Album · Compilation · Spokenword

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

Released 2006128 tracks · 296:09EnglishShout! Factory, Shout! Factory, Shout! Factory, Shout! Factory

Tracks

#	Title	Sung by
1.1	The Charge of the Light Brigade	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	2:20
1.2	Come Into the Garden, Maud	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	0:20
1.3	How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix (excerpt)	Robert Browning	0:58
1.4	America (excerpt)	Walt Whitman	0:38
1.5	The Lake Isle of Innisfree	William Butler Yeats	3:11
1.6	The Song of the Old Mother	William Butler Yeats	0:55
1.7	Lucinda Matlock	Edgar Lee Masters	0:58
1.8	Emily Sparks	Edgar Lee Masters	0:52
1.9	The Creation	James Weldon Johnson	4:26
1.10	If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso	Gertrude Stein	3:38
1.11	The Road Not Taken	Robert Frost	1:04
1.12	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Robert Frost	0:56
1.13	The People, Yes (excerpt)	Carl Sandburg	3:13
1.14	So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch	Wallace Stevens	2:11
1.15	The Red Wheelbarrow	William Carlos Williams	0:16
1.16	To Elsie	William Carlos Williams	1:47
1.17	Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (excerpt)	Ezra Pound	3:02
1.18	Helen in Egypt (excerpt)	Hilda Doolittle	3:35
1.19	Journey of the Magi (with Introduction)	T. S. Eliot	3:19
1.20	Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1:30
1.21	Love Is Not All	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1:15
1.22	Résumé	Dorothy Parker	0:21
1.23	The Lady's Reward	Dorothy Parker	0:57
1.24	As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood	E. E. Cummings	2:33
1.25	To Juan at the Winter Solstice	Robert Graves	2:21
1.26	John Brown's Body (excerpt)	Stephen Vincent Benét	3:51
1.27	Strong Men	Sterling Brown	3:00
1.28	The Negro Speaks of Rivers (with intro)	Langston Hughes	0:57
1.29	The Weary Blues (with intro)	Langston Hughes	1:47
1.30	Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man	Ogden Nash	2:03
1.31	King of the River	Stanley Kunitz	3:17
1.32	The Caves of Nakedness	W. H. Auden	6:29
1.33	I Knew a Woman	Theodore Roethke	1:47
1.34	Elegy for Jane	Theodore Roethke	1:12
1.35	Late Air	Elizabeth Bishop	0:33
1.36	The Fish	Elizabeth Bishop	2:41
2.1	Those Winter Sundays	Robert Hayden	0:52
2.2	The Ballad of Orange and Grape	Muriel Rukeyser	2:46
2.3	To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century	Muriel Rukeyser	1:02
2.4	#23 (The Lay of Ike)	John Berryman	1:11
2.5	#36 (The High Ones Die...)	John Berryman	1:28
2.6	The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...	David Ignatow	0:23
2.7	This Is the Solution, to Be Happy With Slaughter...	David Ignatow	0:19
2.8	Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...	David Ignatow	0:38
2.9	I Killed a Fly...	David Ignatow	0:29
2.10	What About Dying?...	David Ignatow	0:52
2.11	Passing Remark	William Stafford	0:48
2.12	Serving With Gideon	William Stafford	1:17
2.13	And Death Shall Have No Dominium	Dylan Thomas	1:44
2.14	The Tombstone Told When She Died	Dylan Thomas	1:52
2.15	The Mother	Gwendolyn Brooks	2:34
2.16	We Real Cool	Gwendolyn Brooks	1:36
2.17	Skunk Hour	Robert Lowell	2:25
2.18	Crossing Over	William Meredith	2:17
2.19	See It Was Like This When...	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	0:39
2.20	Underwear	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	3:34
