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2015., Adult, Dundurn Press Call No: Bio L429P Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Irving Layton's last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet. While a student at Dalhousie University, Anna Pottier attended a poetry reading featuring Irving Layton. Walking out of the auditorium that night, she knew two things: she wanted more than ever to be a writer, and she wanted to be with Layton. At the age of twenty-three she became Layton's fifth and final wife; she was forty-eight years his junior. She shared the entirety of his world and was intimately involved in the writing and publication of such books as The Gucci Bag, Fortunate Exile, and Waiting for the Messiah. She accompanied Layton on his last major overseas reading tour, broke bread with Pierre Trudeau and Leonard Cohen, met other luminaries, and watched Layton write his very last poem. But slowly, Layton was changing. In 1992, a doctor put names to these changes: Parkinson's disease and early-stage Alzheimer's. Life carried on, but once-easy things grew more difficult, and then the day came in 1995, after nearly fourteen years, when Pottier had nothing left to give. Canadian poet Irving Layton (1912<U+2013>2006) was born in Romania to Jewish parents. His family moved to Montreal in 1913. Anna Pottier is a Nova Scotian Acadian writer and painter"--Provided by publisher.
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c2012., Adult, Tightrope Books Call No: Bio B531h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Tumbling into adulthood as the world falls into post 9-11 madness, Samantha Bernstein vividly depicts a generation raised in the ruins of Baby Boomer idealism. The daughter of a hippie mom ground down by life in a relentless film industry, and an absent, famous poet father, Samantha enters her twenties outraged by the legacies of her predecessors. In emails chronicling five years, she writes toward a vision that reconciles history with the possibility of an ethical and hopeful future. Creating collectives that are at once joyous and politically engaged, the characters in this memoir accept loss, acknowledge fear, and fight cynicism. Exultant and poignant, caustic and tender, Here We Are Among the Living invites readers to look carefully at the world -- to believe the choices we make matter, and that to love is the most important choice of all."--Provided by publisher.
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2019., Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Call No: Bio B531i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Much has been written by others about the relationship Irving Layton and Harriet Bernstein shared, and most of it is inaccurate. This book tells the true story, and in so doing provides a look into the CanLit scene between 1974-1981. Students and admirers of Layton’s work will discover the genesis of many poems; other readers will find a unique and powerful love story, one that also probes issues of feminism, creativity, and self-creation." --Provided by publisher.
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c1999., Macfarlane Walter & Ross ; Distributed in the U.S. by General Distribution Services Call No: Bio L42895m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2006, p1986., Adult Call No: DVD Bio L429p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This feature documentary is a portrait of the life and work of Canadian poet Irving Layton. Here, the artist who long masked himself in controversy, unexpectedly agrees to be unmasked in front of the camera. The 1981 Nobel nominee not only reads and explicates his own writings, but also speaks incisively about Canadian literature itself, defining it metaphorically as a "double hook" that combines "beauty and terror.".
![Poet [DVD] (1986). Directed by Donald Winkler. : Irving Layton observed](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Poet [DVD] (1986). Directed by Donald Winkler. : Irving Layton observed")
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c1993., Véhicule Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by Inbook/Inland Book Co. Call No: 811.54 R142 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2003. Call No: DVD Bio L429r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A look inside the life of Montreal poet Irving Layton, one of the most remarkable personalities in the Canadian literary scene.
![A red carpet for the sun : the life of Irving Layton [DVD] (2003). Directed by Donald Winkler](/Library/images/~imageCT80643.JPG "A red carpet for the sun : the life of Irving Layton [DVD] (2003). Directed by Donald Winkler")
