Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006): MusicNear.com

Music CD 1

Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Come into the Garden, Maud - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix [Excerpt] - Robert Browning
America [Excerpt] - Anne Sexton
Lake Isle of Innisfree - W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats
Song of the Old Mother - W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats
Lucinda Matlock - Edgar Lee Masters
Emily Sparks - Edgar Lee Masters
Creation - James Weldon Johnson
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso - Gertrude Stein
Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
From the People, Yes (#90) - Carl Sandburg
So and So Reclining on Her Couch - Wallace Stevens
Red Wheelbarrow - William Carlos Williams
For Elsie [From Spring and All] - William Carlos Williams
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberly - John Poch
From Helen in Egypt [Excerpt] - Hilda Doolittle, H.D.
Journey of the Magi (With Introduction) - T.S. Eliot
Recuerdo - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love Is Not All - Edna St. Vincent Millay
R?sum? - Simon J. Ortiz
Lady's Reward - Dorothy Parker
As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood - Al Cohn
To Juan at the Winter Solstice - Robert Graves
From John Brown's Body - Steven Vincent Benet,
Strong Man - Sterling A. Brown
Negro Speaks of Rivers (With Intro) - Richard Howard
Waery Blues (With Intro) - Langston Hughes
Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man - Ogden Nash
King of the River - Maxine Kumin
Cave of Nakedness - W.H. Auden
I Knew a Woman - Theodore Roethke
Elegy for Jane - Theodore Roethke
Late Air - Elizabeth Bishop
Fish - Elizabeth Bishop

Music CD 2

Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden
Ballad of Orange and Grape - Muriel Rukeyser
To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century - Muriel Rukeyser
#23 (The Lay of Ike) - John Berryman
#36 (The High Ones Die...) - John Berryman
World Is So Difficult to Give Up... - David Ignatow
This Is the Solution, To Be Happy with Slaughter... - David Ignatow
Here I Am with Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids... - David Ignatow
I Killed a Fly... - David Ignatow
What About Dying?... - David Ignatow
Passing Remark - William Stafford
Serving with Gideon - William Stafford
And Death Shall Have No Dominion - Dylan Thomas
Tombstone Told When She Died - Dylan Thomas
Mother - Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool - Gwendolyn Brooks
Skunk Hour - Robert Lowell
Crossing Over - Edgar Lee Masters
See It Was Like This When... - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Secret of My Endurance - Charles Bukowski
Ray - Hayden Carruth
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World - Richard Wilbur
American Haikus [Excerpt] - Al Cohn, Jack Kerouac, Vijay Seshadri
Death Psalm: O Lord - Li-Young Lee, Li-Young Lee
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 - Suji Kwock Kim
Last Gods - Galway Kinnell
Blessing - James Wright
All My Pretty Ones - Anne Sexton
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife - Anne Sexton

Music CD 3

Even in Paris [Excerpt] - Richard Howard
Diving into the Wreck - David Ray
Lovesong - Ted Hughes
Omeros [Excerpt] - Derek Walcott
Song of the Taste - Gary Snyder
Why I Take Goos Care of My Macintosh Computer - Gary Snyder
Idea of Ancestry - Etheridge Knight
Daddy - Pedro Pietri
Greatest Porm in the World - Kevin Prufer
Oddly Lovely Day Alone - John Updike
Bang, Bang Outishly - Amiri Baraka
Rhythim Blues - Amiri Baraka
Shazam Doowah - Amiri Baraka
Dahomey - Audre Lorde
Right to Life - Elise Paschen
Poem - Mark Strand
Zimmer Imagines Heaven - Paul Zimmer
Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty - Marilyn Chin
I Have Had to Learn to Live with My Face - Diane Wakoski
We Were So Poor... - Charles Simic
I Was Stolen by the Gypsies... - Charles Simic
Everybody Knows the Story... - Charles Simic
Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney
Lester Leaps In - Zoot Sims
Dfance for Militant Dilettantes - James Tate
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

Music CD 4

Wonder - Sharon Olds
Lost Pilot - Anne Sexton
Puerto Rican Obituary [Excerpt] - Pedro Pietri
Uh Oh Plutonium - Anne Waldman
Fine Printing on the Label of a Beer of Non-Alcohol Beer - Adrian Louis
Sweat Lodge - Adrian Louis
Facing It - Yusef Komunuakaa
Logan Heights and the World - Mark Daterman, Juan Felipe Herrera
Colonel - Carolyn Forch?,
History of Armenia - Peter Balakian
Grace - Joy Harjo
Parsley - Mark Daterman
Long Meadow - Vijay Seshadri
Floral Apron - Marilyn Chin
Raisin Eyes - Luci Tapahonso
Concrete River - Dr. Luis Rodriguez
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading out Loud - Jonathan Lamfers
Two Standards - Elise Paschen
I Saw You Walking - Deborah Garrison
Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre - Elizabeth Alexander
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 - D.A. Powell
Slaughter - Kevin Young
Scab - Jonathan Lamfers

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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 poets intended their poems to be read aloud. With 128 poems read by 98 poets, Poetry On Record is the most comprehensive collection of its kind, covering such famous poets as Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Dorothy Parker, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsburg, and Sylvia Plath, as well as a plethora of lesser-known but highly regarded poets.

Poetry On Record is a must-have for any fan of poetry, or for anyone who wants an expertly chosen overview as a starting point.