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Poetry speaks expanded : hear poets from Tennyson to Plath read their own work / Elise Paschen & Rebekah Presson Mosby, editors ; Charles Osgood, narrator.
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[2nd ed.].
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Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, ©2007.
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xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 3 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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American poetry
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Summary note
Collects works by forty-seven important poets, arranged chronologically by birth order from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Sylvia Plath, and includes biographies, essays by accomplished contemporary poets, and CD recordings of each featured poet reading his or her own works.
Notes
Rev. ed. of: Poetry speaks, 2001.
Includes index.
Participant(s)/Performer(s)
Narrator: Charles Osgood.
Contents
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). Anthony Hecht on Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; The bugle song / Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; The charge of the Light Brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tithonus / Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning (1812-1889). Edward Hirsch on Robert Browning ; My last Duchess / Robert Browning ; Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning ; Meeting at night / Robert Browning ; How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning
Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman ; from Song of myself / Walt Whitman ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman ; Bivouac on a mountain side / Walt Whitman ; The last invocation / Walt Whitman ; America / Walt Whitman
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Seamus Heaney on William Butler Yeats ; The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats ; Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats ; The second coming / William Butler Yeats ; Among school children / William Butler Yeats ; Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats ; Crazy Jane on the day of judgment / William Butler Yeats ; Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 / William Butler Yeats
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). C.D. Wright on Gertrude Stein ; Christian Berard / Gertrude Stein ; She bowed to her brother / Gertrude Stein ; If I told him / Gertrude Stein
Robert Frost (1874-1963). Richard Wilbur on Robert Frost ; The oven bird / Robert Frost ; The road not taken / Robert Frost ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost ; Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost ; To earthward / Robert Frost ; The silken tent / Robert Frost ; Come in / Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). Rosellen Brown on Carl Sandburg ; Chicago / Carl Sandburg ; Fog / Carl Sandburg ; Grass / Carl Sandburg ; Cool tombs / Carl Sandburg ; 107 from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). Mark Strand on Wallace Stevens ; Fabliau of Florida / Wallace Stevens ; Bantams in Pine-Woods / Wallace Stevens ; Thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird / Wallace Stevens ; The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens ; So-and-so reclining on her couch / Wallace Stevens ; Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself / Wallace Stevens
James Joyce (1882-1941). Paul Muldoon on James Joyce ; Chamber music II / James Joyce ; Chamber music X / James Joyce ; Chamber music XVIII / James Joyce ; She weeps over Rahoon / James Joyce ; Ecce Puer / James Joyce ; Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake / James Joyce
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams ; Queen-Anne's-Lace / William Carlos Williams ; Spring and all / William Carlos Williams ; To Elsie / William Carlos Williams ; The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams ; To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams ; A sort of a song / William Carlos Williams.
Ezra Pound (1885-1972). Charles Bernstein on Ezra Pound ; The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound ; Cantico del sole / Ezra Pound ; In a station of the Metro / Ezra Pound ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound ; XLV from the Cantos / Ezra Pound
H.D. (1886-1961). Rafael Campo on H.D. ; Garden / H.D. ; Orchard / H.D. ; Helen / H.D. ; Oread / H.D. ; from Helen in Egypt / H.D.
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962). Robert Hass on Robinson Jeffers ; Hurt Hawks / Robinson Jeffers ; The Purse-Seine / Robinson Jeffers ; The day is a poem (September 19, 1939) / Robinson Jeffers ; Oh, lovely rock / Robinson Jeffers ; Carmel Point / Robinson Jeffers
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) ; John Hollander on John Crowe Ransom ; Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom ; Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom ; Painted head / John Crowe Ransom ; The equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom ; Dead boy / John Crowe Ransom
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). Agha Shahid Ali on T.S. Eliot ; The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot ; La Figlia Che Piange / T.S. Eliot ; Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot ; Burnt Norton from Four Quartets / T.S. Eliot