2.21	The Secret of My Endurance	Charles Bukowski	2:16
2.22	Ray	Hayden Carruth	2:44
2.23	Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	Richard Wilbur	1:54
2.24	American Haikus	Jack Kerouac	6:08
2.25	Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries	Denise Levertov	3:45
2.26	Monet Refuses the Operation	Denise Levertov	2:28
2.27	Woodchucks	Maxine Kumin	1:57
2.28	America	Allen Ginsberg	8:47
2.29	Still	A.R. Ammons	2:40
2.30	My Philosophy of Life	John Ashbery	4:08
2.31	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	Galway Kinnell	1:31
2.32	Last Gods	Galway Kinnell	2:03
2.33	A Blessing	James Wright	1:49
2.34	All My Pretty Ones	Anne Sexton	3:26
2.35	For My Lover, Returning to His Wife	Anne Sexton	3:06
3.1	Even in Paris (excerpt)	Richard Howard	6:29
3.2	Diving Into the Wreck	Adrienne Rich	4:03
3.3	Lovesong	Ted Hughes	2:12
3.4	Omeros (excerpt)	Derek Walcott	3:02
3.5	The Song of the Taste	Gary Snyder	0:59
3.6	Why I Take Good Care of My MacIntosh Computer	Gary Snyder	1:30
3.7	The Idea of Ancestry	Etheridge Knight	3:10
3.8	Daddy	Sylvia Plath	3:41
3.9	The Greatest Poem in the World	David Ray	1:20
3.10	An Oddly Lovely Day Alone	John Updike	2:10
3.11	Bang, Bang Outishly	Amiri Baraka	1:32
3.12	Rhythim Blues	Amiri Baraka	0:24
3.13	Shazam Doowah	Amiri Baraka	0:51
3.14	Dahomey	Audre Lorde	2:10
3.15	Right to Life	Marge Piercy	4:10
3.16	The Poem	Mark Strand	2:31
3.17	Zimmer Imagines Heaven	Paul Zimmer	1:59
3.18	Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty	Lucille Clifton	0:40
3.19	I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face	Diane Wakoski	6:43
3.20	We Were So Poor...	Charles Simic	0:30
3.21	I Was Stolen by the Gypsies...	Charles Simic	0:36
3.22	Everybody Knows the Story...	Charles Simic	0:43
3.23	Death of a Naturalist	Seamus Heaney	2:06
3.24	Lester Leaps In	Al Young	1:09
3.25	A Dance for Militant Dilettantes	Al Young	1:29
3.26	Fire	Gloria Vando	4:08
3.27	Odysseus to Telemachus	Joseph Brodsky	1:40
3.28	Sometimes It's Better to Laugh 'Honest Injun'	Simon J. Ortiz	2:55
3.29	Ode to My Shoes	Erica Jong	1:49
4.1	Wonder	Sharon Olds	1:38
4.2	The Lost Pilot	James Tate	1:56
4.3	Puerto Rican Obituary (excerpt)	Pedro Pietri	5:34
4.4	Uh Oh Plutonium	Anne Waldman	3:12
4.5	The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer	Adrian Louis	1:30
4.6	The Sweat Lodge	Adrian Louis	1:11
4.7	Facing It	Yusef Komunyakaa	1:10
4.8	Logan Heights and the World (with Mark Daterman, Guitar)	Juan Felipe Herrera	4:36
4.9	The Colonel	Carolyn Forché	2:45
4.10	The History of Armenia	Peter Balakian	3:37
4.11	Grace	Joy Harjo	4:28
4.12	Parsley	Rita Dove	4:13
4.13	The Long Meadow	Vijay Seshadri	4:12
4.14	The Floral Apron	Marilyn Chin	1:25
4.15	Raisin Eyes	Luci Tapahonso	1:43
4.16	The Concrete River	Luis Rodriguez	3:35
4.17	My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud	Li-Young Lee	2:29
4.18	Two Standards	Elise Paschen	2:17
4.19	I Saw You Walking	Deborah Garrison	1:42
4.20	The Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre	Elizabeth Alexander	1:17
4.21	After the Gig: Mick Jagger	Elizabeth Alexander	1:10
4.22	[Morning Broke on My Cabin Inverted, Tempest in My Forehead]	D. A. Powell	3:47
4.23	Eleven More Days	Carl Hancock Rux	4:52
4.24	Simon Peter	John Poch	2:09
4.25	Fragments of the Forgotten War	Suji Kwock Kim	3:46
4.26	Lucky Criminals	Kevin Prufer	2:01
4.27	The Slaughter	Kevin Young	2:18
4.28	Scab	Jonathan Lamfers	3:14

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