Poetry Speaks Expanded
By Elise Paschen (Editor); Rebekah Mosby (Editor)
(Sourcebooks Mediafusion, Hardcover, 9781402210624, 384pp.)
Publication Date: October 2007
Categories: General
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Description
Hear and Read
HEAR AND READ ALL OF THESE POETS (AND MORE)
107 POEMS READ BY THE POETS THEMSELVES ON 3 AUDIO CDS
Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats,
Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes,
Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson,
Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Allen Ginsberg,
Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas,
Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, John Crowe Ransom
Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poet's words with the poet's voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
"This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"Readers and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
"Superb, accessible....A unique and essential purchase"
-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
"It is the rare combination of spoken and written words that makes Poetry Speaks one of the most comprehensive and enjoyable anthologies available."
-SALON.COM
Poetry
--For the first time ever, James Joyce reads "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake alongside the original text from the book
--T. S.Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
--Sylvia Plath's anger and raw emotion as she reads "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus"
--Jack Kerouac reading from "MacDougal Street Blues," accompanied by Steve Allen on piano
--May Swenson rehearsing "The Watch" prior to a reading
--H. D. reading a part of "Helen in Egypt" from a rare recording made shortly before her death
--Ted Hughes reading "February 17" during a BBC interview
--A never-before-published recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
--W. B. Yeats explaining his reading style and why he chooses to read that way
--Robert Frost reading "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
ESSAYS WRITTEN BY TODAY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL POETS, INCLUDING: W. S. Merwin on Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney on W. B. Yeats, Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams, Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman, Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop and Al Young on Langston Hughes
"The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years."
-QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB
"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"It speaks volumes for Poetry Speaks that by the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there were more."
-WALL STREET JOURNAL
A Book Sense Top-10 Selection
HEAR AND READ ALL OF THESE POETS (AND MORE)
107 POEMS READ BY THE POETS THEMSELVES ON 3 AUDIO CDS
Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats,
Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes,
Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson,
Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Allen Ginsberg,
Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas,
Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, John Crowe Ransom
Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poet's words with the poet's voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
"This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"Readers and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW
"Superb, accessible....A unique and essential purchase"
-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
"It is the rare combination of spoken and written words that makes Poetry Speaks one of the most comprehensive and enjoyable anthologies available."
-SALON.COM
Poetry
--For the first time ever, James Joyce reads "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake alongside the original text from the book
--T. S.Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
--Sylvia Plath's anger and raw emotion as she reads "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus"
--Jack Kerouac reading from "MacDougal Street Blues," accompanied by Steve Allen on piano
--May Swenson rehearsing "The Watch" prior to a reading
--H. D. reading a part of "Helen in Egypt" from a rare recording made shortly before her death
--Ted Hughes reading "February 17" during a BBC interview
--A never-before-published recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
--W. B. Yeats explaining his reading style and why he chooses to read that way
--Robert Frost reading "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
ESSAYS WRITTEN BY TODAY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL POETS, INCLUDING: W. S. Merwin on Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney on W. B. Yeats, Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams, Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman, Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop and Al Young on Langston Hughes
"The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years."
-QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB
"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW
"It speaks volumes for Poetry Speaks that by the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there were more."
-WALL STREET JOURNAL
A Book Sense Top-10 Selection
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