Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006)
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Free Music Review: Poetry on Record
Hit: 5 Stars
I gave this to my Mother for Christmas as she is an avid reader of poetry. She was delighted to be able to hear the voices of some of her favorite poets reading their own works . . . recordings over 100 years old in some cases. She has listened to each of the 4 CDs twice already and her friends can hardly wait for her to share them! I told her to tell them to go to [...] for their own copies!Free Music Review: Excellent gift for poet
Hit: 5 Stars
My sister, a college professor and writer, loved this book. It is beautifully done, from the packaging to the selection of poems.Free Music Review: Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
Exellent for poetry lovers who don't have time to read and can listen while driving.Free Music Review: Excellent, mainly for the 1st and 2nd CDs
Hit: 4 Stars
This is an excellent collection, worth having, but primarily for the first two CDs. (I wasn't aware any recording of Walt Whitman existed at all.)
Many of the recordings are surprising for the style of reading. Whitman's is one -- his accent made me gape. Likewise, the style of Yeats or Eliot is a real insight into how poetry was received in a different time.
I give the collection 4 stars instead of 5 for its unevenness. I can think of vastly more interesting people than Rebekah Presson Mosby to compile such a collection. And the selection of contemporary poets is erratic with glaring omissions and curious (even pointless) inclusions. Why three selections of Amiri Baraka (whose work I do like) but only one of Seamus Heaney? Or A.R. Ammons or John Ashberry or Adrienne Rich?
Sadly missing (a partial list and in no particular order): Louise Gluck, Nikki Giovanni, Mark Doty, Thomas Hardy, Marianne Moore, Philip Larkin, W.S. Merwin, Michael Ondaatje. (Of course, I have my own biases.)
And it would have been wonderful to hear some poets back to back on the same work. For example, William Butler Yeats and Galway Kinnell reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (Yeats's work and one of Kinnell's favorites). Admittedly, this might be asking too much.
So, on balance, very worth having for the recordings of the late poets.
Free Music Review: Awesome if you can hear it....
Hit: 4 Stars
It's awesome hearing the poetry in the voices of the poets, and I understand that these are amazingly rare and old recordings, but maybe it wasn't worth including pieces that just can't be understood? Or relate that fact to the customer so that they understand that the quality is diminished because of the oldness and rarity of the pieces.
A follow up reading by a contemporary poet on those pieces would add value to the set, and allow the customer two views of the written work.
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