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

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▼ CD 1
#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	The Charge of the Light Brigade recording of: The Charge of the Light Brigade writer: Lord Alfred Tennyson	Alfred, Lord Tennyson		2:20
2	Come Into the Garden, Maud recording of: Come Into the Garden, Maud writer: Lord Alfred Tennyson	Alfred, Lord Tennyson		0:20
3	How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix (excerpt)	Robert Browning		0:58
4	America (excerpt) partial recording of: America lyricist: Walt Whitman (19th c. American poet, essayist, and journalist)	Walt Whitman		0:38
5	The Lake Isle of Innisfree	William Butler Yeats		3:11
6	The Song of the Old Mother	William Butler Yeats		0:55
7	Lucinda Matlock	Edgar Lee Masters		0:58
8	Emily Sparks	Edgar Lee Masters		0:52
9	The Creation	James Weldon Johnson		4:26
10	If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso	Gertrude Stein		3:38
11	The Road Not Taken recording of: The Road Not Taken (Poem) lyricist: Robert Frost (American poet)	Robert Frost		1:04
12	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Robert Frost		0:56
13	The People, Yes (excerpt)	Carl Sandburg		3:13
14	So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch	Wallace Stevens		2:11
15	The Red Wheelbarrow	William Carlos Williams		0:16
16	To Elsie	William Carlos Williams		1:47
17	Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (excerpt)	Ezra Pound		3:02
18	Helen in Egypt (excerpt)	Hilda Doolittle		3:35
19	Journey of the Magi (with Introduction)	T. S. Eliot		3:19
20	Recuerdo recording of: Recuerdo (1919 poem) lyricist: Edna St. Vincent Millay	Edna St. Vincent Millay		1:30
21	Love Is Not All	Edna St. Vincent Millay		1:15
22	Résumé	Dorothy Parker		0:21
23	The Lady's Reward	Dorothy Parker		0:57
24	As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood	E. E. Cummings		2:33
25	To Juan at the Winter Solstice	Robert Graves		2:21
26	John 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 Benét		3:51
27	Strong Men	Sterling Brown		3:00
28	The Negro Speaks of Rivers (with intro)	Langston Hughes		0:57
29	The Weary Blues (with intro)	Langston Hughes		1:47
30	Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man	Ogden Nash		2:03
31	King of the River	Stanley Kunitz		3:17
32	The Caves of Nakedness	W. H. Auden		6:29
33	I Knew a Woman	Theodore Roethke		1:47
34	Elegy for Jane	Theodore Roethke		1:12
35	Late Air	Elizabeth Bishop		0:33
36	The Fish	Elizabeth Bishop		2:41

▼ CD 2
#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	Those Winter Sundays	Robert Hayden		0:52
2	The Ballad of Orange and Grape	Muriel Rukeyser		2:46
3	To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century	Muriel Rukeyser		1:02
4	#23 (The Lay of Ike)	John Berryman		1:11
5	#36 (The High Ones Die...)	John Berryman		1:28
6	The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...	David Ignatow		0:23
7	This Is the Solution, to Be Happy With Slaughter...	David Ignatow		0:19
8	Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...	David Ignatow		0:38
9	I Killed a Fly...	David Ignatow		0:29
10	What About Dying?...	David Ignatow		0:52
11	Passing Remark	William Stafford		0:48
12	Serving With Gideon	William Stafford		1:17
13	And Death Shall Have No Dominium	Dylan Thomas		1:44
14	The Tombstone Told When She Died	Dylan Thomas		1:52
15	The Mother	Gwendolyn Brooks		2:34
16	We Real Cool	Gwendolyn Brooks		1:36
17	Skunk Hour	Robert Lowell		2:25
18	Crossing Over	William Meredith		2:17
19	See It Was Like This When...	Lawrence Ferlinghetti		0:39
20	Underwear	Lawrence Ferlinghetti		3:34
21	The Secret of My Endurance	Charles Bukowski		2:16
22	Ray	Hayden Carruth		2:44
23	Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	Richard Wilbur		1:54
24	American Haikus	Jack Kerouac		6:08
25	Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries	Denise Levertov		3:45
26	Monet Refuses the Operation	Denise Levertov		2:28
27	Woodchucks	Maxine Kumin		1:57
28	America 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 Ginsberg		8:47
29	Still	A.R. Ammons		2:40
30	My Philosophy of Life	John Ashbery		4:08
31	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	Galway Kinnell		1:31
32	Last Gods	Galway Kinnell		2:03
33	A Blessing	James Wright		1:49
34	All My Pretty Ones	Anne Sexton		3:26
35	For My Lover, Returning to His Wife	Anne Sexton		3:06

▼ CD 3
#	Title	Artist	Rating	Length
1	Even in Paris (excerpt)	Richard Howard		6:29
2	Diving Into the Wreck	Adrienne Rich		4:03
3	Lovesong	Ted Hughes		2:12
4	Omeros (excerpt)	Derek Walcott		3:02
5	The Song of the Taste	Gary Snyder		0:59
6	Why I Take Good Care of My MacIntosh Computer	Gary Snyder		1:30
7	The Idea of Ancestry	Etheridge Knight		3:10
8	Daddy	Sylvia Plath		3:41
9	The Greatest Poem in the World	David Ray		1:20
10	An Oddly Lovely Day Alone	John Updike		2:10
11	Bang, Bang Outishly	Amiri Baraka		1:32
12	Rhythim Blues	Amiri Baraka		0:24
13	Shazam Doowah	Amiri Baraka		0:51
14	Dahomey	Audre Lorde		2:10
15	Right to Life	Marge Piercy		4:10
16	The Poem	Mark Strand		2:31
17	Zimmer Imagines Heaven	Paul Zimmer		1:59
18	Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty	Lucille Clifton		0:40
19	I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face	Diane Wakoski		6:43
20	We Were So Poor...	Charles Simic		0:30
21	I Was Stolen by the Gypsies...	Charles Simic		0:36
22	Everybody Knows the Story...	Charles Simic		0:43
23	Death of a Naturalist	Seamus Heaney		2:06
24	Lester Leaps In	Al Young		1:09
25	A Dance for Militant Dilettantes	Al Young		1:29
26	Fire	Gloria Vando		4:08
27	Odysseus to Telemachus	Joseph Brodsky		1:40
28	Sometimes It's Better to Laugh 'Honest Injun'	Simon J. Ortiz		2:55
29	Ode to My Shoes	Erica Jong		1:49

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