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). ; Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay ; Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; Love is not all : it is not meat nor drink / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; I shall forget you presently, my dear / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967). Susan Hahn on Dorothy Parker ; One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker ; Résumé / Dorothy Parker ; News item / Dorothy Parker ; Afternoon / Dorothy Parker ; A pig's-eye view of literature / Dorothy Parker ; The lady's reward / Dorothy Parker
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962). Brad Leithauser on E.E. Cummings ; In just / E.E. Cummings ; Love is a place / E.E. Cummings ; May I feel said he / E.E. Cummings ; Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E.E. Cummings ; As freedom is a breakfastfood / E.E. Cummings ; Pity this busy monster / E.E. Cummings
Robert Graves (1895-1985). W.S. Merwin on Robert Graves ; The castle / Robert Graves ; Ulysses / Robert Graves ; To Juan at the Winter solstice / Robert Graves ; Return of the Goddess / Robert Graves ; Amergin's charm / Robert Graves ; With her lips only / Robert Graves ; The blue-fly / Robert Graves ; A time of waiting / Robert Graves
Louise Bogan (1897-1970). Richard Howard on Louise Bogan ; Medusa / Louise Bogan ; The Daemon / Louise Bogan ; The sleeping fury / Louise Bogan ; The dream / Louise Bogan ; Song for the last act / Louise Bogan
Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966). Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson ; An ex-judge at the bar / Melvin B. Tolson ; Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson ; Lambda / Melvin B. Tolson
Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). Forrest Gander on Laura (Riding) Jackson ; O vocables of love / Laura (Riding) Jackson ; Death as death / Laura (Riding) Jackson ; Nothing so far / Laura (Riding) Jackson ; Take hands / Laura (Riding) Jackson
Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Al Young on Langston Hughes ; The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes ; Mother to son / Langston Hughes ; The weary blues / Langston Hughes ; I, too / Langston Hughes ; Good morning / Langston Hughes ; Harlem [2] / Langston Hughes ; Luck / Langston Hughes.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971). Billy Collins on Ogden Nash ; The trouble with women is men / Ogden Nash ; Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Ogden Nash ; I do, I will, I have / Ogden Nash ; I must tell you about my novel / Ogden Nash ; Laments for a dying language / Ogden Nash
W.H. Auden (1907-1973). Dana Gioia on W.H. Auden ; O where are you going? / W.H. Auden ; Funeral blues / W.H. Auden ; As I walked out one evening / W.H. Auden ; In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden ; Musee des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden ; If I could tell you / W.H. Auden
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963). Peter McDonald on Louis MacNeice ; Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice ; Conversation / Louis MacNeice ; Meeting point / Louis MacNeice ; The British Museum Reading Room / Louis MacNeice ; Star-gazer / Louis MacNeice
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963). Joy Harjo on Theodore Roethke ; My Papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke ; The waking / Theodore Roethke ; I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke ; The sloth / Theodore Roethke ; In a dark time / Theodore Roethke
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop ; The fish / Elizabeth Bishop ; The map / Elizabeth Bishop ; The armadillo / Elizabeth Bishop ; Crusoe in England / Elizabeth Bishop ; One art / Elizabeth Bishop ; In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop
May Swenson (1913-1989). Grace Shulman on May Swenson ; Question / May Swenson ; Watch / May Swenson ; At Truro / May Swenson ; Orbiter 5 shows how Earth looks from the moon / May Swenson ; July 4th / May Swenson ; The woods at night / May Swenson
Robert Hayden (1913-1980) ; Marilyn Nelson on Robert Hayden ; Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden ; Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden ; Homage to the Empress of the Blues / Robert Hayden ; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) / Robert Hayden ; Words in the mourning time / Robert Hayden
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) ; Sharon Olds on Muriel Rukeyser ; Night feeding / Muriel Rukeyser ; from Letter to the front / Muriel Rukeyser ; The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser ; Waiting for Icarus / Muriel Rukeyser ; Ballad of Orange and Grape / Muriel Rukeyser
William Stafford (1914-1993) ; Robert Bly on William Stafford ; The star in the hills / William Stafford ; Traveling through the dark / William Stafford ; Passing remark / William Stafford ; Saint Matthew and all / William Stafford ; Report to Crazy Horse / William Stafford
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) ; Peter Sacks on Randall Jarrell ; 90 North / Randall Jarrell ; Death of the Ball Turret Gunner / Randall Jarrell ; Selle im Raum / Randall Jarrell ; Next day / Randall Jarrell
John Berryman (1914-1972) ; Elizabeth Spires on John Berryman ; The ball poems / John Berryman ; 4 from the Dream songs / John Berryman ; 14 from the Dream songs / John Berryman ; 22 from the Dream songs / John Berryman ; "Sole watchman" from Eleven addresses to the Lord / John Berryman
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) ; Glyn Maxwell on Dylan Thomas ; And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas ; Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas ; Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred / Dylan Thomas ; In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas.
