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

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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 2

Volume Two in The Spoken Arts Treasury includes works from the following poets: Yvor Winters, Oscar Williams, Langston Hughes, Theodore Spencer, Ogden Nash, Countee Cullen, Merrill Moore, John Holmes, Richard Eberhart, Robert Penn Warren, Stanley Kunitz, Kenneth Rexroth, W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Paul Engle, Winfield Townley Scott, Elizabeth Bishop, J.V. Cunningham, Kenneth Patchen, Brother Antoninus, Hy Sobiloff, Karl Shapiro, John Frederick Nims, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukeyser, Barbara Howes, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Owen Dodson, Jean Garrigue, Ruth Stone, Hollis Summers, John Ciardi, Peter Viereck, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Robert Lowell.

VOLUME 2

Ivor Winters - Before Disaster
Ivor Winters - Orpheus
Ivor Winters - John Sutter
Ivor Winters - Time And The Garden
Ivor Winters - A Summer Commentary
Ivor Winters - To The Moon
Oscar Williams - I Sing An Old Song
Oscar Williams - The Man Coming Toward You
Oscar Williams - The Children's Playground
Oscar Williams - Why The Sea Is Salt
Langston Hughes - Still Here
Langston Hughes - The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
Langston Hughes - Negro
Langston Hughes - Poem
Langston Hughes - Merry-Go-Round
Langston Hughes - Cultural Exchange
Theodore Spencer - Theme Song
Theodore Spencer - Escapist's Song
Theodore Spencer - The Inflatable Globe
Theodore Spencer - Lesson In Natural History
Theodore Spencer - Enlistment
Odgen Nash - We Would Refer You To Our Service Department If We Had One
Odgen Nash - Piano Tuner, Untune Me That Tune
Odgen Nash - I Do, I Will, I Have
Odgen Nash - The Private Dining Room
Odgen Nash - Peekaboo, I Almost See You
Odgen Nash - The Strange Case Ofthe Cautious Motorist
Odgen Nash - Tune For An Ill-Tempered Clavicord
Countee Cullen - Heritage
Merrill Moore - Enthusiasm
Merrill Moore - The Book of Howe
Merrill Moore - How She Resolved the Act
Merrill Moore - Old Men and Old Women Going Home on the Street Car
Merrill Moore - On the Grand Tour
Merrill Moore - The Noise That Time Makes: A Sonnet
John Holmes - The Fear of Dying
John Holmes - Carry Me Back
John Holmes - All's Well That Ends
Richard Eberhart - For a Lamb
Richard Eberhart - Seals, Terns, Time
Richard Eberhart - The Human Being Is A Lonely Creature
Richard Eberhart - The Oak
Richard Eberhart - A Ship Burning and a Comet All in One Day
Richard Eberhart - Spring Mountain Climb
Richard Eberhart - Equivalence of Gnats and Mice
Robert Penn Warren - Bearded Oaks
Robert Penn Warren - Terror
Stanley Kunitz - The Waltzer in the House
Stanley Kunitz - Geometry of Moods
Stanley Kunitz - The Tutored Child
Stanley Kunitz - So Intricately Is This World Resolved
Stanley Kunitz - The Dragonfly
Stanley Kunitz - A Choice of Weapons
Kenneth Rexroth - Another Spring
Kenneth Rexroth - The Sword in a Cloud of Light
Kenneth Rexroth - The Night Only
Kenneth Rexroth - An Easy Song
Kenneth Rexroth - May Day
W. H. Auden - Song: O Where Are You Going?
W. H. Auden - Villanelle: If I Could Tell You
W. H. Auden - The Wanderer
W. H. Auden - River Profile
W. H. Auden - After Reading A Child's Guide To Modern Physics
Theodore Roethke - Elegy For Jane
Theodore Roethke - My Papa's Waltz
Theodore Roethke - Big Wind
Theodore Roethke - Night Crow
Theodore Roethke - The Shimmer Of Evil
Theodore Roethke - The Lady Of Evil
Theodore Roethke - I Knew A Woman
Paul Engle - To Praise A Poet: Robert Frost
Paul Engle - You Can't Be Wise
Paul Engle - Beasts: Part I
Paul Engle - Beasts: Part II
Paul Engle - From: American Child
Paul Engle - Colettle
Winfield Townley - ScottThe Last One
Winfield Townley - ScottThe Man At Mid-Century
