In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet

Disc: 1

1. America - Walt Whitman

2. Lake Isle of Innisfree - W.B. Yeats

3. Song of the Old Mother - W.B. Yeats

4. Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

5. Birches - Robert Frost

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Disc: 2

1. I Knew a Woman - Theodore Roethke

2. Elegy for Jane - Theodore Roethke

3. Rough - Stephen Spender

4. Thoughts During an Air Raid - Stephen Spender

5. My Sisters, O My Sisters - May Sarton

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Disc: 3

1. River Bees - W.S. Merwin

2. Blessing - James Wright

3. Truth the Dead Know - Anne Sexton

4. All My Pretty Ones - Anne Sexton

5. Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou

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Disc: 4

1. I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face - Diane Wakoski

2. Dear John, Dear Coltrane - Michael S. Harper

3. We Were So Poor... - Charles Simic

4. I Was Stolen by the Gypsies... - Charles Simic

5. Everybody Knows the Story - Charles Simic

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ASIN: B0000033RT
Release Date: 1996-09-17

Tracks:

America - Walt Whitman
The Laske Isle Of Innisfree - WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Song Of The Old Mother - WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The Road Not Taken - ROBERT FROST
Birches - ROBERT FROST
The Gift Outright - ROBERT FROST
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait Of Picasso - Gertrude Stein
So & So Reclining On Her Couch - WALLACE STEVENS
The Red Wheelbarrow - WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
To Elsie - WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt) - EZRA POUND
Bird-WItted - MARIANNE MOORE
Recuerdo - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love Is Not All - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Next To Of Course God America - E.E. Cummings
Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town - E.E. Cummings
To Juan At The Winter Solstice - Robert Graves
The Opening Of The Battle Of Gettysburg - Steven Vincent Benet
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers - Langston Hughes
Ballad Of The Gypsy - Langston Hughes
Mulatto - Langston Hughes
Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man - Ogden Nash
Love Recognized - Robert Penn Warren
King Of The River - Stanley Kunitz
In Memory Of W.B. Yeats (Part 1) - W.H. Auden

Tracks:

I Knew A Woman - Theodore Roethke
Elegy For Jane - Theodore Roethke
Rough - Stephen Spender
Thoughts During An Air Raid - Stephen Spender
My Sisters, O My Sisters - May Sarton
In Our Time - Muriel Rukeyser
Despisals - Muriel Rukeyser
The Ballad Of Orange And Grape - Muriel Rukeyser
The World Is So DIfficult To Give Up... - David Ignatiow
This Is The SOlution, To Be Happy With Slaughter... - David Ignatiow
Here I Am WIth Mike In Hand, Shooting Down The Rapids... - David Ignatiow
I Killed A Fly... - David Ignatiow
What About Dying?... - David Ignatiow
Scars - William Stafford
It Is - William Stafford
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas
If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love - Dylan Thomas
Happiness - John Ciardi
The Olf Flame - Rovert Lowell
Skunk Hour - Rovert Lowell
Epilogue - Rovert Lowell
Crossing Over - William Meredith
See It Was Like This When... - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Secret Of My Endurance - Charles Bukowski
Thanksgrieving - Howard Nemerov
Sonnet For Minimalists - Mona Van Duyn
Shame - Richard Wilbur
Apology - Richard Wilbur
Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World - Richard Wilbur
American Haikus (Excerpt) - Jack Kerouac
Monet Refuses The Operation - Lisel Mueller
America - Allen Ginsberg
Song - John Ashbery
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps - Galway Kinnell
Last Gods - Galway Kinnell

Tracks:

The River Bees - W.S. Merwin
A Blessing - James Wright
The Truth The Dead Know - Anne Sexton
All My Pretty Ones - Anne Sexton
Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou
Even In Paris (Excerpt) - Richard Howard
Diving Into The Wrieck - Adrienne Rich
Omeros (Excerpt) - Derek Walcott
The Song Of The Taste - Gary Snyder
How Poetry Comes To Me - Gary Snyder
Why I Take Good Care Of My Macintosh Computer - Gary Snyder
Daddy - Sylvia Plath
Ariel - Sylvia Plath
The Greatest Poem In The World - David Ray
An Oddly Lovely Day Alone - John Updike
Learning About Easter And Passover - Dan Jaffe
Bang Bang Outishly - Amiri Baraka
Rhythim Blues - Amiri Baraka
Shazam Doowah - Amiri Baraka
The Story Of Issac - Leonard Cohen
Dahomey - Audre Lorde
Putting The Good Things Away - Marge Piercy
Right To Life - Marge Piercy
Keeping Things Whole - Mark Strand
The Way It Is - Mark Strand
The Poem - Mark Strand
Zimmer Imagines Heaven - Paul Zimmer
Yes Lord, He Was Born... - Lucille Clifton
Cruelty - Lucille Clifton

