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2016., Adult, Coach House Books Call No: QWF Fic Boc Edition: First English edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A young, floundering author meets Robert 'Baloney' Lacerte, an older, marginal poet who seems to own nothing beyond his unwavering certainty. Over the course of several evenings, Lacerte recounts his unrelenting quest for poetry, which has taken him from Quebec's Boreal forests to South America to East Montreal, where he seems poised to disappear without a trace. But as the blocked writer discovers, Lacerte might just be full of it."--From publisher.
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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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By Siré, Cora2016., Signature Editions Call No: Fic Sir Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After twelve years in exile, living and teaching in the safety of Montreal, Alma Alvarez has been persuaded to return to Luscano by her old friend Flaco, who has invited her to give a lecture at his university on the tragic Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini, a writer with a cult-like following known for her erotic poetry and film noir demise.Having been arrested herself after the publication of a poem which offended the military regime, Alma knows how influential and dangerous poetry can be. But her mother is dying, and her return to Luscano feels inevitable. She soon discovers that life in Luscano is still rife with secrecy and duplicity. And Flaco turns out to have a hidden agenda as well. As Alma attempts to readapt to a country that, despite its seductive charms, may not have broke free of its brutal past, she catches sight of the man whose actions prompted her exile and begins to follow him in secret.The imaginary country of Luscano, an amalgam of Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, is vibrantly brought to life with a nod to the regionœs literary tradition of magic realism.
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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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2013., Wolsak and Wynn Call No: QWF 811.6 H855c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In The Civic-mindedness of Trees, award-winning poet Ken Howe updates the vocation of the "nature poet" for the 21st Century. These poems are witty and philosophical meditations on the haunting presence of the natural world, and on the familiar presence of humanity within it. In this book, odes to oak trees and ground squirrels renew the mysteries of plant and animal life; it is not an idealized Eden untouched by people, but a world, also, of highways that skirt the abyss and of "the great ruined jobsites of space", a world all the more strange for being real. At once playful and sublime, Ken Howe's linguistically daring investigations have updated "eco-poetry" for the information age.
