Poetry on record 98 poets read their work, 1888-2006.
| Book on CD 2006 |
| Available at 2 Libraries 2 of 2 copies |
Summary
128 poems read by 98 poets. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, covering such famous poets as Walt Whitman William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Allen Ginsburg, and many, many more.
Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) is an engrossing collection of poems read by the people who wrote them, from the dawn of sound recording to the current day. Over the course of four CDs and an info-packed book, it tells the story of the past 120 years of poetry in English, from Romanticism (Dylan Thomas) to Modernism (T.S. Eliot), from the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes) to Black Arts (Amiri Baraka), from rhyme and meter (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) to free verse (Adrienne Rich), and beyond. Equally important, it allows listeners to understand exactly how the poets intended their poems to be read aloud. Poetry On Record is the most comprehensive collection of its kind and is a must-have for any fan of poetry, or for anyone who wants an expertly chosen overview as a starting point.
Contents
disc 1. The charge of the light brigade ; Come into the garden, Maud / Alfred, Lord TennysonHow they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix (excerpt) / Robert Browning
America (excerpt) / Walt Whitman
The lake isle of Innisfree ; The song of the old mother / William Butler Yeats
Lucinda Matlock ; Emily Sparks / Edgar Lee Masters
The creation / James Weldon Johnson
If I told him : a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein
The road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
The people, yes ("Proverbs") (excerpt) / Carl Sandburg
So and so reclining on her couch / Wallace Stevens
The red wheelbarrow ; To Elsie / William Carlos Williams
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (excerpt) / Ezra Pound
Helen in Egypt (excerpt) / H.D.
Journey of the Magi (with introduction) / T.S. Eliot
Recuerdo ; Love is not all / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Résumé ; The lady's reward / Dorothy Parker
As freedom is a breakfastfood / E.E. Cummings
To Juan at the winter solstice / Robert Graves
John Brown's body (excerpt) / Stephen Vincent Benét
Strong men / Sterling Brown
The Negro speaks of rivers (with intro) ; The weary blues (with intro) / Langston Hughes
Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Ogden Nash
King of the river / Stanley Kunitz
The cave of nakedness / W.H. Auden
I knew a woman ; Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke
Late air ; The fish / Elizabeth Bishop
disc 2. Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
The ballad of Orange and Grape ; To be a Jew in the twentieth century / Muriel Rukeyser
The lay of Ike ; The high ones die
/ John Berryman
The world is so difficult to give up
; This is the solution, to be happy with slaughter
; Here I am with mike in hand, shooting down the rapids
; I killed a fly
; What about dying?
/ David Ignatow
Passing remark ; Serving with Gideon / William Stafford
And death shall have no dominion ; The tombstone told when she died / Dylan Thomas
The mother ; We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
Skunk hour / Robert Lowell
Crossing over / William Meredith
See it was like this when
; Underwear / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The secret of my endurance / Charles Bukowski
Ray / Hayden Carruth
Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur
American haikus (excerpt) / Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn & Zoot Simms
Death psalm : O Lord of Mysteries / Denise Levertov
Monet refuses the operation / Lisel Mueller
Woodchucks / Maxine Kumin
America / Allen Ginsberg
Still / A.R. Ammons
My philosophy of life / John Ashbery
After making love we hear footsteps ; Last gods / Galway Kinnell
A blessing / James Wright
All my pretty ones ; For my lover, returning to his wife / Anne Sexton
disc 3. Even in Paris (excerpt) / Richard Howard
Driving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich
Lovesong / Ted Hughes
Omeros (excerpt) / Derek Walcott
The song of the taste ; Why I take good care of my Macintosh computer / Gary Snyder
The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
Daddy / Sylvia Plath
The greatest poem in the world / David Ray
An oddly lovely day alone / John Updike
Bang, bang outishly ; Rhythim blues ; Shazam doowah / Amiri Baraka
Dahomey / Audre Lorde
Right to life / Marge Piercy
The poem / Mark Strand
Zimmer imagines heaven / Paul Zimmer
Cruelty. Don't talk to me about cruelty / Lucille Clifton
I have had to learn to live with my face / Diane Wakoski
We were so poor
; I was stolen by the gypsies
; Everybody knows the story
/ Charles Simic
Death of a naturalist / Seamus Heaney
Lester leaps in ; A dance for militant dilettantes / Al Young
Fire / Gloria Vando
Odysseus to Telemachus / Joseph Brodsky
Sometimes it's better to laugh, "honest injun" / Simon J. Ortiz
Ode to my shoes / Erica Jong
disc 4. Wonder / Sharon Olds
The lost pilot / James Tate
Puerto Rican obituary (excerpt) / Pedro Pietri
Uh oh plutonium / Anne Waldman
The fine printing on the label of a bottle of non-alcohol beer ; The sweat lodge / Adrian Louis
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa
Logan Heights and the world / Juan Felipe Herrera (with Mark Daterman, guitar)
The Colonel / Carolyn Forché
The history of Armenia / Peter Balakian
Grace / Joy Harjo
Parsley / Rita Dove
The long meadow / Vijay Seshadri
The floral apron / Marilyn Chin
Raisin eyes / Luci Tapahonso
The concrete river / Luis Rodriguez
My father, in heaven, is reading out loud / Li-Young Lee
Two standards / Elise Paschen
I saw you walking / Deborah Garrison
The female seer will burn upon this pyre ; After the gig : Mick Jagger / Elizabeth Alexander
Morning broke on my cabin inverted, tempest in my forehead / D.A. Powell
Eleven more days / Carl Hancock Rux
Simon Peter / John Poch
Fragments of the forgotten war / Suji Kwock Kim
Lucky criminals / Kevin Prufer
The slaughter / Kevin Young
Occupation ; Tigers / Eliza Griswold.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
English poetry
-- 19th century.
English poetry -- 20th century. Poetry readings (Sound recordings) Literary readings Radio programs. Live sound recordings. Audiobooks. |
| Publisher | Los Angeles, CA : New York :Shout Factory ;2006 Distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment, |
| Other Titles | 98 poets read their work, 1888-2006 Ninety-eight poets read their work, 1888-2006 |
| Contributors |
Mosby, Rebekah Presson.
Shout! Factory (Firm) Sony BMG Music Entertainment. |
| Other Contributors |
Compiled and produced by Rebekah Presson Mosby. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Shout Factory: D4K 10029 (DK 10030--DK10033). Compact disc. In container (22 cm.). Accompanying booklet comprises essays by Al Young and Rebekah Presson Mosby, historical information about the poems and poetry readings, and biographical information about the poets. |
| Description |
4 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm) |
| ISBN | 0738934437 9780738934433 |
| Other | Classic View |