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Poetry speaks expanded : hear poets from Tennyson to Plath read their own work

Format: Print Book 2007
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Summary

"By the time you''re done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more."--WALL STREET JOURNAL

"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry, a practice of discipline, skill, and magic."--BOOKLIST

"...The prose comes to life when read aloud, especially when you hear James Joyce read it himself."--NPR''s ALL THINGS CONSIDERED host Jacki Lyden

"This tome is a reminder how the human spirit is capable of finding an outlet in oppressive times, how poetry can help explain why we do what we do as a thinking people...Certainly, in our struggle to make sense out of what we do not understand, Poetry Speaks Expanded helps on so many levels."--Carol Hoenig, THE HUFFINGTON POST

"...[A] bountiful experience: there is the thrill of discovery and re-discovery as with any good anthology, with an added emphasis on the poets'' personalities and growth"--John Hammond, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

"[An] accessible, beautifully executed collection guaranteed to offer poetry fans a memorable reading and listening experience"--WORDCANDY.NET

"...[A]s I savored these beautiful poems, it reminded me of French poet Charles Baudelaire who wrote, ''Any man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.''"--Norm Goldman, BOOKPLEASURES.COM

"Light[s] up a reader''s eyes."--Frank Wilson, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Hear And Read All Of These Poets (And More) 244 Poems Included In The Book 107 Poems Read By The Poets Themselves On 3 Audio CDs

Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Allen Ginsberg Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, John Crowe Ransom

Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poet''s words with the poet''s voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.

"This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW

"Readers and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set."--LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW

"Superb, accessible....A unique and essential purchase"--SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Poetry

For the first time ever, James Joyce reads "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake alongside the original text from the book T. S. Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Sylvia Plath''s anger and raw emotion as she reads "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" Jack Kerouac reading from "MacDougal Street Blues," accompanied by Steve Allen on piano May Swenson rehearsing "The Watch" prior to a reading H. D. reading a part of "Helen in Egypt" from a rare recording made shortly before her death Ted Hughes reading "February 17" during a BBC interview A never-before-published recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade" W. B. Yeats explaining his reading style and why he chooses to read that way Robert Frost reading "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Essays Written By Today''s Most Influential Poets, Including: W. S. Merwin on Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney on W. B. Yeats, Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams, Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman, Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop and Al Young on Langston Hughes

"The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years."--QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB

A Book Sense Top-10 Selection

Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "This large book allows long poems to fill the page like a musical score, while short poems are paired with photographs of poets and reproductions of handwritten manuscripts. This physical largesse is matched by generosity of spirit as living poets offer crisp and empathic commentary on 47 poets who have gone before them. Here, thanks to the expertise and good taste of editors Paschen and Mosby, is Rosellen Brown on Carl Sandburg, Billy Collins on Ogden Nash, Susan Hahn on Dorothy Parker, Edward Hirsch on Robert Browning, and Mark Strand on Wallace Stevens. Then there are the three accompanying CDs. Fluently hosted by Charles Osgood, they contain mesmerizing recordings of each historic poet reading her or his work. This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and thrilling recording of James Joyce reading Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2007 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "This second edition of the popular anthology is an accessible introduction to 20th century poetry on the page and in the air. Forty-seven poets-beginning with Tennyson, moving through Eliot, Kerouac and Bishop, among many others, and ending on Plath-are represented in this book and CD package. Attesting to the fact that poetry remains a spoken art form, this book may convince readers that well-chosen words gain vitality when heard aloud, as Allen Ginsberg?s incantatory rendering of "Howl" proves. William Carlos Williams? "The Red Wheelbarrow," in the poet?s voice, takes on a playful singsong quality. Gwendolyn Brooks, reading "We Real Cool," affects her subjects? swagger and attitude, shifting to solemnity for the grave final line: "we die soon." The book also includes useful biographical information and a literary essay on each writer by contemporary poets, who locate the poets in historical context: Anne Stevenson, for instance, comments on Plath and Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, by whom this edition also contains a previously unreleased recording of the "Anna Livia Plurabelle" section of Finnegan?s Wake. Reluctant poetry readers may find themselves drawn to the printed page by the spoken work, and poetry fans are likely to find much to love here. (Oct.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information."

Additional Information
Subjects American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and crtiticism.
American poetry -- 20th century.
English poetry -- 20th century.
English poetry -- 19th century.
Publisher Naperville, Ill. :Sourcebooks,2007
Edition 2nd ed.
Other Titles Poetry speaks.
Contributors Paschen, Elise.
Mosby, Rebekah Presson.
Osgood, Charles.
Language English
Notes Rev. ed. of: Poetry speaks, 2001.
Includes index.
Description xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 3 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
ISBN 9781402210624 (hardcover)
1402210620 (hardcover)
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