Audio Archive Anthology, Volume I

This collection of historic recordings spans 40 years of public readings sponsored by The Academy of American Poets. The recordings--poets reading their own work--range from the amusing to the haunting, and from the abstract to the quotidian. It is our hope that this assemblage of work begins to resemble in voice the breadth of contemporary American poetry.

This incredible disc contains poems by: John Ashbery, W.H. Auden, John Berryman, Kamau Braithwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amy Clampitt, Lucille Clifton, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, Carolyn Forché, Louise Glück, Stanley Kunitz, Li-Young Lee, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Charles Wright, and James Wright. Each poem was carefully selected from the Poetry Audio Archive catalog, and many include the wonderful introductions their authors gave.

Length: 47 min.

Track List:

1. Li-Young Lee (b 1957): Nothing But Paradise, 1988
2. Rita Dove (b. 1952): The Other Side of the House, 1988
3. Carolyn Forché (b. 1950): Introduction to "The Island"
4. Carolyn Forché: The Island, 1978
5. Louise Glück (b. 1943): Matins, 1992
6. Lucille Clifton (b. 1936): what the mirror said, 1983
7. Charles Wright (b. 1935): Introduction to It’s Turtles All the Way Down
8. Charles Wright: It’s Turtles All the Way Down, 1997
9. Kamau Braithwaite (b. 1930): from The Rwanda Poems, 1994
10. Derek Walcott (b. 1930): Parang, 1964
11. Adrienne Rich (b. 1929): For an Anniversary, 1997
12. Philip Levine (b. 1928): Introduction to "My Father With Cigarette Twelve Years Before the Nazis Could Break His Heart," 1991
13. Philip Levine: My Father With Cigarette Twelve Years Before the Nazis Could Break His Heart
14. James Wright (1927–1980): How Spring Arrives, 1978
15. John Ashbery (b. 1927): Getting Back In, 1994
16. Robert Creeley (b. 1926): The Epic Expands, 1964
17. Denise Levertov (1923–1997): The Turning, 1964
18. Richard Wilbur (b. 1921): The Writer, 1989
19. Amy Clampitt (1920–1994): Introduction to "The Kingfisher"
20. Amy Clampitt: The Kingfisher, 1987
21. Robert Lowell (1917–1977): The Public Garden, 1963
22. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000): Introduction to "We Real Cool"
23. Gwendolyn Brooks: We Real Cool, 1983
24. John Berryman: (1914–1972) Introduction to The Dream Songs
25. John Berryman: Dream Song #1, 1963
26. W.H. Auden (1907–1973): The Sabbath, 1964
27. Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006): The Layers, 1991

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