British Library: NSACD 63--NSACD 65 (on container spine: NSACD 63-65) Compact discs. Program notes by Sir Andrew Motion ([20] p.) inserted in container. Some poems preceded by introductory remarks. Read by the authors. Recordings of BBC Radio broadcasts made between 1935 and 1972; includes previously unreleased recordings.
Contents:
Epistrophe (Amiri Baraka) After apple-picking ; Mending wall ; The star-splitter (Robert Frost) -- Credences of summer (Wallace Stevens) -- Spring and all I ; This is just to say ; The yachts ; Picture of a nude in a machine shop (William Carlos Williams) -- Canto I ; Canto LI ; Canto XLV (Ezra Pound) -- Shane O'Neill's cairn ; The low sky ; Inscription for a gravestone ; The bed by the window ; The Coast-Road ; Oh lovely rock (Robinson Jeffers) -- Four preludes ; The journey of the Magi ; The waste land. 1, The burial of the dead (T.S. Eliot) -- Gabriel de Ford ; Morning song of Senlin ; Blues for Ruby Matrix I (Conrad Aiken) -- American letter (Archibald MacLeish) -- She being Brand ; Next to of course God America I ; Memorabilia ; Of all the blessings which to man ; Anyone lived in a pretty how town ; Thanksgiving (1956) (E.E. Cummings) -- One-way ticket ; The Negro speaks of rivers ; Puzzled ; Trumpet player ; Ballad of the gypsy (Langston Hughes) -- The private dining room ; Peekaboo, I almost see you (Ogden Nash) -- The heron ; Big wind ; The waking (Theodore Roethke) -- A quilt-pattern (Randall Jarrell) -- Dream song 1; Dream song 5 ; Dream song 27 ; Dream song 17 ; Dream song 16 (John Berryman) -- We real cool (second reading) ; We real cool (second reading) ; Riot ; A man of the middle class (Gwendolyn Brooks) -- For the Union dead ; Water ; The flaw (Robert Lowell) -- My mother would be a falconress (Robert Duncan) -- I am waiting (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) -- Fire station ; The tragedy of the leaves (Charles Bukowski) -- First party at Ken Kesey's with Hells Angels ; Kral Majales (Allen Ginsberg) -- Farm implements and rutabagas in a landscape ; Variations, calypso and fugue on a theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (John Ashbery) -- The addict ; Letter written on a ferry while crossing Long Island Sound (Anne Sexton) -- In the evening ; I dream I'm the death of Orpheus ; Mother-in-law ; North American time (VI-IX) (Adrienne Rich) -- The mutation of the spirit (Gregory Corso) -- Candles ; Berck-Plage (Sylvia Plath) -- A poem some people will have to understand ; Epistrophe (Amiri Baraka)
Summary:
Historical recordings of American poets reading their own poetry.
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