Various
Poetry Speaks Expanded CD-2

classical

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Intro - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) 0:33
2 Edna St. Vincent Millay - Recuerdo 1:25
3 Edna St. Vincent Millay - I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear 0:58
4 Edna St. Vincent Millay - Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody 2:31
5 Intro - Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) 0:44
6 Dorothy Parker - One Perfect Rose 0:54
7 0:21
8 Dorothy Parker - Afternoon 0:47
9 Intro - E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) 0:42
10 E.E. Cummings - anyone lived in a pretty how town 2:28
11 E.E. Cummings - as freedom is a breakfastfood 2:31
12 Intro - Robert Graves (1895-1985) 0:51
13 Robert Graves - The Castle 0:58
14 Robert Graves - To Juan at the Winter Solstice 2:17
15 Robert Graves - The Blue-Fly 1:15
16 Intro - Louise Bogan (1897-1970) 0:32
17 Louise Bogan - The Dream (rec. 1959) 1:58
18 Louise Bogan - Song for the Last Act (rec. 1959) 2:48
19 Intro - Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) 0:44
20 Melvin B. Tolson - An Ex-Judge at the Bar (rec. 1965) 3:00
21 Melvin B. Tolson - Dark Symphony (excerpt) (rec. 1965) 1:54
22 Intro - Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) 0:46
23 Laura (Riding) Jackson - Death as Death (rec. 1972) 0:58
24 Laura (Riding) Jackson - Nothing So Far (rec. 1972) 1:27
25 Intro - Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 0:48
26 Langston Hughes - The Negro Speaks of Rivers (rec. 1959) 2:25
27 Langston Hughes - Mother to Son (rec. 1959) 0:48
28 Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues (rec. 1959) 1:47
29 Langston Hughes - Harlem [2] (rec. 1959) 0:28
30 Intro - Ogden Nash (1902-1971) 0:54
31 Ogden Nash - I Do, I Will, I Have 1:26
32 Ogden Nash - I Must Tell You About My Novel 1:41
33 Intro - W.H. Auden (1907-1973) 0:36
34 W.H. Auden - In Memory of W.B. Yeats 3:56
35 1:23
36 W.H. Auden - If I Could Tell You 1:16
37 Intro - Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) 0:39
38 Louis MacNeice - Conversation (rec. 1964) 1:17
39 Louis MacNeice - Meeting Point (rec. 1964) 2:37
40 Intro - Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) 0:38
41 Theodore Roethke - My Papa's Waltz 0:54
42 Theodore Roethke - The Waking 1:33
43 Theodore Roethke - I Knew a Woman 1:44
44 Intro - Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) 0:40
45 Elizabeth Bishop - The Fish (rec. 1947) 2:32
46 Elizabeth Bishop - Crusoe in England (rec. 1974) 2:46
47 Intro - May Swenson (1913-1989) 0:37
48 May Swenson - Question 0:50
49 May Swenson - The Watch 1:50
50 Intro - Robert Hayden (1913-1980) 0:55
51 Robert Hayden - Those Winter Sundays (rec. 1968) 0:54
52 Robert Hayden - El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) (rec. 1968)... 2:56
53 Intro - Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) 0:45
54 Muriel Rukeyser - Night Feeding (rec. 1960s-70s) 1:49
55 Muriel Rukeyser - The Poem as Mask (rec. 1960s-70s) 2:46
56 Muriel Rukeyser - Waiting for Icarus (rec. 1960s-70s) 1:38
Total time 79:01