When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for -a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment.- The lively interviews in this collection reveal Walcott's generous and brilliant intelligence as well as his strong, forthright opinions. He discusses the craft of poetry, the status of contemporary poetry and drama, his founding of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and his views on a number of influential writers, including Eliot, Auden, Brodsky, Heaney, and Naipaul.
Boldly speaking his mind, Walcott takes many...
When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for -a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome o...
Amid extraordinary controversy at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1999, Elia Kazan was belatedly presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career as a director of American films. Despite the protests regarding his -friendly- testimony at the HUAC hearings in 1952, there was never any question that Kazan's cinematic accomplishments merited the long-overdue award. Few would dispute his being one of the great creative artists of the twentieth century.-
Born an Anatolian Greek in Istanbul in 1909, Kazan emigrated with his parents from Turkey to the United States when he was...
Amid extraordinary controversy at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1999, Elia Kazan was belatedly presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his dist...
The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luis de Camoes (1524 80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Championed and admired by such poets as William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Camoes was renowned for his intensely personal sonnets and equally intense life of adventure. The first significant English translation of Camoes s sonnets in more than one hundred years, "Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition" collects seventy of...
The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luis de Camoes (1524 80) has been ra...
"Classic American Films" explores the origin and development of many of the most influential and revered films in cinema history, and does so with the aid and insight of the people who actually wrote the screenplays. These lively, candid, in-depth interviews are filled with fascinating new material (details, anecdotes, judgments, and opinions) about the creative and collaborative processes that went into the making of these extraordinary films. In the past, Hollywood screenwriters--the original artists--have often been overlooked. This book is a special tribute to the invaluable...
"Classic American Films" explores the origin and development of many of the most influential and revered films in cinema history, and does so with ...
When free verse and its many movements seemed to dominate poetry, other writers worked steadfastly, insistently, and majestically in traditional forms of rhyme and meter. Such poets as Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, Derek Walcott, and Richard Wilbur utilized sonnets, villanelles, blank verse, and many other forms to create dazzling, lasting work. Their writing posed a counterpoint to free verse, sustained a tradition in English language verse, and eventually inspired the movement called New Formalism. Fourteen on Form: Conversations with Poets collects interviews with some of the...
When free verse and its many movements seemed to dominate poetry, other writers worked steadfastly, insistently, and majestically in traditional fo...
