How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix [Excerpt]
America [Excerpt]
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Song of the Old Mother
Lucinda Matlock
Emily Sparks
The Creation
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
The Road Not Taken
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
From the People, Yes (#90)
So and So Reclining on Her Couch
For Elsie [From Spring and All]
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
From Helen in Egypt [Excerpt]
Journey of the Magi (With Introduction)
Recuerdo
Love Is Not All
The Lady's Reward
As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood
To Juan at the Winter Solstice
From John Brown's Body
Strong Man
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (With Intro)
The Waery Blues (With Intro)
Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
King of the River
The Cave of Nakedness
I Knew a Woman
Elegy for Jane
Late Air
The Fish
Track Listings (32) - Disc #2
Those Winter Sundays
The Ballad of Orange and Grape
To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
#23 (The Lay of Ike)
#36 (The High Ones Die...)
Here I Am with Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
What About Dying?...
Passing Remark
Serving with Gideon
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
The Tombstone Told When She Died
The Mother
We Real Cool
Skunk Hour
Crossing Over
See It Was Like This When...
Underwear
The Secret of My Endurance
Ray
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
American Haikus [Excerpt]
Death Psalm: O Lord
Monet Refuses the Operation
Woodchucks
America
Still
My Philosophy of Life
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Last Gods
A Blessing
All My Pretty Ones
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
Track Listings (28) - Disc #3
Even in Paris [Excerpt]
Diving into the Wreck
Lovesong
Omeros [Excerpt]
The Song of the Taste
Why I Take Goos Care of My Macintosh Computer
The Idea of Ancestry
Daddy
The Greatest Porm in the World
An Oddly Lovely Day Alone
Bang, Bang Outishly
Shazam Doowah
Dahomey
Right to Life
The Poem
Zimmer Imagines Heaven
Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty
I Have Had to Learn to Live with My Face
We Were So Poor...
I Was Stolen by the Gypsies...
Everybody Knows the Story...
Death of a Naturalist
Lester Leaps In
A Dfance for Militant Dilettantes
Fire
Odysseus to Telemachus
Sometimes It's Better to Laugh 'Honest Injun
Ode to My Shoes
Track Listings (28) - Disc #4
Wonder
The Lost Pilot
Puerto Rican Obituary [Excerpt]
Uh Oh Plutonium
The Fine Printing on the Label of a Beer of Non-Alcohol Beer
The Sweat Lodge
Facing It
Logan Heights and the World
The Colonel
The History of Armenia
Grace
Parsley
The Long Meadow
The Floral Apron
Raisin Eyes
The Concrete River
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading out Loud
Two Standards
I Saw You Walking
The Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre
After the Gig: Mick Jagger
Morning Broke on My Cabin Inverted, Tempest in My Forehead
Eleven More Days
Simon Peter
Fragments of the Forgotten War
Lucky Criminals
The Slaughter
Scab
THE ULTIMATE POETRY BOX Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) is an engrossing collection of poems read by the people who wrote them, from the dawn of sound recording to the current day. Over the course o... more »f four CDs and an info-packed book, it tells the story of the past 120 years of poetry in English, from Romanticism (Dylan Thomas) to Modernism (T.S. Eliot), from the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes) to Black Arts (Amiri Baraka), from rhyme and meter (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) to free verse (Adrienne Rich) and beyond. Equally important, it allows listeners to understand exactly how poets intended their poems to be read aloud. With 128 poems read by 98 poets, Poetry On Record is the most comprehensive collection of its kind, covering such famous poets as Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Dorothy Parker, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsburg, and Sylvia Plath, as well as a plethora of lesser-known but highly regarded poets. Poetry On Record is a must-have for any fan of poetry, or for anyone who wants an expertly chosen overview as a starting point. Produced and compiled by noted poetry expert Rebekah Presson Mosby« less
THE ULTIMATE POETRY BOX Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) is an engrossing collection of poems read by the people who wrote them, from the dawn of sound recording to the current day. Over the course of four CDs and an info-packed book, it tells the story of the past 120 years of poetry in English, from Romanticism (Dylan Thomas) to Modernism (T.S. Eliot), from the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes) to Black Arts (Amiri Baraka), from rhyme and meter (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) to free verse (Adrienne Rich) and beyond. Equally important, it allows listeners to understand exactly how poets intended their poems to be read aloud. With 128 poems read by 98 poets, Poetry On Record is the most comprehensive collection of its kind, covering such famous poets as Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Dorothy Parker, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsburg, and Sylvia Plath, as well as a plethora of lesser-known but highly regarded poets. Poetry On Record is a must-have for any fan of poetry, or for anyone who wants an expertly chosen overview as a starting point. Produced and compiled by noted poetry expert Rebekah Presson Mosby
CD Reviews
Incredible collection of recited poetry
David Mandau | Takoma Park, MD | 04/25/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This boxed set is absolutely amazing. Lots of big-name poets as expected but also tons of great poets I'd never heard of before. It's fascinating to hear poetry read by the poets themselves because it adds a whole new dimension to your appreciation and understanding of the poems.
The other very notable aspect of this box is the gorgeous packaging. It comes housed in a sturdy slipcase, and the beautifully illustrated book includes great essays that further deepen your understanding of the poems.
Overall, this is a simply amazing collection for anyone who loves poetry or who might want to try getting their feet wet with it. I'm definitely getting one for my mom on Mother's Day, and I can think of at least three other people who'll be getting it for Christmas.
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Must have if you love or even like poetry
D. Hill | Clovis, CA USA | 01/21/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This set was nominated for a Grammy and I certainly think it is worthy of winning. Rebekah Presson Mosby has compiled and produced an outstanding collection of some of the most important poets to date. To hear Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein in their own voices is truly amazing. It's easy to get lost in the poetry, much nicer than listening to music while driving. I have all of Rebekah Presson Mosby's works and I think this set and Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers are my two favorites."
Vermont Listener
K. M. Huntington | Vermont | 01/05/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Beautiful packaging. I wish there was a tiny bit of space between poems, but neat product."
Poetry on Record
Anne E. Stoll | Grand Rapids, MI | 01/19/2008
(5 out of 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!"
Track Listings (33) - Disc #1