Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006

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Tracklist

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CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1The Charge of the Light BrigadeAlfred, Lord Tennyson2:20
2Come Into the Garden, MaudAlfred, Lord Tennyson0:20
3How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix (excerpt)
Robert Browning0:58
4America (excerpt)
partial recording of:
America
lyricist:
Walt Whitman (19th c. American poet, essayist, and journalist)
Walt Whitman0:38
5The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats3:11
6The Song of the Old Mother
William Butler Yeats0:55
7Lucinda Matlock
Edgar Lee Masters0:58
8Emily Sparks
Edgar Lee Masters0:52
9The Creation
James Weldon Johnson4:26
10If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
Gertrude Stein3:38
11The Road Not Taken
recording of:
The Road Not Taken (Poem)
lyricist:
Robert Frost (American poet)
Robert Frost1:04
12Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost0:56
13The People, Yes (excerpt)
Carl Sandburg3:13
14So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
Wallace Stevens2:11
15The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams0:16
16To Elsie
William Carlos Williams1:47
17Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (excerpt)
Ezra Pound3:02
18Helen in Egypt (excerpt)
Hilda Doolittle3:35
19Journey of the Magi (with Introduction)
T. S. Eliot3:19
20Recuerdo
recording of:
Recuerdo (1919 poem)
lyricist:
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay1:30
21Love Is Not All
Edna St. Vincent Millay1:15
22Résumé
Dorothy Parker0:21
23The Lady's Reward
Dorothy Parker0:57
24As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood
E. E. Cummings2:33
25To Juan at the Winter Solstice
Robert Graves2:21
26John Brown's Body (excerpt)
recording of:
John Brown’s Body (Glory, Glory, Hallelujah)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 771)
Stephen Vincent Benét3:51
27Strong Men
Sterling Brown3:00
28The Negro Speaks of Rivers (with intro)
Langston Hughes0:57
29The Weary Blues (with intro)
Langston Hughes1:47
30Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
Ogden Nash2:03
31King of the River
Stanley Kunitz3:17
32The Caves of Nakedness
W. H. Auden6:29
33I Knew a Woman
Theodore Roethke1:47
34Elegy for Jane
Theodore Roethke1:12
35Late Air
Elizabeth Bishop0:33
36The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop2:41
CD 2
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden0:52
2The Ballad of Orange and Grape
Muriel Rukeyser2:46
3To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
Muriel Rukeyser1:02
4#23 (The Lay of Ike)
John Berryman1:11
5#36 (The High Ones Die...)
John Berryman1:28
6The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...
David Ignatow0:23
7This Is the Solution, to Be Happy With Slaughter...
David Ignatow0:19
8Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
David Ignatow0:38
9I Killed a Fly...
David Ignatow0:29
10What About Dying?...
David Ignatow0:52
11Passing Remark
William Stafford0:48
12Serving With Gideon
William Stafford1:17
13And Death Shall Have No Dominium
Dylan Thomas1:44
14The Tombstone Told When She Died
Dylan Thomas1:52
15The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks2:34
16We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks1:36
17Skunk Hour
Robert Lowell2:25
18Crossing Over
William Meredith2:17
19See It Was Like This When...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti0:39
20Underwear
Lawrence Ferlinghetti3:34
21The Secret of My Endurance
Charles Bukowski2:16
22Ray
Hayden Carruth2:44
23Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Richard Wilbur1:54
24American Haikus
Jack Kerouac6:08
25Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries
Denise Levertov3:45
26Monet Refuses the Operation
Denise Levertov2:28
27Woodchucks
Maxine Kumin1:57
28America
recording of:
America (Ginsberg poem)
lyricist:
Allen Ginsberg (American poet and writer) (in 1956)
publisher:
Blue Mountain Music Ltd, Mother Music and Universal Music Publishing B.V. (Benelux subsidiary of Universal Music Publishing Group)
Allen Ginsberg8:47
29Still
A.R. Ammons2:40
30My Philosophy of Life
John Ashbery4:08
31After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Galway Kinnell1:31
32Last Gods
Galway Kinnell2:03
33A Blessing
James Wright1:49
34All My Pretty Ones
Anne Sexton3:26
35For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
Anne Sexton3:06
CD 3
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Even in Paris (excerpt)
Richard Howard6:29
2Diving Into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich4:03
3Lovesong
Ted Hughes2:12
4Omeros (excerpt)
Derek Walcott3:02
5The Song of the Taste
Gary Snyder0:59
6Why I Take Good Care of My MacIntosh Computer
Gary Snyder1:30
7The Idea of Ancestry
Etheridge Knight3:10
8Daddy
Sylvia Plath3:41
9The Greatest Poem in the World
David Ray1:20
10An Oddly Lovely Day Alone
John Updike2:10
11Bang, Bang Outishly
Amiri Baraka1:32
12Rhythim Blues
Amiri Baraka0:24
13Shazam Doowah
Amiri Baraka0:51
14Dahomey
Audre Lorde2:10
15Right to Life
Marge Piercy4:10
16The Poem
Mark Strand2:31
17Zimmer Imagines Heaven
Paul Zimmer1:59
18Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty
Lucille Clifton0:40
19I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
Diane Wakoski6:43
20We Were So Poor...
Charles Simic0:30
21I Was Stolen by the Gypsies...
Charles Simic0:36
22Everybody Knows the Story...
Charles Simic0:43
23Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney2:06
24Lester Leaps In
Al Young1:09
25A Dance for Militant Dilettantes
Al Young1:29
26Fire
Gloria Vando4:08
27Odysseus to Telemachus
Joseph Brodsky1:40
28Sometimes It's Better to Laugh 'Honest Injun'
Simon J. Ortiz2:55
29Ode to My Shoes
Erica Jong1:49
CD 4