Robert Graves CD

1966. Introduced by Brian O'Doherty.

Recovering from surgery, Graves travelled a long way from the village of Dejä¡ on the coast of Mallorca to make a winter reading tour of the United States. He offered his New York audience for this reading a representation of his poems covering a span of more than 50 years.

His listeners were--and will be--charmed by the poet's witty anecdotal asides and the epigrammatic tidiness for which his poems are well known. Among the more than forty poems on the recording is "To Juan at the Winter Solstice." Length: 67 min.

Track List:

1. Introduction by Brian O’Doherty
2. Introduction to "The Troll’s Nosegay"
3. The Troll’s Nosegay
4. Warning to Children
5. The Castle
6. Epilogue to "The Castle"
7. Nobody
8. Vanity
9. It Was All Very Tidy
10. Introduction to "The Legs"
11. The Legs
12. Flying Crooked
13. Epilogue to "Flying Crooked"
14. To Bring the Dead to Life
15. A Jealous Man
16. With Her Lips Only
17. On Portents
18. Lollocks
19. To Juan at the Winter Solstice
20. The Persian Version
21. Beauty in Trouble
22. Counting the Beats
23. Cat-Goddesses
24. The Blue-Fly
25. A Slice of Wedding Cake
26. Turn of the Moon
27. Lion Lover
28. In Her Praise
29. Beware Madam
30. Arrears of Moonlight
31. Lure of Murder
32. Ecstasy of Chaos
33. Bizarre First, By Natural Miracles
34. Past Nine Metaphors Beyond Birds
35. Introduction to "Astymelusa"
36. Astymelusa (Alcman)
37. The Peng That Was A K'un (Lao Tse)
38. Like Owls
39. Prison Walls
40. Keep Love in Perspective
41. Twins
42. Bower-Bird
43. The Utter Rim
44. All Except Hannibal
45. I’d Die for You
46. Loving True and Flying Blind