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

Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date: April 18, 2006
Studio: Shout! Factory
Number Of Discs: 4
Format: Box set
Average Customer Rating: based on 8 reviews
Track Listing:
Disc: 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
Disc: 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
Disc: 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
Disc: 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
 
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Review:4.5
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

4Awesome if you can hear it....  Sep 28, 2009
It's awesome hearing the poetry in the voices of the poets, and I understand that these are amazingly rare and old recordings, but maybe it wasn't worth including pieces that just can't be understood? Or relate that fact to the customer so that they understand that the quality is diminished because of the oldness and rarity of the pieces.

A follow up reading by a contemporary poet on those pieces would add value to the set, and allow the customer two views of the written work.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

5Poetry on Record  Jan 19, 2008
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!

9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

5Must have if you love or even like poetry  Jan 21, 2007
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.

4 of 6 found the following review helpful:

5Excellent gift for poet  Jan 09, 2007
My sister, a college professor and writer, loved this book. It is beautifully done, from the packaging to the selection of poems.

8 of 11 found the following review helpful:

4Vermont Listener  Jan 05, 2007
Beautiful packaging. I wish there was a tiny bit of space between poems, but neat product.

 
 
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