In Their Own Voices: A Century Of Recorded Poetry
By Various
Tracklist
- Volume One
- America
- The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
- The Song Of The Old Mother
- The Road Not Taken
- Birches
- The Gift Outright
- If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait Of Picasso
- So & So Reclining On Her Couch
- The Red Wheelbarrow
- To Elsie
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt)
- Bird-Witted
- Recuerdo
- Love Is Not All
- Next To Of Course God America
- Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town
- To Juan At The Winter Solstice
- The Opening Of The Battle Of Gettysburg
- The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
- Ballad Of The Gypsy
- Mulatto
- Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man
- Love Recognized
- King Of The River (Previously Unreleased)
- In Memory Of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)
- Volume Two
- I Knew A Woman
- Elegy For Jane
- Rough (My Parents Kept Me...)
- Thoughts During An Air Raid
- My Sisters, O My Sisters
- In Our Time
- Despisals
- The Ballad Of Orange And Grape
- The World Is So Difficult To Give Up... (Previously Unreleased)
- This Is The Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter... (Previously Unreleased)
- Here I Am With Mike In Hand, Shooting Down The Rapids... (Previously Unreleased)
- I Killed A Fly... (Previously Unreleased)
- What About Dying?... (Previously Unreleased)
- Scars (Previously Unreleased)
- It Is (Previously Unreleased)
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love
- Happiness
- The Old Flame
- Skunk Hour
- Epilogue
- Crossing Over (Previously Unreleased)
- See It Was Like This When...
- Underwear
- The Secret Of My Endurance
- Thanksgrieving (Previously Unreleased)
- Sonnet For Minimalists (Previously Unreleased)
- Shame
- Apology
- Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World
- American Haikus (Excerpt)
- Monet Refuses The Operation (Previously Unreleased)
- America
- Song
- After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (Previously Unreleased)
- Last Gods (Previously Unreleased)
- Volume Three
- The River Bees
- A Blessing
- The Truth The Dead Know
- All My Pretty Ones
- Phenomenal Woman
- Even In Paris (Previously Unreleased, Excerpt)
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Omeros (Previously Unreleased, Excerpt)
- The Song Of The Taste
- How Poetry Comes To Me
- Why I Take Good Care Of My MacIntosh Computer
- Daddy
- Ariel
- The Greatest Poem In The World (Previously Unreleased)
- An Oddly Lovely Day Alone
- Learning About Easter And Passover
- Bang, Bang Outishly (Previously Unreleased)
- Rhythim Blues
- Shazam Doowah (Previously Unreleased)
- The Story Of Issac
- Dahomey (Previously Unreleased)
- Putting The Good Things Away (Previously Unreleased)
- Right To Life (Previously Unreleased)
- Keeping Things Whole
- The Way It Is
- The Poem
- Zimmer Imagines Heaven (Previously Unreleased)
- Yes Lord, He Was Born... (Previously Unreleased)
- Cruelty (Previously Unreleased)
- Volume Four
- I Have Had To Learn To Live With My Face (Previously Unreleased)
- Dear John, Dear Coltrane (Previously Unreleased)
- We Were So Poor... (Previously Unreleased)
- I Was Stolen By The Gypsies... (Previously Unreleased)
- Everybody Knows The Story... (Previously Unreleased)
- Lester Leaps In (Previously Unreleased)
- For Poets (Previously Unreleased)
- A Dance For Militant Diletantes (Previously Unreleased)
- Odysseus To Telemachus
- Ode Yo My Shoes
- Prayer (Previously Unreleased)
- Translator's Son (Previously Unreleased)
- Wonder (Previously Unreleased)
- The Lost Pilot (Previously Unreleased)
- One Kiss (Previously Unreleased)
- The Tent People Of Beverly Hills (Previously Unreleased)
- Uh Oh Plutonium
- The Fine Printing On The Label Of A Bottle Of Non-Alcohol Beer (Previously Unreleased)
- The Sweat Lodge (Previously Unreleased)
- Logan Heights & The World (Previously Unreleased)
- The Colonel
- Wild Gratitude (Previously Unreleased)
- Justice For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash (Previously Unreleased)
- Tia Sophia (Previously Unreleased)
- This Is Number 26 (Previously Unreleased)
- I Am Offering You This Poem (Previously Unreleased)
- Parsley (Previously Unreleased)
- Raisin Eyes
- The Children's Undercroft (Previously Unreleased)
- The Concrete River (Previously Unreleased)
- Tia Chucha (Previously Unreleased)
- My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud (Previously Unreleased)