3 audio discs (3.5 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches+ 1 booklet digital optical 1.4 m. per second stereo Digital recording audio file CD audio
Notes:
Program notes included Original copyrights 1939-1990 Compact discs Read by the poets
Contents:
CD 1 : The song of the old mother ; The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats In Memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Fern Hill ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas The dead shall be raised incorruptible / Galway Kinnell Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell The speed of darkness / Murial Rukeyser The DNA molecule / May Swenson Poem to my son / Robert Graves Eighth Air Force / Randall Jarrell To my God in His sickness / Philip Levine Epistle to be left in the earth / Archibald MacLeish The last one / W.S. Merwin Divorce, thy name is woman ; Little girl, my string bean, my lovely woman / Anne Sexton The windy city ; Fog / Carl Sandburg CD 2 : The seafarer / William Carlos Williams darling! because my blood can sing ; if everything that happens can't be done / E.E. Cummings Nature Morte / Joseph Brodsky The road not taken ; After apple-picking / Robert Frost Omeros, Book 1, Chapter 1 / Derek Walcott What are years / Marianne Moore Seascape / Stephen Spender Skunk Hour / Robert Lowell Tetélstai / Conrad Aiken If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur The thin people / Sylvia Plath Sirocco ; American portrait: old style / Robert Penn Warren CD 3 : Arte Poetica / Pablo Neruda Old lovers at the Ballet / May Sarton The groundhog / Richard Eberhart Litany for dictatorships / Stephen Vincent Benét White mane / James Agee Moeurs Contemporaines / Ezra Pound The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens The animals in That Country / Margaret Atwood The Wasteland / T.S. Eliot