Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) at Music Hills.com

Music CD 1

Charge of the Light Brigade
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

Music CD 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

Music CD 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

Music CD 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

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

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

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.