Various Artists

Poetry Speaks

Release date October, 2001

Tracklist

1
Poetry Speaks Introduction
0:54
0:54
2
Biography of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
0:33
0:33
3
The Bugle Song (excerpt)
0:53
0:53
4
The Charge of the Light Brigade (excerpt)
1:20
1:20
5
Biography of Robert Browning
0:51
0:51
6
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix I
0:55
0:55
7
Biography of Walt Whitman
0:39
0:39
8
America (excerpt)
0:39
0:39
9
Biography of William Butler Yeats
1:19
1:19
10
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (discussion)
2:02
2:02
11
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
1:08
1:08
12
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
1:17
1:17
13
Biography of Gertrude Stein
0:55
0:55
14
Christian Berard
0:50
0:50
15
She Bowed to Her Brother
2:19
2:19
16
Biography of Robert Frost
0:48
0:48
17
The Oven Bird
0:55
0:55
18
The Road Not Taken
1:05
1:05
19
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
0:53
0:53
20
Nothing Gold Can Stay
0:36
0:36
21
The Silken Tent
0:48
0:48
22
Biography of Carl Sandburg
0:48
0:48
23
Grass
0:48
0:48
24
Cool Truths
1:12
1:12
25
107 from The People, Yes
2:54
2:54
26
Biography of Wallace Stevens
1:01
1:01
27
Fabliau of Florida
0:48
0:48
28
Bantams in Pine-Woods
0:54
0:54
29
So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
2:09
2:09
30
No Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself
1:30
1:30
31
Biography of William Carlos Williams
0:54
0:54
32
Queen-Anne's-Lace
0:50
0:50
33
To Elsie
1:47
1:47
34
The Red Wheelbarrow
0:16
0:16
35
Biography of Ezra Pound
1:15
1:15
36
Cantico Del Sole
0:58
0:58
37
Hugh Selwyn Maugerly II, IV, and V
2:59
2:59
38
XLV from The Cantos
3:12
3:12
39
Biography of Hilda Doolittle
0:45
0:45
40
Helen in Egypt (excerpt)
3:32
3:32
41
Biography of Robinson Jeffers
0:37
0:37
42
The Day Is a Poem (September 19, 1939)
1:42
1:42
43
Oh, Lovely Rock
2:38
2:38
44
Biography of John Crowe Ransom
0:32
0:32
45
Captain Carpenter
3:48
3:48
46
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
1:13
1:13
47
Biography of T.S. Eliot
0:49
0:49
48
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
8:40
8:40
49
La Figlia Che Piange
2:14
2:14
50
Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay
0:32
0:32
51
Recuerdo
1:24
1:24
52
I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear
0:57
0:57
53
Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
2:30
2:30
54
Biography of Dorothy Parker
0:43
0:43
55
One Perfect Rose
0:53
0:53
56
Résumé
0:20
0:20
57
Afternoon
0:46
0:46
58
Biography of E.E. Cummings
0:41
0:41
59
anyone lived in a pretty how town
3:57
3:57
60
as freedom is a breakfastfood
2:30
2:30
61
Biography of Louise Bogan
0:31
0:31
62
The Dream
1:57
1:57
63
Song for the Last Act
2:47
2:47
64
Biography of Melvin B. Tolson
0:43
0:43
65
An Ex-Judge at the Bar
2:59
2:59
66
Dark Symphony V and VI
1:53
1:53
67
Biography of Laura (Riding) Jackson
0:45
0:45
68
Death as Death
0:57
0:57
69
Nothing So Far
1:26
1:26
70
Biography of Langston Hughes
0:47
0:47
71
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
2:24
2:24
72
Mother to Son
0:47
0:47
73
The Weary Blues
1:46
1:46
74
Harlem [2]
0:27
0:27
75
Biography of Ogden Nash
0:53
0:53
76
I Do, I Will, I Have
1:25
1:25
77
I Must Tell You About My Novel
1:40
1:40
78
Biography of W.H. Auden
0:35
0:35
79
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
3:55
3:55
80
Musée des Beaux Arts
1:22
1:22
81
If I Could Tell You
1:15
1:15
82
Biography of Louis MacNeice
0:38
0:38
83
Conversation
1:16
1:16
84
Meeting Point
2:36
2:36
85
Biography of Theodore Roethke
0:37
0:37
86
My Papa's Waltz
0:53
0:53
87
The Waking
1:32
1:32
88
I Knew a Woman
1:43
1:43
89
Biography of Elizabeth Bishop
0:39
0:39
90
The Fish
2:31
2:31
91
from Crose in England
4:20
4:20
92
Biography of Robert Hayden
0:54
0:54
93
Those Winter Sundays
0:53
0:53
94
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X)
2:55
2:55
95
Biography of Muriel Rukeyser
0:44
0:44
96
Night Feeding
1:48
1:48
97
The Poem as Mask
1:08
1:08
98
Waiting for Icarus
1:37
1:37
99
Biography of William Stafford
0:59
0:59
100
The Star in the Hills
1:32
1:32
101
Traveling Through the Dark
1:37
1:37
102
Biography of Randall Jarrell
0:37
0:37
103
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
0:29
0:29
104
Seele im Raum
3:41
3:41
105
Biography of John Berryman
0:39
0:39
106
The Ball Poem
1:22
1:22
107
4 from The Dream Songs
1:22
1:22
108
22 from The Dream Songs
1:34
1:34
109
Biography of Dylan Thomas
0:43
0:43
110
Fern Hill
3:59
3:59
111
Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred
1:20
1:20
112
Biography of Robert Lowell
0:55
0:55
113
Skunk Hour
2:36
2:36
114
Home After Three Months Away
1:58
1:58
115
Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks
0:55
0:55
116
A Song in the Front Yard
1:01
1:01
117
Kitchenette Building
1:01
1:01
118
We Real Cool
0:51
0:51
119
Biography of Robert Duncan
0:40
0:40
120
Poetry, a Natural Thing
1:22
1:22
121
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
1:30
1:30
122
Biography of Philip Larkin
0:35
0:35
123
Places, Loved Ones
0:57
0:57
124
The Old Fools
3:03
3:03
125
Biography of Denise Levertov
0:45
0:45
126
The Secret
1:07
1:07
127
Her Sadness
1:21
1:21
128
Biography of Allen Ginsberg
0:38
0:38
129
Howl (excerpt)
3:21
3:21
130
A Supermarket in California
2:17
2:17
131
Biography of Frank O'Hara
0:33
0:33
132
Ave Maria
1:35
1:35
133
Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)
0:48
0:48
134
Biography of Anne Sexton
0:34
0:34
135
The Truth the Dead Know
1:17
1:17
136
The Operation
7:50
7:50
137
Biography of Etheridge Knight
0:33
0:33
138
The Idea of Ancestry
2:58
2:58
139
Belly Song
2:55
2:55
140
Biography of Sylvia Plath
0:38
0:38
141
Daddy
3:41
3:41
142
Lady Lazarus
3:13
3:13

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