Paul Muldoon & Les Murray CD

1996. Introduced by Rosanna Warren.

Here is a reading by the Irish poet Paul Muldoon and Australian poet Les Murray, whose gifts of language, wit and storytelling have brought them to the forefront of American poetry.

Listeners to this recording will enjoy their unique and distinctive styles as well as their adept and inventive use of language. In this reading, both poets also pay tribute to the late Russian poet, Joseph Brodsky, who was scheduled to read that evening. Each poet reads from a broad and representative selection of his own work.

Length: 76 min. (2 discs)

Track List

Disc 1: Paul Muldoon

1. Introduction by Rosanna Warren
2. Symposium
3. Horses
4. Introduction to "The Butterfly"
5. The Butterfly (by Joseph Brodsky)
6. Introduction to "Burma"
7. Burma
8. Cuba
9. Anseo
10. Introduction to "Lag"
11. Lag
12. A Polar Explorer (by Joseph Brodsky)
13. Long Bones
14. Introduction to "The Throwback"
15. The Throwback
16. Introduction to "The Hug"
17. The Hug

Disc 2: Les Murray

1. Introduction by Rosanna Warren
2. Introduction to "Mollusk"
3. Mollusk
4. Bat's Ultrasound
5. The Cows on Killing Day
6. Introduction to "On the Death of Zhukov"
7. On the Death of Zhukov (by Joseph Brodsky)
8. Introduction to "The Smell of Coal Smoke"
9. The Smell of Coal Smoke
10. Letters to the Winner
11. The Emerald Dove
12. Rock Music
13. Corniche
14. Memories of the Height-to-Weight Ratio
15. It Allows a Portrait in Line-Scan at Fifteen
16. The Year of the Kiln Portraits
17. Introduction to "The Last Hellos"
18. The Last Hellos
19. Introduction to "Cotton Flannelette"
20. Cotton Flannelette
21. One Kneeling, One Looking Down