American poets.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, author, performer.

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963, author, performer.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955, author, performer.

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, author, performer.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972, author, performer.

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962, author, performer.

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965, author, performer.

Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973, author, performer.

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982, author, performer.

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962, author, performer.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author, performer.

Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971, author, performer.

Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963, author, performer.

Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965, author, performer.

Berryman, John, 1914-1972, author, performer.

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, author, performer.

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977, author, performer.

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988, author, performer.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, author, performer.

Bukowski, Charles, author, performer.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, author, performer.

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017, author, performer.

Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974, author, performer.

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, author, performer.

Corso, Gregory, author, performer.

Plath, Sylvia, author, performer.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014, author, performer.

Contributor:

BBC Radio, producer, distributor.

British Library. National Sound Archive, producer.

British Broadcasting Corporation, producer, distributor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Spoken word (British Broadcasting Corporation)

The spoken word

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Audiobooks.

Literary readings.

Live sound recordings.

Sound recordings.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

3 audio discs (3 hr., 29 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20] pages ; 14 cm).

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

London : British Library : BBC, [2010]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Summary:

The Spoken Word series highlights the speeches, readings, and broadcasts delivered by notable literary minds. Here, several acclaimed American poets are featured.

Contents:

A valentine to Sherwood Anderson (Gertrude Stein)

After apple-picking ; Mending wall ; The star-splitter (Robert Frost)

Credences of summer (Wallace Stevens)

Spring and all I ; This is just to say ; The yachts ; Picture of a nude in a machine shop (William Carlos Williams)

Canto I ; Canto LI ; Canto XLV (Ezra Pound)

Shane O'Neill's cairn ; The low sky ; Inscription for a gravestone ; The bed by the window ; The Coast-Road ; Oh lovely rock (Robinson Jeffers)

Four preludes ; The journey of the Magi ; The waste land. 1, The burial of the dead (T.S. Eliot)

Gabriel de Ford ; Morning song of Senlin ; Blues for Ruby Matrix I (Conrad Aiken)

American letter (Archibald MacLeish)

She being Brand ; Next to of course God America I ; Memorabilia ; Of all the blessings which to man ; Anyone lived in a pretty how town ; Thanksgiving (1956) (E.E. Cummings)

One-way ticket ; The Negro speaks of rivers ; Puzzled ; Trumpet player ; Ballad of the gypsy (Langston Hughes)

The private dining room ; Peekaboo, I almost see you (Ogden Nash)

The heron ; Big wind ; The waking (Theodore Roethke)

A quilt-pattern (Randall Jarrell)

Dream song 1; Dream song 5 ; Dream song 27 ; Dream song 17 ; Dream song 16 (John Berryman)

We real cool (first reading) ; We real cool (second reading) ; Riot ; A man of the middle class (Gwendolyn Brooks)

For the Union dead ; Water ; The flaw (Robert Lowell)

My mother would be a falconress (Robert Duncan)

I am waiting (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)

Fire station ; The tragedy of the leaves (Charles Bukowski)

First party at Ken Kesey's with Hells Angels ; Kral Majales (Allen Ginsberg)

Farm implements and rutabagas in a landscape ; Variations, calypso and fugue on a theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (John Ashbery)

The addict ; Letter written on a ferry while crossing Long Island Sound (Anne Sexton)

In the evening ; I dream I'm the death of Orpheus ; Mother-in-law ; North American time (VI-IX) (Adrienne Rich)

The mutation of the spirit (Gregory Corso)

Candles ; Berck-Plage (Sylvia Plath)

A poem some people will have to understand ; Epistrophe (Amiri Baraka).

Participant:

Read by the authors.

Credits:

Produced by Richard Fairman.

Notes:

British Library: NSACD 63--NSACD 65 (on container spine: NSACD 63-65).

BBC Radio broadcasts of poetry readings.

Recorded between 1935 and Aug. 21, 1972.

Includes previously unreleased recordings.

Compact discs.

Accompanying booklet contains program notes by Sir Andrew Motion.

Some poems preceded by introductory remarks.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9780712351065

071235106X

OCLC:

688557151

Publisher Number:

NSACD 63-65 British Library

NSACD 63 British Library

NSACD 64 British Library

NSACD 65 British Library