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Various Artists - In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry album download

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Various Artists

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In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry

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Spoken Word,Beat Poetry,Modern Creative,Poetry

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1990 - 1993

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04:02:31

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1341 mb

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In Their Own Voices is a treasure for poetry and spoken word devotees. Track Listing - Disc 1. Sample.

How Poetry Comes To Me. 3-11.

Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) Audio CD. Various Artists. This four CD set, including book contains recorded poems by some of the following poets: Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Graves, Steven Vincent Benet, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Stanley Kuntz, .

Artists - R. Richard Wilbur Lyrics. In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry Album. Richard Wilbur - In Their Own Voices: A Century Of Recorded Poetry Album. Artist: Richard Wilbur.

Rosy said: This isn't an entity in itself, of course . I have always loved poetry for the sound as well as for the meaning, and some of these poets, in my humble opinion, do not do justice to their works. Do not go gentle into that goodnight" made me want to yell "Stop" and explain to Mr. Thomas that the poem had plenty of beauty in itself-it is smothered by his overwrought declaiming.

June 28, 1996 at 04:00 AM EDT. This impressive four-CD set of 79 poets reading their work begins with an 1890 recording of Walt Whitman’s America, the first of many pieces forming an enchanting audio-mosaic. A labor of love, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry suffers only in its omissions (. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop). Considered individually or as a whole, these 122 poems poignantly remind us that a poet, as . A. In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry.

In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry. The Song of the Taste :58. How Poetry Comes to Me :17. Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer 1:29. In Their Own Voices is a treasure for poetry and spoken word devotees. Influenced By Various Artists.

Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006 released: 2006. Poetry Speaks to Children released: 2005. The Caedmon Poetry Collection released: 2002. In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry released: 1996. No I won’t forget this in a week. And I will sing the words that I can’t speak. When you’re standing right in front of me.

More than four hours of these poets reading their own works, bringing their own words to life, giving them the inflection and meter they intended. The accompanying booklet contains essays on poetry by Erica Jong, Al Young and Rebekah Presson

Track List - Disc 1

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	America	Walt Whitman	0:37
2	The Lake Isle of Innisfree	William Butler Yeats	1:09
3	The Song of the Old Mother	William Butler Yeats	0:51
4	The Road Not Taken	Robert Frost	1:03
5	Birches	Robert Frost	3:03
6	If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso	Gertrude Stein	0:53
7	So and So Reclining on Her Couch	Wallace Stevens	3:37
8	The Red Wheelbarrow	William Carlos Williams	2:10
9	To Elsie	William Carlos Williams	0:15
10	Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	Ezra Pound	2:32
11	Bird-Witted	Marianne Moore	4:57
12	Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2:15
13	Next of Course God America	e.e. cummings	1:26
14	Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town	e.e. cummings	1:11
15	To Juan at the Winter Solstice	Robert Graves	0:59
16	The Openings of the Battle of Gettysburg	Steven Vincent Benét	3:39
17	The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes	Langston Hughes	2:21
18	Ballad of the Gypsy	Langston Hughes	3:50
19	Mulatto	Langston Hughes	0:49
20	Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man	Ogden Nash	0:52
21	Love Recognized	Robert Penn Warren	1:37
22	King of the River	Stanley Kunitz	2:03
23	In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Pt. 1	Wystan Hugh Auden	1:14

Track List - Disc 2

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	I Knew a Woman	Theodore Roethke	1:46
2	Elegy for Jane	Theodore Roethke	1:13
3	Rough	Stephen Spender	0:53
4	Thoughts During an Air Raid	Stephen Spender	1:32
5	My Sisters, O My Sisters	May Sarton	2:57
6	In Our Time	Muriel Rukeyser	0:21
7	Despisals	Muriel Rukeyser	1:34
8	The Ballad of Orange and Grape	Muriel Rukeyser	2:44
9	The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...	David Ignatow	0:23
10	This Is the Solution, to Be Happy with Slaughter...	David Ignatow	0:19
11	Here I Am with Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...	David Ignatow	0:38
12	I Killed a Fly...	David Ignatow	0:29
13	What About Dying?...	David Ignatow	0:50
14	Scars	William Stafford	0:44
15	It Is	William Stafford	0:40
16	Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	Dylan Thomas	1:37
17	If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love	Dylan Thomas	3:17
18	Happiness	John Ciardi	1:48
19	The Old Flame	Robert Lowell	1:59
20	Skunk Hour	Robert Lowell	2:25
21	Epilogue	Robert Lowell	1:25
22	Crossing Over	William Meredith	2:16
23	See It Was Like This When...	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	0:41
24	Underwear	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	3:32
25	The Secret of My Endurance	Charles Bukowski	2:16
26	Thanksgrieving	Howard Nemerov	1:28
27	Sonnet for Minimalists	Mona Vanduyn	0:43
28	Shame	Richard Wilbur	1:48
29	Apology	Richard Wilbur	0:36
30	Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	Richard Wilbur	1:54
31	American Haikus Jack Kerouac	Al Cohn / Jack Kerouac / Zoot Sims	6:08
32	Monet Refuses the Operation	Lisel Mueller	2:28
33	America Allen Ginsberg	Allen Ginsberg	8:45
34	Song	John Ashbery	1:27
35	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	Galway Kinnell	1:28
36	Last Gods	Galway Kinnell	2:00

