Rita Dove & Rosanna Warren CD

1988. Introduced by Anne Wright.

Reading selections from her Pulitzer prize-winning book Thomas and Beulah and from Grace Notes, former Poet Laureate Dove reads poems that are, as Wright indicates in her introduction, "operas of celebration, love, and loss."

Warren's poems are, according to Wright, like "paintings" that fluctuate between the feverish energy of a Turner and the precision of cubism. She reads a broad range of meticulous and elegiac poems that were later collected in Stained Glass, which received the Lamont poetry selection prize.

Length: 50 min.

Track List:

Rita Dove

1. Introduction by Anne Wright
2. Introduction to :Thomas and Beulah
3. Jiving
4. Introduction to "Summit Beach, 1921"
5. Summit Beach, 1921
6. Introduction to "Under the Viaduct, 1932"
7. Under the Viaduct, 1932
8. Introduction to "Weathering Out"
9. Weathering Out
10. Introduction to "The Stroke"
11. The Stroke
12. Introduction to "Recovery"
13. Recovery
14. Introduction to "Hully Gully"
15. Hully Gully
16. Introduction to "Flash Cards"
17. Flash Cards
18. Used
19. Introduction to "The Breathing, The Endless News"
20. The Breathing, The Endless News
21. Introduction to "The Other Side of the House"
22. The Other Side of the House
23. Introduction to "Teotihuacan"
24. Teotihuacan
25. Ars Poetica
26. Introduction to "The Afgani Nomad Coat"
27. The Afgani Nomad Coat

Rosanna Warren

28. Introduction by Anne Wright
29. Introduction to "Daily Mail"
30. Daily Mail
31. Ice
32. Sacrament
33. Introduction to "Country Music"
34. Country Music
35. Introduction to "Season Due"
36. Season Due
37. Introduction to "Jacob Burckhardt, August 8, 1897"
38. Jacob Burckhardt, August 8, 1897
39. Introduction to "Child Model"
40. Child Model
41. Introduction to "Eskimo Widow"
42. Eskimo Window
43. Eskimo Mother
44. Girl by Minoan Wall
45. The Cormorant
46. Introduction to "Tide Pickers"
47. Tide Pickers