Winfield Townley - Dead Leaves Out Of Place
Winfield Townley - The Mother
Winfield Townley - The Long Party
Winfield Townley - Coleridge
Elizabeth Bishop - The Imaginary Iceberg
Elizabeth Bishop - The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop - Varick Street
Elizabeth Bishop - Visits To St. Elizabeth's
J. V. Cunningham - Miramar Beach
J. V. Cunningham - August Hall
J. V. Cunningham - Meditation On A Memoir
J. V. Cunningham - In The 30th Year Of Life
J. V. Cunningham - Hyciathe–The Quality Of Being This
J. V. Cunningham - Epigrams: An Epitaph, Soft, Career, At The Track
J. V. Cunningham - The Tourist
Kenneth Patchen - In Order To
Kenneth Patchen - Poemscapes: A) You Know You're All Nuts, B) Sunday, April 8
Kenneth Patchen - Selections From Hurrah forAnything
Brother Antoninus - Original Sin
Brother Antoninus - Missa Defunctorum
Brother Antoninus - Missa Sanctorum
Hy Sobiloff - My Mother's Table
Hy Sobiloff - The Schoolmaster
Hy Sobiloff - Pittsburgh
Hy Sobiloff - Airship
Hy Sobiloff - Christmas Poem
Hy Sobiloff - Hans Christian Anderson In Central Park
Karl Shapiro - The Figurehead
Karl Shapiro - Love For A Hand
Karl Shapiro - Adam And Eve: The Sickness Of Adam
Karl Shapiro - Recognition Of Eve
Karl Shapiro - The Kiss
John Frederick - Love Poem
John Frederick - The Young Ionia
John Frederick - Catullus, Poem, #LXX
John Frederick - Dawn Song
Delmore Schwartz - The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar
Delmore Schwartz - At A Solemn Music
Delmore Schwartz - Swift
Muriel Rukeyser - Reading Time: 1 Minute 26 Seconds
Muriel Rukeyser - Song
Muriel Rukeyser - Air
Muriel Rukeyser - The Overthrow Of One O'Clock At Night
Muriel Rukeyser - Wars
Muriel Rukeyser - Tenth Elegy From Elgy In Joy
Muriel Rukeyser - In Our Time
Barbara Howes - Early Supper
Barbara Howes - The Triumph Of Death
Barbara Howes - Coq De Combat
Barbara Howes - City Afternoon
Barbara Howes - ON A Bougainvillaea Vine At Teh Summer Palace
Barbara Howes - Dead Toucan-Guadaloupe
Barbara Howes - The Critic
Barbara Howes - Landscape: Deer Season
Barbara Howes - To W. H. Auden On His 50th Birthday
Randall Jarrell - Introductory Remarks
Randall Jarrell - Cinderella
Randall Jarrell - Comments
Randall Jarrell - The Woman At The Washington Zoo
John Berryman - Filling Her Compact And Delicious Body
John Berryman - Dream Songs No. 22– I Am The Little Man Who Smokes And Smokes
John Berryman - Dream Songs No. 16– Henry's Pelt Was Put On Sundry Walls
John Berryman - Dream Songs No. 29– There Sat Down, Once, A Thing
John Berryman - Dream Snogs N0. 75–Turning It Over, Considering
Owen Dodson - The Reunion
Owen Dodson - One Day
Owen Dodson - Black Mother Praying
Jean Garrigue - I Sought From Love
Jean Garrigue - Notes From Underground
Jean Garrigue - Invitation To A Hay
Jean Garrigue - Catch What You Can
Ruth Stone - Love's Relative
Ruth Stone - Vernal Equinox
Ruth Stone - In An Iridescent Time
Ruth Stone - In The Madness Of Age
Ruth Stone - The Magnet
Hollis Summers - Once Upon A Time
Hollis Summers - On Accepting The Gold Watch
Hollis Summers - Valintine
Hollis Summers - Female, Male And Both
Hollis Summers - The September Afternoon Trees
Hollis Summers - Colored Clay Horse With Wings
John Ciardi - Elegy For G. B. Shaw
John Ciardi - The Sea Shines
John Ciardi - V-J Day
John Ciardi - Bedlam Revisited
John Ciardi - The Dolls
Peter Viereck - Homecoming
Peter Viereck - Poet
Peter Viereck - Childhood
John Malcolm Brinnin - Little Elegy For Gertrude Stein
John Malcolm Brinnin - Heavy, Heavy, Heavy
John Malcolm Brinnin - Oedipus: His Cradle Song
John Malcolm Brinnin - Nuns At Eve
John Malcolm Brinnin - American Plan
Robert Lowell - For George Santayana
Robert Lowell - Charles The Fifth And The Peasant
Robert Lowell - Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid
Robert Lowell - Pigeons
Robert Lowell - End