Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (from Sourcebooks, Inc.)

Poetry Speaks presents the most significant poetry from 42 of the most influential writers in modern poetry - from Lord Tennyson to Sylvia Plath - through both text and audio CD. Encouraging students to both read the poems (in the text) and listen to the authors themselves reading many of their poems (on the free audio CD), Poetry Speaks includes the poetry from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Gwendolyn Brooks, among others.

Table of Contents:
1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Anthony Hecht on Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses "The Bugle Song" The Charge of the Light Brigade Tithonus Crossing the Bar 2. Robert Browning Edward Hirsch on Robert Browning My Last Duchess Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Meeting at Night How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 3. Walt Whitman Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman from Song of Myself Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Bivouac on a Mountain Side The Last Invocation America 4. W.B. Yeats Seamus Heaney on William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree Adam's Curse The Second Coming Among School Children Sailing to Byzantium Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 5. Gertrude Stein C.D. Wright on Gertrude Stein Christian Berard She Bowed to Her Brother If I Told Him 6. Robert Frost Richard Wilbur on Robert Frost The Oven Bird The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Nothing Gold Can Stay To Earthward The Silken Tent Come In 7. Carl Sandburg Rosellen Brown on Carl Sandburg Chicago Fog Grass Cool Tombs 107 from The People, Yes 8. Wallace Stevens Mark Strand on Wallace Stevens Fabliau of Florida Bantams in Pine-Woods Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The Idea of Order at Key West So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself 9. William Carlos Williams Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams Queen-Anne's-Lace Spring and All To Elsie The Red Wheelbarrow To a Poor Old Woman A Sort of a Song 10. Ezra Pound Charles Bernstein on Ezra Pound The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Cantico del Sole In a Station of the Metro Hugh Selwyn Mauberely XLV from The Cantos 11. H.D. Rafael Campo on H.D. Garden Orchard Helen Oread from Helen in Egypt 12. Robinson Jeffers Robert Hass on Robinson Jeffers Hurt Hawks The Purse-Seine The Day Is a Poem (September 19, 1939) Oh, Lovely Rock Carmel Point 13. John Crowe Ransom John Hollander on John Crowe Ransom Captain Carpenter Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter Painted Head The Equilibrists Dead Boy 14. T.S. Eliot Agha Shahid Ali on T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock La Figlia Che Piange Journey of the Magi Burnt Norton from Four Quartets 15. Edna St. Vincent Millay Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay Recuerdo First Fig Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies 16. Dorothy Parker Susan Hahn on Dorothy Parker One Perfect Rose Resume News Item Afternoon A Pig's-Eye View of Literature The Lady's Reward 17. E.E. Cummings Brad Leithauser on E.E. Cummings in Just- love is a place may I feel said he anyone lived in a pretty how town as freedom is a breakfastfood pity this busy monster 18. Louise Bogan Richard Howard on Louise Bogan Medusa The Daemon The Sleeping Fury The Dream Song for the Last Act 19. Melvin B. Tolson Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson An Ex-Judge at the Bar Dark Sympathy Lambda 20. Laura (Riding) Jackson Forrest Gander on Laura (Riding) Jackson O Vocables of Love Death as Death Nothing So Far Take Hands 21. Langston Hughes Al Young on Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Mother to Son The Weary Blues I, Too Good Morning Harlem [2] Luck 22. Ogden Nash Billy Collins on Ogden Nash The Trouble with Women Is Men Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man I Do, I Will, I Have I Must Tell You About My Novel Laments for a Dying Language 23. W.H. Auden Dana Gioia on W.H. Auden O Where Are You Going? Funeral Blues As I Walked Out One Evening In Memory of W.B. Yeats Musee des Beaux Arts If I Could Tell You 24. Louis MacNeice Peter McDonald on Louis MacNeice Bagpipe Music Conversation Meeting Point The British Museum Reading Room Star-gazer 25. Theodore Roethke Joy Harjo on Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz The Waking I Knew a Woman The Sloth In a Dark Time 26. Elizabeth Bishop Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop The Fish The Map The Armadillo Crusoe in England One Art In the Waiting Room 27. Robert Hayden Marilyn Nelson on Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays Frederick Douglass Homage to the Empress of the Blues El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) Words in the Mourning Time 28. Muriel Rukeyser Sharon Olds on Muriel Rukeyser Night Feeding from Letter to the Front The Poem as Mask Waiting for Icarus Ballad of Orange and Grape 29. William Stafford Robert Bly on William Stafford The Star in the Hills Traveling Through the Dark Passing Remark Saint Matthew and All Report to Crazy Horse 30. Randall Jarrell Peter Sacks on Randall Jarrell 90 North The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Seele im Raum Next Day 31. John Berryman Elizabeth Spires on John Berryman The Ball Poem 4 from The Dream Songs 14 from The Dream Songs 22 from The Dream Songs "Sole Watchman" from Eleven Addresses to the Lord 32. Dylan Thomas Glyn Maxwell on Dylan Thomas And Death Shall Have No Dominion Fern Hill Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred In My Craft or Sullen Art Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 33. Robert Lowell Frank Bidart on Robert Lowell Skunk Hour Home After Three Months Away "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" For the Union Dead Epilogue 34. Gwendolyn Brooks Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks A Song in the Front Yard kitchenette building We Real Cool The Boy Died in My Alley Speech to the Young 35. Robert Duncan Michael Palmer on Robert Duncan Poetry, A Natural Thing The Structure of Rime I Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow The Sentinels 36. Phillip Larkin Mary Jo Salter on Philip Larkin Places, Loved Ones The Whitsun Weddings Wild Oats This Be the Verse The Old Fools 37. Denise Levertov Nancy Willard on Denise Levertov Come Into Animal Presence The Secret Talking to Grief A Woman Alone Her Sadness 38. Allen Ginsberg C.K. Williams on Allen Ginsberg Howl A Supermarket in California America 39. Frank O'Hara David Lehman on Frank O'Hara Why I Am Not a Painter Poem (Hate Is Only One of Many Responses) The Day Lady Died Ave Maria Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!) 40. Anne Sexton Kay Ryan on Anne Sexton The Truth the Dead Know Her Kind The Operation For My Lover, Returning to His Wife Rumpelstiltskin 41. Etheridge Knight Elizabeth Alexander on Etheridge Knight The Idea of Ancestry Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane Belly Song Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine The Violent Space 42. Sylvia Plath Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath Tulips Morning Song I Am Vertical Daddy Lady Lazarus Index About the Contributors Acknowledgments Permissions Audio Credits Photo Credits