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All Three Audio Archive Anthologies  

All Three Audio Archive Anthologies
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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:

  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

Volume Two:

  1. Rosanna Warren (b. 1953): The Cormorant, 1988
  2. Heather McHugh (b. 1948): What He Thought, 1992
  3. Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947): My Father’s Love Letters, 1993
  4. James Tate (b. 1943): Dream On, 1996
  5. Sharon Olds(b. 1942): Last Words, 1993
  6. Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942): Cleis, 1992
  7. Linda Gregg (b. 1942): Chosen by the Lion, 1991
  8. Joseph Brodsky (1940 –1996): Lullaby of Cape Cod, Part I (English translation ready by Mark Strand, Russian original read by Brodsky), 1980
  9. Margaret Atwood (b. 1939): From an Italian Postcard Factory, 1978
  10. June Jordan (1936 – 2002): Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters, 1992
  11. Mark Strand (b. 1934): From a Litany, 1978
  12. Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992): Harriet, 1977
  13. W. S. Merwin (b. 1927): The Child, 1966
  14. James Merrill (1926 – 1995): The Smile, 1992
  15. Maxine Kumin (b. 1925): The Hermit Wakes to Bird Sounds, 1979
  16. Kenneth Koch (1925 – 2002): One Train May Hide Another, 1994
  17. Mona Van Duyn (1921 – 2004 ): Endings, 1991
  18. William Stafford (1914 – 1993): A Walk in the Country, 1970
  19. Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980): The Broken Dark, 1976
  20. May Swenson (1913 – 1989): I Look at My Hand, 1985
  21. Czeslaw Milosz (1911 – 2004): Counsels, 1974
  22. George Oppen (1908 – 1984): A Narrative, 1964

Volume Three:

  1. C.K. Williams (b. 1936): My Mother’s Lips
  2. John Hollander (b. 1292): The Angler’s Story
  3. Donald Hall (b. 1929): Mount Kearsarge
  4. Robert Duncan (1918 – 1988): My Mother Would Be a Falconress
  5. Randall Jarrell (1914 – 1965): A Well-to-Do Invalid
  6. Robert Graves (1895 – 1985): A Slice of Wedding Cake
  7. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000): when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
  8. Robert Hass (b. 1941): Privilege of Being
  9. Galway Kinnell (b. 1927): After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
  10. Robert Penn Warren (1905 – 1989): Natural History
  11. Howard Nemerov (1920 – 1991): The War in the Air
  12. Louise Glück (b. 1943): Witchgrass
  13. Robert Pinsky (b. 1940): Shirt
  14. Anthony Hecht (1923 – 2004): Terms
  15. Donald Justice (1925 – 2004): On the Porch
  16. Allen Ginsberg (1926 –1997): C’mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease
  17. Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925): An American Beauty
  18. Frank Bidart (b. 1939): To the Dead
  19. Louise Bogan (1897 – 1970): Italian Morning
  20. Quincy Troupe (b. 1939): The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974
  21. Charles Simic (b. 1938): Ballad
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