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

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Poetry

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Charge of the Light Brigade
    2:20
  2. 2.
    Come Into the Garden, Maud
    0:20
  3. 3.
    How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix (excerpt)
    0:58
  4. 4.
    America (excerpt)
    0:38
  5. 5.
    The Lake Isle of Innisfree
    3:11
  6. 6.
    The Song of the Old Mother
    0:55
  7. 7.
    Lucinda Matlock
    0:58
  8. 8.
    Emily Sparks
    0:52
  9. 9.
    The Creation
    4:26
  10. 10.
    If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
    3:38
  11. 11.
    The Road Not Taken
    1:04
  12. 12.
    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    0:56
  13. 13.
    The People, Yes (excerpt)
    3:13
  14. 14.
    So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch
    2:11
  15. 15.
    The Red Wheelbarrow
    0:16
  16. 16.
    To Elsie
    1:47
  17. 17.
    Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (excerpt)
    3:02
  18. 18.
    Helen in Egypt (excerpt)
    3:35
  19. 19.
    Journey of the Magi (with Introduction)
    3:19
  20. 20.
    Recuerdo
    1:30
  21. 21.
    Love Is Not All
    1:15
  22. 22.
    Résumé
    0:21
  23. 23.
    The Lady's Reward
    0:57
  24. 24.
    As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood
    2:33
  25. 25.
    To Juan at the Winter Solstice
    2:21
  26. 26.
    John Brown's Body (excerpt)
    3:51
  27. 27.
    Strong Men
    3:00
  28. 28.
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers (with intro)
    0:57
  29. 29.
    The Weary Blues (with intro)
    1:47
  30. 30.
    Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
    2:03
  31. 31.
    King of the River
    3:17
  32. 32.
    The Caves of Nakedness
    6:29
  33. 33.
    I Knew a Woman
    1:47
  34. 34.
    Elegy for Jane
    1:12
  35. 35.
    Late Air
    0:33
  36. 36.
    The Fish
    2:41

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Those Winter Sundays
    0:52
  2. 2.
    The Ballad of Orange and Grape
    2:46
  3. 3.
    To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century
    1:02
  4. 4.
    #23 (The Lay of Ike)
    1:11
  5. 5.
    #36 (The High Ones Die...)
    1:28
  6. 6.
    The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...
    0:23
  7. 7.
    This Is the Solution, to Be Happy With Slaughter...
    0:19
  8. 8.
    Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
    0:38
  9. 9.
    I Killed a Fly...
    0:29
  10. 10.
    What About Dying?...
    0:52
  11. 11.
    Passing Remark
    0:48
  12. 12.
    Serving With Gideon
    1:17
  13. 13.
    And Death Shall Have No Dominium
    1:44
  14. 14.
    The Tombstone Told When She Died
    1:52
  15. 15.
    The Mother
    2:34
  16. 16.
    We Real Cool
    1:36
  17. 17.
    Skunk Hour
    2:25
  18. 18.
    Crossing Over
    2:17
  19. 19.
    See It Was Like This When...
    0:39
  20. 20.
    Underwear
    3:34
  21. 21.
    The Secret of My Endurance
    2:16
  22. 22.
    Ray
    2:44
  23. 23.
    Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
    1:54
  24. 24.
    American Haikus
    6:08
  25. 25.
    Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries
    3:45
  26. 26.
    Monet Refuses the Operation
    2:28
  27. 27.
    Woodchucks
    1:57
  28. 28.
    America
    8:47
  29. 29.
    Still
    2:40
  30. 30.
    My Philosophy of Life
    4:08
  31. 31.
    After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
    1:31
  32. 32.
    Last Gods
    2:03
  33. 33.
    A Blessing
    1:49
  34. 34.
    All My Pretty Ones
    3:26
  35. 35.
    For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
    3:06

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Even in Paris (excerpt)
    6:29
  2. 2.
    Diving Into the Wreck
    4:03
  3. 3.
    Lovesong
    2:12
  4. 4.
    Omeros (excerpt)
    3:02
  5. 5.
    The Song of the Taste
    0:59
  6. 6.
    Why I Take Good Care of My MacIntosh Computer
    1:30
  7. 7.
    The Idea of Ancestry
    3:10
  8. 8.
    Daddy
    3:41
  9. 9.
    The Greatest Poem in the World
    1:20
  10. 10.
    An Oddly Lovely Day Alone
    2:10
  11. 11.
    Bang, Bang Outishly
    1:32
  12. 12.
    Rhythim Blues
    0:24
  13. 13.
    Shazam Doowah
    0:51
  14. 14.
    Dahomey
    2:10
  15. 15.
    Right to Life
    4:10
  16. 16.
    The Poem
    2:31
  17. 17.
    Zimmer Imagines Heaven
    1:59
  18. 18.
    Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty
    0:40
  19. 19.
    I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
    6:43
  20. 20.
    We Were So Poor...
    0:30
  21. 21.
    I Was Stolen by the Gypsies...
    0:36
  22. 22.
    Everybody Knows the Story...
    0:43
  23. 23.
    Death of a Naturalist
    2:06
  24. 24.
    Lester Leaps In
    1:09
  25. 25.
    A Dance for Militant Dilettantes
    1:29
  26. 26.
    Fire
    4:08
  27. 27.
    Odysseus to Telemachus
    1:40
  28. 28.
    Sometimes It's Better to Laugh 'Honest Injun'
    2:55
  29. 29.
    Ode to My Shoes
    1:49

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    Wonder
    1:38
  2. 2.
    The Lost Pilot
    1:56
  3. 3.
    Puerto Rican Obituary (excerpt)
    5:34
  4. 4.
    Uh Oh Plutonium
    3:12
  5. 5.
    The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer
    1:30
  6. 6.
    The Sweat Lodge
    1:11
  7. 7.
    Facing It
    1:10
  8. 8.
    Logan Heights and the World (with Mark Daterman, Guitar)
    4:36
  9. 9.
    The Colonel
    2:45
  10. 10.
    The History of Armenia
    3:37
  11. 11.
    Grace
    4:28
  12. 12.
    Parsley
    4:13
  13. 13.
    The Long Meadow
    4:12
  14. 14.
    The Floral Apron
    1:25
  15. 15.
    Raisin Eyes
    1:43
  16. 16.
    The Concrete River
    3:35
  17. 17.
    My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
    2:29
  18. 18.
    Two Standards
    2:17
  19. 19.
    I Saw You Walking
    1:42
  20. 20.
    The Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre
    1:17
  21. 21.
    After the Gig: Mick Jagger
    1:10
  22. 22.
    [Morning Broke on My Cabin Inverted, Tempest in My Forehead]
    3:47
  23. 23.
    Eleven More Days
    4:52
  24. 24.
    Simon Peter
    2:09
  25. 25.
    Fragments of the Forgotten War
    3:46
  26. 26.
    Lucky Criminals
    2:01
  27. 27.
    The Slaughter
    2:18
  28. 28.
    Scab
    3:14

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