOR RHYME AND REASON. 21 MIN. 813.3 WAL. Presents a unique literary biography, tracing Whitman's childhood, various careers, and the evolution of the masterpiece that proved his lifelong work, Leaves of Grass. A collage of photos, paintings, and manuscripts accompanies excerpts of letters from Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as readings from sections of Leaves of Grass.

WALT WHITMAN. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #12. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 12. Brilliant readings of Whitman's poems demonstrated his American vision and style and vividly convey their poignancy and sheer power. Whitman's sources, including Emerson, the King James Bible, opera, and political oratory, are revealed.

WELCOME TO THE MAINLAND. YEAR: 1995. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: LANGUAGE OF LIFE #1. 58 MIN. 811.5409 LAN. VOL. 1. From the jazz-laced street speech of African American poet Sekou Sundiata's Harlem Nights, to Naomi Shihab Nye's delight in the wonder of everyday objects, both artists in the opening program of the series celebrate the cultures of today and the way those cultures have become part of the American mosaic.

WENDELL BERRY AND GARY SNYDER: READINGS BY WENDELL BERRY AND GARY SNYDER; CONVERSATION WITH JACK SHOEMAKER. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #78. 89 MIN. 811.54 WEN. Wendell Berry, poet, essayist, and novelist, pursues what he calls "an ethic and way of life based upon devotion to a place and devotion to a land." He has published more than 30 books, and received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1989. The reading took place on November 10, 1999. Gary Snyder's poetry and prose reflect his study of Eastern literature and culture, his commitment to the environment, and his concepts of humanity's place in the cosmos. Mr. Snyder lived in Japan for fourteen years, studying Zen Buddhism. He lives in Northern California and teaches at the University of California at Davis.

WHERE POEMS COME FROM. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #48. 60 MIN. 811.54 WHE. Fifteen major poets read and discuss the origins of their poetry: Yehuda Amichai, Lucille Clifton, Victor Hernandez 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.

WHERE THE SOUL LIVES. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MOYERS, BILL. SERIES: POWER OF THE WORD #6. 60 MIN. 811.5 POW PT. 6. The final episode returns to the 1988 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Featured reading their poems to the festival audience and discussing their works in extended interviews are Robert Bly, Lucille Clifton and W. S. Merwin.

WHO AM I THIS TIME? YEAR: 1999. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: VONNEGUT, KURT. 60 MIN. 791.4372 WHO. Two shy people find love through their roles in a local theatre production. Videocassette release of the 1982 American Playhouse television production on PBS. Based on the story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: VOICES AND VISIONS #13. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 811 VOI NO. 13. "No ideas but in things," Williams's aesthetic dictum sought to capture, not analyze. A collage of documentary footage, interviews, animation, and dramatization capture the poet's often visual work and intense life.

WILLIAM FAULKNER. YEAR: 1993. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FAMOUS AUTHORS. 30 MIN. 813.52094 WIL. Traces the life and literary career of William Faulkner, using photographs and views of places associated with his life.

WILLIAM H. GASS: READING BY WILLIAM GASS ; CONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL SILVERBLATT. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #72. 101 MIN. 814.54 WIL. 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 and talked with Michael Silverblatt, host of the literary interview program, Bookworm.

WOMEN AND CREATIVITY. YEAR: 1981. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: CREATIVITY. 30 MIN. 153.35042 WOM. Host Bill Moyers examines how creative, artistic women handle their lives within or outside of the woman's traditional role in the family. He interviews artists Judy Chicago and Bernie Lasseau, and novelist Mary Gordon.

YEHUDA AMICHAI. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #10. 60 MIN. 892.416 YEH. Yehuda Amichai was born in Germany and grew up in Palestine. Mr. Amichai, who writes in Hebrew, is one of the most distinguished Israeli poets of the twentieth century. Mr. Amichai read from Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 1989. Mr. Amichai was interviewed by critic Esther Robbins.

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA. YEAR: 1997. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: LANNAN LITERARY SERIES #60. 60 MIN. 811.54 YUS. Yusef Komunyakaa, the author of eight collections of poetry, was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1947. Mr. Komunyakaa has written about his childhood in a rural southern town as well as his experiences in Vietnam, where he received a Bronze Star and was the editor of The Southern Cross. Mr. Komunyakaa, who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, read from Magic City, Neon Vernacular and Thieves of Paradise on November 11, 1997. He talked with Toi Derricotte, the author of four books of poetry, including Tender and Captivity, and a memoir, The Black Notebooks.