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) ; Frank Bidart on Robert Lowell ; Skunk hour / Robert Lowell ; Home after three months away / Robert Lowell ; "To speak of woe that is in marriage" / Robert Lowell ; For the Union dead / Robert Lowell ; Epilogue / Robert Lowell
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) ; Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks ; A song in the front yard / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks ; We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks ; The boy died in my alley / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Speech to the young / Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Duncan (1919-1988) Michael Palmer on Robert Duncan ; Poetry : a natural thing / Robert Duncan ; Structure of Rime I / Robert Duncan ; Often I am permitted ot return to a meadow / Robert Duncan ; Sentinels / Robert Duncan
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) ; Jason Shinder on Jack Kerouac ; MacDougal Street Blues : Canto Uno / Jack Kerouac ; 7th chorus from Orizaba 210 Blues / Jack Kerouac ; from Book of haikus / Jack Kerouac ; from [Biographical résumé, Fall 1957] / Jack Kerouac ; 99th chorus from Mexico City Blues / Jack Kerouac ; 114th chorus from Mexico City Blues / Jack Kerouac ; Rimbaud / Jack Kerouac
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) ; Mary Jo Salter on Philip Larkin ; Places, loved ones / Philip Larkin ; The Whitsun weddings / Philip Larkin ; Wild oats / Philip Larkin ; This be the verse / Philip Larkin ; The old fools / Philip Larkin
Denise Levertov (1923-1997) ; Nancy Willard on Denise Levertov ; Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov ; The secret / Denise Levertov ; Talking to grief / Denise Levertov ; Woman alone / Denise Levertov ; Her sadness / Denise Levertov
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) ; C.K. Williams on Allen Ginsberg ; from Howl / Allen Ginsberg ; A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg ; America / Allen Ginsberg
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) ; David Lehman on Frank O'Hara ; Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara ; Poem (Hate is only one of many responses) / Frank O'Hara ; The day lady died / Frank O'Hara ; Ave Maria / Frank O'Hara ; Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) / Frank O'Hara
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) ; Kay Ryan on Anne Sexton ; The truth the dead know / Anne Sexton ; Her kind / Anne Sexton ; The operation / Anne Sexton ; For my lover, returning to his wife / Anne Sexton ; Rumpelstiltskin / Anne Sexton
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) ; Christopher Reid on Ted Hughes ; The thought-fox / Ted Hughes ; The howling of wolves / Ted Hughes ; Crow's first lesson / Ted Hughes ; February 17 / Ted Hughes ; A pink wool knitted dress / Ted Hughes
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) ; Elizabeth Alexander on Etheridge Knight ; The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight ; Hard Rock returns to prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane / Etheridge Knight ; Belly song / Etheridge Knight ; Dark Prophecy : I sing of shine / Etheridge Knight ; The violent space / Etheridge Knight
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) ; Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) ; Tulips / Sylvia Plath ; Morning song / Sylvia Plath ; I am vertical / Sylvia Plath ; Daddy / Sylvia Plath ; Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath.
Disc 1. Introduction / by Charles Osgood
from "The bugle song" ; from The charge of the light brigade / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning
from America / Walt Whitman
Yeats on "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" ; Lake Isle of Innisfree ; Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 / William Butler Yeats
Christian Berard ; She bowed to her brother / Gertrude Stein
The oven bird ; The road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Nothing gold can stay ; The silken tent / Robert Frost
Grass ; Cool tombs ; 107 from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg
So-and-so reclining on her couch ; Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself / Wallace Stevens
from Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake / James Joyce
Queen-Anne's-Lace ; To Elsie ; The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams
Cantico del sole ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; XLV from the Cantos / Ezra Pound
from Helen in Egypt / H.D.
The day is a poem (September 19, 1939) ; Oh, lovely rock / Robinson Jeffers
Captain Carpenter ; Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom
Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; La Figlia Che Piange / T.S. Eliot.
Disc 2. Recuerdo ; I shall forget you presently, my dear ; Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies / Edna St. Vincent Millay
One perfect rose ; Resume ; Afternoon / Dorothy Parker
from Anyone lived in a pretty how town ; As freedom is a breakfastfood / E.E. Cummings
The castle ; To Juan at the Winter solstice ; The Blue-fly / Robert Graves
The dream ; Song for the last act / Louise Bogan
An ex-judge at the bar ; Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson
Death as death ; Nothing so far / Laura (Riding) Jackson
The Negro speaks of rivers ; Mother to son ; The weary blues ; Harlem [2] / Langston Hughes
I do, I will, I have ; I must tell you about my novel / Ogden Nash
In memory of W.B. Yeats ; Musee des Beaux Arts ; If I could tell you / W.H. Auden
Conversation ; Meeting point / Louis MacNeice
My Papa's waltz ; The waking ; I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke
The fish ; from Crusoe in England / Elizabeth Bishop
Question ; The watch / May Swenson
Those winter Sundays ; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) / Robert Hayden
Night feeding ; The poem as mask ; Waiting for Icarus / Muriel Rukeyser.
Disc 3. The star in the hills ; Traveling through the dark / William Stafford
The death of the Ball Turret Gunner ; Selle im Raum / Randall Jarrell
The ball poem ; 4 from The dream songs ; 22 from The dream songs / John Berryman
Fern Hill ; Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred / Dylan Thomas
Skunk hour ; Home after three months away / Robert Lowell
A song in the front yard ; Kitchenette building ; We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry, a natural thing ; Often I am permitted ot return to a meadow Robert Duncan
MacDougal Street Blues : Canto Uno ; from Book of Haikus / Jack Kerouac
Places, loved ones ; The old fools / Philip Larkin
The secret ; Her sadness / Denise Levertov
from Howl ; A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg
Ave Maria ; Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) / Frank O'Hara
The truth the dead know ; from The operation / Anne Sexton
The thought-fox ; February 17 / Ted Hughes
The idea of ancestry ; Belly song / Etheridge Knight
Daddy ; Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath.
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