Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006)

Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006)

Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2006-04-18
Music Label: Shout! Factory
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Charge of the Light Brigade
  2. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix [Excerpt]
  3. America [Excerpt]
  4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  5. The Song of the Old Mother
  6. Lucinda Matlock
  7. Emily Sparks
  8. The Creation
  9. If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
  10. The Road Not Taken
  11. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  12. From the People, Yes (#90)
  13. So and So Reclining on Her Couch
  14. For Elsie [From Spring and All]
  15. From Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
  16. From Helen in Egypt [Excerpt]
  17. Journey of the Magi (With Introduction)
  18. Recuerdo
  19. Love Is Not All
  20. The Lady's Reward
  21. As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood
  22. To Juan at the Winter Solstice
  23. From John Brown's Body
  24. Strong Man
  25. The Negro Speaks of Rivers (With Intro)
  26. The Waery Blues (With Intro)
  27. Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
  28. King of the River
  29. The Cave of Nakedness
  30. I Knew a Woman
  31. Elegy for Jane
  32. Late Air
  33. The Fish
Music CD 2
  1. Those Winter Sundays
  2. The Ballad of Orange and Grape
  3. To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
  4. #23 (The Lay of Ike)
  5. #36 (The High Ones Die...)
  6. Here I Am with Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
  7. What About Dying?...
  8. Passing Remark
  9. Serving with Gideon
  10. And Death Shall Have No Dominion
  11. The Tombstone Told When She Died
  12. The Mother
  13. We Real Cool
  14. Skunk Hour
  15. Crossing Over
  16. See It Was Like This When...
  17. Underwear
  18. The Secret of My Endurance
  19. Ray
  20. Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
  21. American Haikus [Excerpt]
  22. Death Psalm: O Lord
  23. Monet Refuses the Operation
  24. Woodchucks
  25. America
  26. Still
  27. My Philosophy of Life
  28. After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
  29. Last Gods
  30. A Blessing
  31. All My Pretty Ones
  32. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
Music CD 3
  1. Even in Paris [Excerpt]
  2. Diving into the Wreck
  3. Lovesong
  4. Omeros [Excerpt]
  5. The Song of the Taste
  6. Why I Take Goos Care of My Macintosh Computer
  7. The Idea of Ancestry
  8. Daddy
  9. The Greatest Porm in the World
  10. An Oddly Lovely Day Alone
  11. Bang, Bang Outishly
  12. Shazam Doowah
  13. Dahomey
  14. Right to Life
  15. The Poem
  16. Zimmer Imagines Heaven
  17. Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty
  18. I Have Had to Learn to Live with My Face
  19. We Were So Poor...
  20. I Was Stolen by the Gypsies...
  21. Everybody Knows the Story...
  22. Death of a Naturalist
  23. Lester Leaps In
  24. A Dfance for Militant Dilettantes
  25. Fire
  26. Odysseus to Telemachus
  27. Sometimes It's Better to Laugh 'Honest Injun
  28. Ode to My Shoes
Music CD 4
  1. Wonder
  2. The Lost Pilot
  3. Puerto Rican Obituary [Excerpt]
  4. Uh Oh Plutonium
  5. The Fine Printing on the Label of a Beer of Non-Alcohol Beer
  6. The Sweat Lodge
  7. Facing It
  8. Logan Heights and the World
  9. The Colonel
  10. The History of Armenia
  11. Grace
  12. Parsley
  13. The Long Meadow
  14. The Floral Apron
  15. Raisin Eyes
  16. The Concrete River
  17. My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading out Loud
  18. Two Standards
  19. I Saw You Walking
  20. The Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre
  21. After the Gig: Mick Jagger
  22. Morning Broke on My Cabin Inverted, Tempest in My Forehead
  23. Eleven More Days
  24. Simon Peter
  25. Fragments of the Forgotten War
  26. Lucky Criminals
  27. The Slaughter
  28. Scab

Music reviews of Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006)

Music Review: Excellent, mainly for the 1st and 2nd CDs
Rating: 4 Stars

This is an excellent collection, worth having, but primarily for the first two CDs. (I wasn't aware any recording of Walt Whitman existed at all.)

Many of the recordings are surprising for the style of reading. Whitman's is one -- his accent made me gape. Likewise, the style of Yeats or Eliot is a real insight into how poetry was received in a different time.

I give the collection 4 stars instead of 5 for its unevenness. I can think of vastly more interesting people than Rebekah Presson Mosby to compile such a collection. And the selection of contemporary poets is erratic with glaring omissions and curious (even pointless) inclusions. Why three selections of Amiri Baraka (whose work I do like) but only one of Seamus Heaney? Or A.R. Ammons or John Ashberry or Adrienne Rich?

Sadly missing (a partial list and in no particular order): Louise Gluck, Nikki Giovanni, Mark Doty, Thomas Hardy, Marianne Moore, Philip Larkin, W.S. Merwin, Michael Ondaatje. (Of course, I have my own biases.)

And it would have been wonderful to hear some poets back to back on the same work. For example, William Butler Yeats and Galway Kinnell reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (Yeats's work and one of Kinnell's favorites). Admittedly, this might be asking too much.

So, on balance, very worth having for the recordings of the late poets.
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Description of Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006)

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

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