Jarman Derek. Dancing Ledge

An autobiography. — University of Minnesota Press, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8166-7449-7.Derek Jarman’s stunning account of his life and artFrom his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in his films and writing. Accompanied by photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in Dancing Ledge provide intimate and vivid glimpses into his life and times."The clarity with which Derek Jarman offered up his life and the living of it, particularly since the epiphany — I can call it nothing less — of his illness was a genius stroke, not only of provocation, but of grace." — Tilda Swinton