Frank Bidart & C.K. Williams CD

1992. Introduced by Lawrence Joseph

Here are two poets whose work intensifies when read aloud. This extraordinary reading by Frank Bidart and C. K. Williams affirms why they are, as Lawrence Joseph noted in his introduction, "two of the best and important poets of their generation."

Length: 88 min. (2 discs)

Track List:

Frank Bidart

1. Introduction by Lawrence Joseph
2. Introduction to "To the Dead"
3. To the Dead
4. Introduction to "Dark Night"
5. Dark Night

In the Western Night
6. i. The Irreparable
7. ii. In My Desk
8. iii. Two Men
9. iv. Epilogue (A Stanza from Horace)

10. Introduction to "Poem in Stanza of the Rubiyat"
11. i. Spirit
12. ii. Reading the Rubiyat
13. iii. Christmas Eve in Harvard Square

14. Introduction to "In the Ruins"
15. In the Ruins
16. Guilty of Dust
17. Introduction to "Ellen West"
18. Ellen West

C. K. Williams

1. Introduction by Lawrence Joseph
2. Introduction to "My Mother's Lips"
3. My Mother's Lips
4. Introduction to "The Gas Station"
5. The Gas Station
6. Introduction to "Some of the Forms of Jealousy"
7. Soliloquies
8. When
9. Scar
10. Introduction to A Dream in Mind
11. Room
12. You
13. To Listen
14. The Covenant
15. The Vessel
16. Harm

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