The Spoken Arts Treasury : 100 modern American poets reading their poems : Volume III

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In 1969, The Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets—an unprecedented anthology consisting of 464 poems read by their authors—was released on vinyl lp by Spoken Arts, Inc. The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies read by acclaimed narrator Katherine Kellgren.

VOLUME 3

Volume Three in The Spoken Arts Treasury includes works from the following poets: Gwendolyn Brooks, William Jay Smith, William Meredith, May Swenson, Howard Nemerov, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, Anthony Hecht, James Dickey, Louis Simpson, Denise Levertov, Philip Booth, W.D. Snodgrass, James Merrill, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsburg, David Wagoner, Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, John Ashbery, James Wright, Peter Davison, Donald Hall, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Robert Pack, John Hollander, John Updike, Sylvia Plath, Mark Strand, and Robert Kelly.

VOLUME 3

Gwendolyn Brooks - Kichenette Building
Gwendolyn Brooks - The Preacher Ruminates Behind The Sermon
Gwendolyn Brooks - Three Sonnets From "The Children Of The Poor"
Gwendolyn Brooks - The Ballad Of Rudolph Reed
Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool: The Pool Players, Seven Of The Golden Shovel
William Jay Smith - American Primitive
William Jay Smith - A Pavane For The Nursery
William Jay Smith - Morning At Amheim
William Jay Smith - Death Of A Jazz Musician
William Jay Smith - The Wooing Lady
William Jay Smith - The Lovers
William Jay Smith - Pidgin Pinch
William Jay Smith - The Closing Of The Rodeo
William Jay Smith - Cupidon
William Jay Smith - The Peacock Of Java
William Meredith - The Open Sea
William Meredith - Roots
William Meredith - For Guiliaume Apolinaire
William Meredith - My Acts
May Swenson - Fountains Of Aix
May Swenson - Poems About Time: Almanac/ A Loaf Of Time / How To Old
May Swenson - Frontispiece
May Swenson - The Key To Everything
Howard Nemerov - The Goose Fish
Howard Nemerov - The Vacuum
Howard Nemerov - Dialogue
Howard Nemerov - The Quarry
Howard Nemerov - Truth
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Thoughts To A Concerto Of Telemann
Richard Wilbur - Love Calls Uss To The Things Of This World
Richard Wilbur - Mind
Richard Wilbur - Digging For China
Richard Wilbur - For The New Railway Station In Rome
Richard Wilbur - Two Voices In A Meadow
Richard Wilbur - Museum Piece
Richard Wilbur - Looking Into History
Howard Moss - The Fall
Howard Moss - If You Can
Howard Moss - Sands
Howard Moss - Water Island
Howard Moss - The Tourists
Anthony Hecht - The Vow
Anthony Hecht - A Hill
Anthony Hecht - A Letter
Anthony Hecht - A Dover Bitch
James Dickey - The Heaven Of Animals
James Dickey - The Lifeguard
James Dickey - The Hospital Window
James Dickey - In The Mountain Tent
Louis Simpson - The Silent Generation
Louis Simpson - My Father In The Night Commanding No
Louis Simpson - There Is
Louis Simpson - The Man Who Married Magdalene
Louis Simpson - The Silent Lover
Louis Simpson - Birch
Denise Levertov - The Jacob's Ladder
Denise Levertov - A Solitude
Denise Levertov - Song For Ishtar
Denise Levertov - The Ache Of Marriage
Denise Levertov - Song For A Dark Voice
Denise Levertov - Luxury
Denise Levertov - The Tulips
Philip Booth - Maine
Philip Booth - The Anchor
Philip Booth - Sable Island
Philip Booth - The Islanders
W.D. Snodgrass - Lying Awake
W.D. Snodgrass - A Flat One
James Merrill - The Current
James Merrill - Time
James Merrill - Annie Hill's Grave
James Merrill - Watching The Dance: A) Balanchine B) Discotheque
Robert Creeley - Love Comes Quietly
Robert Creeley - For Love
Robert Creeley - Song: What Do You Want, Love...
Robert Creeley - The Finger
Allen Ginsburg - Who Be Kind To
Allen Ginsburg - Uptown, New York
David Wagoner - House Hunting
David Wagoner - Bums At Breakfast
David Wagoner - The Fruit Of The Tree
David Wagoner - The Circuit
David Wagoner - Come Before His Countenance With A Joyful Leaping
Robert Bly - The Man Whom The Sea Kept Awake
Robert Bly - Condition Of The Working Class
Robert Bly - A Busy Man Speaks
Robert Bly - Poem In Three Parts
Robert Bly - Snowfall In The Afternoon
Galway Kinnell - Another Night In The Ruins
Galway Kinnell - Vapor Trail Reflected In The Frog Pond
Galway Kinnell - The Bear
John Ashbery - Thoughts Of A Young Girl
John Ashbery - A Last World
John Ashbery - They Dream Only Of America
John Ashbery - Some Trees
James Wright - Dog In A Cornfield
James Wright - Two Horses Playing In The Orchard
James Wright - Depressed By A Book Of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward An Unused Pasture And Invite The Insets To Join Me
James Wright - From A Bus Window In Central Ohio Just Before A Thunder Storm
James Wright - Rain
James Wright - Today I Was Happy, So I Made This Poem
James Wright - Miners
Peter Davison - Artemis
Peter Davison - Not Forgotten: A) Watching Her Go B) Dream C) Reality D) Self-Defense E) Aftermath
Peter Davison - Lunch At The Coq D'Or
Peter Davison - Plausible Man
Donald Hall - Christmas Eve In Whitneyville
Donald Hall - Reclining Figure
Donald Hall - The Man In The Dead Machine
Donald Hall - The Dump
Donald Hall - Gold
Anne Sexton - Funnel
Anne Sexton - The Truth The Dead Know
Anne Sexton - The Farmer's Wife
Anne Sexton - Unknown Girl In The Maternity Ward
Adrienne Rich - Peeling Onions
Adrienne Rich - Ghost Of A Chance
Adrienne Rich - The Roof Walker
Adrienne Rich - Mourning Picture
Adrienne Rich - In The Woods
Robert Pack - The Boat
Robert Pack - Adam On His Way Home
Robert Pack - The Faithful Lover
Robert Pack - The Shooting
Robert Pack - Drowning
John Hollander - The Lady's-Maid's Song
John Hollander - Digging It Out
John Hollander - A New Leaf
John Hollander - Under Cancer
John Updike - To An Usherettte
John Updike - The Sensualist
John Updike - Febuary 22nd
John Updike - The Stunt Flyer
John Updike - Les Saints Nouveaux
John Updike - Die Neuen Heiligen
John Updike - Summer: West Side
John Updike - Time's Fool
Sylvia Plath - The Applicant
Sylvia Plath - Stop Dead
Sylvia Plath - Medusa
Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazarus
Mark Strand - Keeping Things Whole
Mark Strand - The Tunnel
Mark Strand - The Marriage
Mark Strand - The Last Bus - Rio De Janeiro
Mark Strand - My Life
Robert Kelly - Prefix To Finding The Measure
Robert Kelly - Sonnet 7
Robert Kelly - Poem For Easter
Robert Kelly - The Alchemist