Various Artists

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

Release date April 18, 2006

Tracklist

1
The Charge of the Light Brigade
2:20
2:20
2
Come into the Garden, Maud
0:20
0:20
3
How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix (excerpt)
0:58
0:58
4
America [Excerpt]
0:38
0:38
5
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
3:11
3:11
6
The Song of the Old Mother
0:55
0:55
7
Lucinda Matlock
0:58
0:58
8
Emily Sparks
0:52
0:52
9
The Creation
4:26
4:26
10
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
3:38
3:38
11
The Road Not Taken
1:04
1:04
12
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
0:56
0:56
13
The People, Yes (excerpt)
3:13
3:13
14
So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
2:11
2:11
15
The Red Wheelbarrow
0:16
0:16
16
To Elsie
1:47
1:47
17
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (excerpt)
3:02
3:02
18
Helen in Egypt (excerpt)
3:35
3:35
19
Journey of the Magi (with Introduction)
3:19
3:19
20
Recuerdo
1:30
1:30
21
Love Is Not All
1:15
1:15
22
Résumé
0:21
0:21
23
The Lady's Reward
0:57
0:57
24
as freedom is a breakfastfood
2:33
2:33
25
To Juan At the Winter Solstice
2:21
2:21
26
John Brown's Body (excerpt)
3:51
3:51
27
Strong Men
3:00
3:00
28
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (with intro)
0:57
0:57
29
The Weary Blues (with intro)
1:47
1:47
30
Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man
2:03
2:03
31
King of the River
3:17
3:17
32
The Caves of Nakedness
6:29
6:29
33
I Knew a Woman
1:47
1:47
34
Elegy for Jane
1:12
1:12
35
Late Air
0:33
0:33
36
The Fish
2:41
2:41
37
Those Winter Sundays
0:52
0:52
38
The Ballad of Orange and Grape
2:46
2:46
39
To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
1:02
1:02
40
#23 (The Lay of Ike)
1:11
1:11
41
#36 (The High Ones Die...)
1:28
1:28
42
The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...
0:23
0:23
43
This Is the Solution, to Be Happy With Slaughter...
0:19
0:19
44
Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
0:38
0:38
45
I Killed a Fly...
0:29
0:29
46
What About Dying?...
0:52
0:52
47
Passing Remark
0:48
0:48
48
Serving With Gideon
1:17
1:17
49
And Death Shall Have No Dominium
1:44
1:44
50
The Tombstone Told When She Died
1:52
1:52
51
The Mother
2:34
2:34
52
We Real Cool
1:36
1:36
53
Skunk Hour
2:25
2:25
54
Crossing Over
2:17
2:17
55
See It Was Like This When...
0:39
0:39
56
Underwear
3:34
3:34
57
The Secret of My Endurance
2:16
2:16
58
Ray
2:44
2:44
59
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
1:54
1:54
60
American Haikus
6:08
6:08
61
Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries
3:45
3:45
62
Monet Refuses the Operation
2:28
2:28
63
Woodchucks
1:57
1:57
64
America
8:47
8:47
65
Still
2:40
2:40
66
My Philosophy of Life
4:08
4:08
67
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
1:31
1:31
68
Last Gods
2:03
2:03
69
A Blessing
1:49
1:49
70
All My Pretty Ones
3:26
3:26
71
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
3:06
3:06
72
Even in Paris (excerpt)
6:29
6:29
73
Diving Into The Wreck
4:03
4:03
74
Lovesong
2:12
2:12
75
Omeros (excerpt)
3:02
3:02
76
The Song of the Taste
0:59
0:59
77
Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer
1:30
1:30
78
The Idea of Ancestry
3:10
3:10
79
Daddy
3:41
3:41
80
The Greatest Poem in the World
1:20
1:20
81
An Oddly Loving Day Alone
2:10
2:10
82
Bang, Bang Outishly
1:32
1:32
83
Rhythim Blues
0:24
0:24
84
Shazam Doowah
0:51
0:51
85
Dahomey
2:10
2:10
86
Right to Life
4:10
4:10
87
The Poem
2:31
2:31
88
Zimmer Imagines Heaven
1:59
1:59
89
Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty
0:40
0:40
90
I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
6:43
6:43
91
We Were So Poor...
0:30
0:30
92
I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...
0:36
0:36
93
Everybody Knows the Story...
0:43
0:43
94
Death of a Naturalist
2:06
2:06
95
Lester Leaps In
1:09
1:09
96
A Dance for Militant Diletantes
1:29
1:29
97
Fire
4:08
4:08
98
Odysseus to Telemachus
1:40
1:40
99
Sometimes It's Better to Laugh 'Honest Injun'
2:55
2:55
100
Ode to My Shoes
1:49
1:49
101
Wonder
1:38
1:38
102
The Lost Pilot
1:56
1:56
103
Puerto Rican Obituary (excerpt)
5:34
5:34
104
Uh-Oh Plutonium
3:12
3:12
105
The Fine Printing On the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer
1:30
1:30
106
The Sweat Lodge
1:11
1:11
107
Facing It
1:10
1:10
108
Logan Heights and the World
4:36
4:36
109
The Colonel
2:45
2:45
110
The History of Armenia
3:37
3:37
111
Grace
4:28
4:28
112
Parsley
4:13
4:13
113
The Long Meadow
4:12
4:12
114
The Floral Apron
1:25
1:25
115
Raisin Eyes
1:43
1:43
116
The Concrete River
3:35
3:35
117
My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Aloud
2:29
2:29
118
Two Standards
2:17
2:17
119
I Saw You Walking
1:42
1:42
120
The Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre
1:17
1:17
121
After the Gig: Mick Jagger
1:10
1:10
122
[Morning Broke on My Cabin Inverted, Tempest in My Forehead]
3:47
3:47
123
Eleven More Days
4:52
4:52
124
Simon Peter
2:09
2:09
125
Fragments of the Forgotten War
3:46
3:46
126
Lucky Criminals
2:01
2:01
127
The Slaughter
2:18
2:18
128
Scab
3:14
3:14

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