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Nobel Laureate Special  

Nobel Laureate Special
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For a Limited Time: Get all three CDs from Nobel laureates Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz, and Derek Walcott for the reduced price of $30.

Over 90 tracks from three of the most celebrated poets of the last half-century. The recipients of the 1980 (Milosz), 1987 (Brodsky), and 1992 (Walcott) Nobel prize for literature come together in this collection—a testament to the profound effects each of these foreign poets have had on American poetry.

Track Lists

Joseph Brodsky CD - 59 min.

1. Introduction by Mark Strand
2. The Polar Explorer
3. A Season
4. Roman Elegies III

A Part of Speech
5. [I was born and grew up in the Baltic marshland]
6. [the North buckles metal, glass it won't harm]
7. [From nowhere with love the enth of Marchember sir]
8. [A list of some observations. In a corner it's warm]
9. [I recognize this wind battering the limp grass]
10. [A navy-blue dawn in a frosted pane]
11. [You've forgotten that village lost in the rows and rows]
12. [In the little town out of which death sprawled over the classroom]
13. [As for the stars, they are always on.]
14. [Near the ocean, by candlelight. Scattered farms,]
15. [The loacön of a tree, casting the mountain weight]
16. [If anything's to be praised, it's most likely how]
17. [There is always a possibility left—to let]
18. [...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice]
19. [Not that I am losing my grip: I am just tired of summer]
20. Introduction to "Lullaby of Cape Cod"
21. Part 1 (English)
22. Part 2 (English)
23. Part 1 (Russian)
24. Part 2 (Russian)
25. Part 3 (English)
26. Part 4 (English)
27. Part 3 (Russian)
28. Part 4 (Russian)
29. Introduction to "Letters from the Ming Dynasty"
30. Letters from the Ming Dynasty (English)
31. Letters from the Ming Dynasty (Russian)

Czeslaw Milosz CD - 71 min.

1. Introduction by Michael Benedikt
2. Introduction to "A Task"
3. A Task
4. Introduction to "Visitor"
5. Visitor
6. Magpiety
7. from Sentences
8. Introduction to "To Raja Rao"
9. To Raja Rao
10. Dithyramb
11. Dithyramb (Polish)
12. Outskirts (from Voices of Poor People)
13. Introduction to "A Song on the End of the World"
14. A Song on the End of the World
15. A Song on the End of the World (Polish)
16. Throughout Our Lands (section 3)
17. Bobo’s Metamorphosis (section 7)
18. Bobo’s Metamorphosis (section 8)
19. Oeconomia Divina
20. On Angels
21. Whiteness
22. And the City Stood In Its Brightness
23. Should, Should Not
24. Your Voice
25. Introduction to "Ars Poetica?"
26. Ars Poetica?
27. Introduction to "Throughout Our Lands"
28. Throughout Our Lands (section 6)
29. Introduction to "I Sleep A Lot"
30. I Sleep A Lot
31. With Trumpets and Zithers (section 2)
32. With Trumpets and Zithers (section 6)
33. With Trumpets and Zithers (section 7)
34. Counsels
35. June 17 (from Album of Dreams)
36. Mittelbergheim

Derek Walcott CD - 57 min.

1. Introduction by Robert Lowell
2. Introduction to "A Far Cry from Africa"
3. A Far Cry from Africa
4. Introduction to "Ruins of a Great House"
5. Ruins of a Great House
6. Introduction to "Tales of the Islands"
7. Chapter I
8. Chapter II
9. Chapter III
10. Introduction to "Chapter VI"
11. Chapter VI
12. Introduction to "Chapter IX"
13. Chapter IX
14. Introduction to Parang
15. Parang
16. A Lesson for This Sunday
17. Introduction to "A Sea-Chantey"
18. A Sea-Chantey
19. Introduction to "Origins"
20. I
21. II
22. III
23. IV
24. V
25. VI
26. VII
27. Introduction to "Castaway"
28. Castaway
29. Tarpon
30. The Glory Trumpeter




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