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(2000)., Adult, New Line Home Entertainment : distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis Call No: DVD Fic Before Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, he is in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an early lover; a love-hate relationship lasts for years. Openly gay behavior is a way to spite the government. His writing and homosexuality get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison, writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. He befriends Lázaro Gomes Garriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty in Manhattan after leaving Cuba in the Mariel boat-lift. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, "Revenge.".
![Before night falls [DVD] (2000). Directed by Julian Schnabel.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Before night falls [DVD] (2000). Directed by Julian Schnabel.")
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1968., Evans Bros. Call No: 821 B636g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Literature in perspective
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2004., General, Chatto & Windus Call No: Bio C496a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Ackroyd brief lives.Summary Note: Biography.
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[1973], Harper's Magazine Press Call No: 811 S822c Edition: [1st ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Abley, Mark2013., Adult, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: QWF 811.54 A152c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Duncan Campbell Scott, known both as the architect of Canada's most destructive Aboriginal policies and as one of the nation's major poets. Who was this enigmatic figure who could compose a sonnet to an "Onondaga Madonna" one moment and promote a "final solution" to the "Indian problem" the next? In this passionate, intelligent and highly readable inquiry into the state of Canada's troubled Aboriginal relations, Abley alternates between analysis of current events and an imagined debate with the spirit of Duncan Campbell Scott, whose defense of the Indian Residential School and belief in assimilation illuminate the historical roots underlying today's First Nations' struggles. Mark Abley writes a column for the Montreal Gazette. He lives in Montreal.
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Ã2017., Counterpoint Call No: Bio J77d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: We are excited to announce the first full-length critical biography of the third member, too often overlooked, of that extraordinary group. The beautifully illustratedDavid Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth will stand for generations as the great biography this wonderful artist deserves.Jones (1895-1974) was a painter, a wood- and copper-engraver and maker of painted inscriptions, but it was as a poet that he left his most lasting mark. Eliot called him 'one of the most distinguished writers of my generation' and Dylan Thomas said he 'would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done.' Auden praised his poemIn Parenthesis as 'the greatest book [ever] about the Great War', andThe Anathemata as one of the 'truly great poems in Western Literature.' His work, the whole of it, enables him to stand alongside Eliot, Pound, and James Joyce as an incomparable figure in literary Modernism.
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2014., Adult, 37 Ink/Atria Call No: 951.93 J33d Edition: First 37 Ink / Atria books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear. As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose; told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime"--Provided by publisher.
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2006, p1982., Adult, National Film Board of Canada Call No: DVD Bio S425f Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Looks at the multi-faceted career of F.R. Scott - a founder of the CCF Party, a lawyer, teacher of constitutional law and modernist poet.