For a Limited Time: Get all three Anthologies from the Academy of American Poets' Audio Archive for the reduced price of $30. Over 60 poems from the premier poets of the last half-century, from John Ashbery and W. H. Auden to James Wright and C. K. Williams. Each poem was carefully selected from the Poetry Audio Archive catalog, and many include the wonderful introductions their authors gave.
Track Lists:
Volume One:
- Li-Young Lee (b 1957): Nothing But Paradise, 1988
- Rita Dove (b. 1952): The Other Side of the House, 1988
- Carolyn Forché (b. 1950): Introduction to "The Island"
- Carolyn Forché: The Island, 1978
- Louise Glück (b. 1943): Matins, 1992
- Lucille Clifton (b. 1936): what the mirror said, 1983
- Charles Wright (b. 1935): Introduction to It’s Turtles All the Way Down
- Charles Wright: It’s Turtles All the Way Down, 1997
- Kamau Braithwaite (b. 1930): from The Rwanda Poems, 1994
- Derek Walcott (b. 1930): Parang, 1964
- Adrienne Rich (b. 1929): For an Anniversary, 1997
- Philip Levine (b. 1928): Introduction to "My Father With Cigarette Twelve Years Before the Nazis Could Break His Heart," 1991
- Philip Levine: My Father With Cigarette Twelve Years Before the Nazis Could Break His Heart
- James Wright (1927–1980): How Spring Arrives, 1978
- John Ashbery (b. 1927): Getting Back In, 1994
- Robert Creeley (b. 1926): The Epic Expands, 1964
- Denise Levertov (1923–1997): The Turning, 1964
- Richard Wilbur (b. 1921): The Writer, 1989
- Amy Clampitt (1920–1994): Introduction to "The Kingfisher"
- Amy Clampitt: The Kingfisher, 1987
- Robert Lowell (1917–1977): The Public Garden, 1963
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000): Introduction to "We Real Cool"
- Gwendolyn Brooks: We Real Cool, 1983
- John Berryman: (1914–1972) Introduction to The Dream Songs
- John Berryman: Dream Song #1, 1963
- W.H. Auden (1907–1973): The Sabbath, 1964
- Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006): The Layers, 1991
Volume Two:
- Rosanna Warren (b. 1953): The Cormorant, 1988
- Heather McHugh (b. 1948): What He Thought, 1992
- Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947): My Father’s Love Letters, 1993
- James Tate (b. 1943): Dream On, 1996
- Sharon Olds(b. 1942): Last Words, 1993
- Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942): Cleis, 1992
- Linda Gregg (b. 1942): Chosen by the Lion, 1991
- Joseph Brodsky (1940 –1996): Lullaby of Cape Cod, Part I (English translation ready by Mark Strand, Russian original read by Brodsky), 1980
- Margaret Atwood (b. 1939): From an Italian Postcard Factory, 1978
- June Jordan (1936 – 2002): Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters, 1992
- Mark Strand (b. 1934): From a Litany, 1978
- Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992): Harriet, 1977
- W. S. Merwin (b. 1927): The Child, 1966
- James Merrill (1926 – 1995): The Smile, 1992
- Maxine Kumin (b. 1925): The Hermit Wakes to Bird Sounds, 1979
- Kenneth Koch (1925 – 2002): One Train May Hide Another, 1994
- Mona Van Duyn (1921 – 2004 ): Endings, 1991
- William Stafford (1914 – 1993): A Walk in the Country, 1970
- Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980): The Broken Dark, 1976
- May Swenson (1913 – 1989): I Look at My Hand, 1985
- Czeslaw Milosz (1911 – 2004): Counsels, 1974
- George Oppen (1908 – 1984): A Narrative, 1964
Volume Three:
- C.K. Williams (b. 1936): My Mother’s Lips
- John Hollander (b. 1292): The Angler’s Story
- Donald Hall (b. 1929): Mount Kearsarge
- Robert Duncan (1918 – 1988): My Mother Would Be a Falconress
- Randall Jarrell (1914 – 1965): A Well-to-Do Invalid
- Robert Graves (1895 – 1985): A Slice of Wedding Cake
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000): when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
- Robert Hass (b. 1941): Privilege of Being
- Galway Kinnell (b. 1927): After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
- Robert Penn Warren (1905 – 1989): Natural History
- Howard Nemerov (1920 – 1991): The War in the Air
- Louise Glück (b. 1943): Witchgrass
- Robert Pinsky (b. 1940): Shirt
- Anthony Hecht (1923 – 2004): Terms
- Donald Justice (1925 – 2004): On the Porch
- Allen Ginsberg (1926 –1997): C’mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease
- Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925): An American Beauty
- Frank Bidart (b. 1939): To the Dead
- Louise Bogan (1897 – 1970): Italian Morning
- Quincy Troupe (b. 1939): The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974
- Charles Simic (b. 1938): Ballad
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