Robert Penn Warren CD

1977. Introduced by Stanley Kunitz.

"Intricate portraits of lackadaisical Southern life (a man fishing, a boy who's lost his shoes) that move almost seamlessly into myth, giving an omnipresent air to the entire reading. Recommended." --Library Journal

The majority of these poems come from Warren's critically acclaimed Or Else. Warren received two Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry, and one for his fiction. As Kunitz points out in his introduction, "no writer of our time has been so multifaceted or myriadminded."

Length: 57 min.

Track List

1. Introduction by Stanley Kunitz
2. An Introductory Meditation
3. A Way to Love God
4. Introduction to "Midnight Outcry"
5. Midnight Outcry
6. Introduction to "Paradox"
7. Paradox
8. Introduction to "The Nature of a Mirror"
9. The Nature of a Mirror
10. Natural History
11. Blow West Wind
12. Introduction to "Rattlesnake Country"
13. 1
14. 2
15. 3
16. 4
17. 5
18. Little Boy and Lost Shoe
19. Folly on Royal Street Before the Raw Face of God
20. Introduction to "Riddle in the Garden"
21. Riddle in the Garden
22. Introduction to "Elijah on Mount Carmel"
23. Elijah on Mount Carmel