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Catalogue Number: NFB523829
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: William Brind, Barrie Howells
Directors: Donald Winkler
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Canadian Literature, Documentary, English, Literature
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1986
Running Time: 25:58
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A Tall Man Executes a Jig by Irving Layton - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB523829
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: William Brind, Barrie Howells
Directors: Donald Winkler
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Canadian Literature, Documentary, English, Literature
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1986
Running Time: 25:58
Click here for pricing
A fascinating "conversation" with Canadian poet Irving Layton, who shares how the poem by which he would like to be remembered, A Tall Man Executes a Jig, was inspired. He also offers a thorough explication of the poem. In so doing, he discusses the major themes that have preoccupied him during a lifetime of writing; themes that are articulated in the metaphysical sonnet-sequence of this poem.