Track List - Disc 3

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	The River Bees	William Stanley Merwin	1:18
2	A Blessing	James Wright	1:49
3	The Truth the Dead Know	Anne Sexton	1:41
4	All My Pretty Ones	Anne Sexton	3:27
5	Phenomenal Woman	Maya Angelou	2:06
6	Even in Paris	Richard Howard	6:28
7	Diving into the Woods	Adrienne Rich	4:02
8	Omeros	Derek Walcott	3:01
9	The Song of the Taste	Gary Snyder	0:58
10	How Poetry Comes to Me	Gary Snyder	0:17
11	Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer	Gary Snyder	1:29
12	Daddy	Sylvia Plath	3:41
13	Ariel	Sylvia Plath	1:02
14	The Greatest Poem in the World	David Ray	1:20
15	An Oddly Lovely Day Alone	John Updike	2:09
16	Learning About Easter and Passover	Dan Jaffe	2:09
17	Bang, Bang Outishly Amiri Baraka	Amiri Baraka	1:28
18	Rhythim Blues Amiri Baraka	Amiri Baraka	0:23
19	Shazam Doowah Amiri Baraka	Amiri Baraka	0:50
20	The Story of Issac Leonard Cohen	Leonard Cohen	3:36
21	Dahomey Audre Lorde	Audre Lorde	2:08
22	Putting the Good Things Away	Marge Piercy	3:02
23	Right to Life	Marge Piercy	4:08
24	Keeping Things Whole	Mark Strand	0:29
25	The Way It Is	Mark Strand	3:03
26	The Poem	Mark Strand	2:30
27	Zimmer Imagines Heaven	Paul Zimmer	1:58
28	Yes Lord, He Was Born...	Lucille Clifton	1:46
29	Cruelty	Lucille Clifton	0:37

Track List - Disc 4

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	I Have Had to Learn to Live with My Face	Diane Wakoski	6:42
2	Dear John, Dear Coltrane Michael S. Harper	Michael S. Harper	2:33
3	We Were So Poor...	Charles Simic	0:30
4	I Was Stolen by the Gypsies...	Charles Simic	0:35
5	Everybody Knows the Story	Charles Simic	0:40
6	Lester Leaps In	Al Young	1:07
7	For Poets	Al Young	0:41
8	A Dance for Militant Dilettantes Al Young	Al Young	1:29
9	Odysseus to Telemachsu	Joseph Brodsky	1:40
10	Ode to My Shoes	Erica Jong	1:52
11	Prayer	Joseph Bruchac	0:30
12	Translator's Son	Joseph Bruchac	0:43
13	Wonder	Sharon Olds	1:37
14	The Lost Pilot	James Tate	1:55
15	One Kiss	Tess Gallagher	1:54
16	The Tent People of Beverly Hills	James Ragan	2:49
17	Uh Oh Plutonium	Anne Waldman	3:13
18	The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer	Adrian Louis	1:29
19	The Sweat Lodge	Adrian Louis	1:08
20	Logan Heights and the World	Juan Felipe Herrera	4:34
21	The Colonel	Carolyn Forché	2:43
22	Wild Gratitude	Edward Hirsch	2:55
23	For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash	Joy Harjo	4:14
24	Tia Sophia	Carmen Tafolla	3:10
25	This Is Number 26	Jimmy Baca	1:24
26	I Am Offering You This Poem	Jimmy Baca	1:21
27	Parsley	Rita Dove	4:14
28	Raisin Eyes	Luci Tapahonso	1:42
29	The Children's Undercroft	Donald Revell	1:58
30	The Concrete River	Dr. Luis Rodriguez	3:33
31	Tia Chucha	Dr. Luis Rodriguez	1:48
32	My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud	Li-Young Lee	2:26

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