Ulysses /Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) --Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) --
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) --
Tithonus / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) --
Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) --
Robert Browning (1812-1889) --
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning (1812-1889) --
Meeting at night / Robert Browning (1812-1889) --
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) --
Bivouac on a mountain side / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) --
Last invocation / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) --
Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) --
Second coming / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) --
Among school children / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) --
Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) --
Crazy Jane on the day of judgment / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) --
If I told him / Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) --
To earthward / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Come in / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Chicago / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) --
Fog / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) --
Fabliau of Florida / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) --
Bantams in Pine-Woods / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) --
Thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) --
Idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) --
Chamber music II / James Joyce (1882-1941) --
Chamber music X / James Joyce (1882-1941) --
Chamber music XVIII / James Joyce (1882-1941) --
She weeps over Rahoon / James Joyce (1882-1941) --
Ecce Puer / James Joyce (1882-1941) --
Spring and all / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) --
To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) --
Sort of a song / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) --
River-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --
In a station of the Metro / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --
Garden / H.D. (1886-1961) --
Orchard / H.D. (1886-1961) --
Helen / H.D. (1886-1961) --
Oread / H.D. (1886-1961) --
Hurt Hawks / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) --
Purse-Seine / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) --
Carmel Point / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) --
Painted head / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) --
Equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) --
Dead boy / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) --
Journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) --
Burnt Norton from Four Quartets / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) --
First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) --
News item / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) --
Pig's-eye view of literature / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) --
Lady's reward / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) --
In just / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
Love is a place / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
May I feel said he / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
Pity this busy monster / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) --
Ulysses / Robert Graves (1895-1985) --
Return of the Goddess / Robert Graves (1895-1985) --
Amergin's charm / Robert Graves (1895-1985) --
With her lips only / Robert Graves (1895-1985) --
Time of waiting / Robert Graves (1895-1985).
Medusa / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) --
Louise Bogan (1897-1970) --
Sleeping fury / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) --
Lambda / Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) --
O vocables of love / Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) --
Take hands / Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) --
I, too / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) --
Good morning / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) --
Luck / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) --
Trouble with women is men / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) --
Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) --
Laments for a dying language / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) --
O where are you going? / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) --
Funeral blues / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) --
As I walked out one evening / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) --
Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) --
British Museum Reading Room / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) --
Star-gazer /Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) --
Sloth / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) --
In a dark time / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) --
Map / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) --
Armadillo / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) --
One art / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) --
In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
May Swenson (1913-1989) --
Orbiter 5 shows how Earth looks from the moon / May Swenson (1913-1989) --
July 4th / May Swenson (1913-1989) --
Woods at night / May Swenson (1913-1989) --
Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) --
Homage to the Empress of the Blues / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) --
Words in the mourning time / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) --
From Letter to the front / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) --
Ballad of Orange and Grape / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) --
Passing remark / William Stafford (1914-1993) --
Saint Matthew and all / William Stafford (1914-1993) --
Report to Crazy Horse / William Stafford (1914-1993) --
90 North / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) --
Next day / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) --
From the Dream Songs / John Berryman (1914-1972) --
"Sole Watchman" from Eleven Addresses to the Lord / John Berryman (1914-1972) --
And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas (19141-1953) --
In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas (19141-1953) --
Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas (19141-1953)
"To speak of woe that is in marriage" /
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) --
For the Union dead / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) --
Epilogue / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) --
Boy died in my alley / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) --
Speech to the young / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) --
Structure of Rime I / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) --
Sentinels / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) --
7th chorus from Orizaba 210 Blues / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) --
from Biographical Resume, Fall 1957 / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) --
99th chorus from Mexico City Blues / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) --
114th chorus from Mexico City Blues / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) --
Rimbaud / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) --
Whitson Weddings / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) --
Wild oats / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) --
This be the verse / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) --
Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) --
Talking to grief / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) --
Woman alone / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) --
America / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) --
Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) --
Poem (Hate is only one of many responses) / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) --
Day lady died / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) --
Her kind / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) --
For my lover, returning to his wife / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) --
Rumpelstiltskin / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) --
Howling of wolves / Ted Hughes (1930-1998) --
Crow's first lesson / Ted Hughes (1930-1998) --
Pink wool knitted dress / Ted Hughes (1930-1998) --
Hard Rock returns to prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane / Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) --
Dark Prophecy: I sing of shine / Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) --
Violent space / Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) --
Tulips / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) --
Morning song / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) --
I am vertical / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).
Disc 1 From "The bugle song" --
From The charge of the light brigade --
How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix --
Yeats on "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" --
Lake Isle of Innisfree --
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 --
She bowed to her brother / Oven bird --
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening --
107 from The People, Yes --
So-and-so reclining on her couch --
Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself --
From Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake --
Day is a poem (September 19, 1939) --
Bells for John Whiteside's daughter --
Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock --
I shall forget you presently, my dear --
Childhood is the kingdom hwere nobody dies --
From anyone lived in a pretty how town --
As freedom is a breakfastfood --
To Juan at the Winter solstice --
Negro speaks of rivers --
I must tell you about my novel --
In memory of W.B. Yeats --
From Crusoe in England --
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) --
Disc 3 Star in the hills --
Traveling through the dark --
Death of the Ball Turret Gunner --
4 from the Dream Songs --
22 from the Dream Songs --
Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred --
Home after three months away --
Song in the front yard --
Poetry, a natural thing --
Often I am permitted ot return to a meadow --
MacDougal Street Blues: Canto Uno --
Supermarket in California --
Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) --