Tracks:

I Have Had To Learn To Live WIth My Face - Diane Wakoski
Dear John, Dear Coltrane - Michael S. Harper
We Were So Poor... - Charles Simic
I Was Stolen By The Gypsies... - Charles Simic
Everybody Knows The Story... - Charles Simic
Lester Leaps In - Al Young
For Poets - Al Young
A Dance For Militant Diletantes - Al Young
Odysseus To Telemachus - Joseph Brodsky
Ode To My Shoes - Erica Jong
Prayer - Joseph Bruchac
Translators Son - Joseph Bruchac
Wonder - Sharon Olds
The Lost Pilot - James Tate
One Kiss - Tess Gallagher
The Tent People Of Beverly Hills - James Ragan
Uh Oh Plutonium - Anne Waldman
The Fine Printing On The Label Of A Bottle Of Non-Alcohol Beer - Adrian Louis
The Sweat Lodge - Adrian Louis
Logan Heights & The World - Juan Felipe Herrera
The Colonel - Carolyn forche
Wild Gratitude - Edward Hirsch
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash - Hoy Harjo
Tia Sophia - Carmen Tafolla
This Is Number 26 - Jimmy Santiago Baca
I Am Offering You This Poem - Jimmy Santiago Baca
Parsley - Rita Dove
Raisin Eyes - Luci Tapahonso
The Children's Undercroft - Donald Revell
The Concrete River - Luis Rodriguez
Tia Chucha - Luis Rodriguez
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud - Li-Young Li

Customer Reviews:

It will break your breath in half!.......2001-04-18

if you're into poetry...this is essential. best purchase of an audio cd i ever made.

Captivating!.......2000-02-11

As an avid fan of poetry, chills run up my spine when I listen to poems I have held in my hands as paper, read by their creators. This album, is a vocalization of our country's history throughout the twentieth century and you will be captivated with each reading. (Particular favorites of mine: Langston Hughes, Alan Ginsburg, Amiri Baraka, Theodore Roethke, Maya Angelou, to name a few).

Astonishing-long overdue per my ears!.......1998-08-01

Received as a gift that keeps on giving. Each hearing's another present. Liner Notes and order of presentation superb.

We need another set like this of more and more and more; find all old Caedmon and Voyager audio tapes plus Burton's Donne and make one! Stuart, light bearer, led the way to this; he is thanked and thanked ever after...

A Feast For The Ears.......1997-07-13

I wonder what our world would be like if our ancestors had learned first to preserve language in an archival form (that is, durable, convenient for shelving, and available for idle perusal) as spoken rather than written. Before we knew how to write, poetry was already a living and ancient art. We knew it as spoken word, recited before a crowd. The recital was as much of a performance as a play. Somewhere in the last two or three millenniums we have forgotten how important the spoken word is to poetry, how far a voice carries toward making the art accessible.

This anthology of 20th century recorded poetry, released without an accompanying text, forces us to reconsider our normally complacent approach to verse. We cannot *read* these poems, we can only *listen* as their creators perform them for us. It's a wonderful opportunity and a thrilling experience!

The collection starts with a scratchy take of Walt Whitman, notable mostly because it is the first recording of a poem. It progresses smoothly through the 20th century via a multi-cultural variety of 79 known and lesser-known poets reading 122 known and lesser-known poems. Most poetry is spoken, some is sung. A few include music. One of these--an excerpt of Jack Kerouac's "American Haikus" punctuated with a saxophone--is one of the high points of the collection. Another--Anne Waldman's clumsy "Uh Oh Plutonium"--is the worst of the bunch. Even it can be excused, as all selections contribute to the theme at the heart of this anthology: at least some poetry, even in this book-bound age, is meant to be read and heard aloud. The ancient art in its richest tradition is alive and well.

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