| Description |
3 audio discs (3 hr., 29 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
032900 |
| Note |
British Library: NSACD 63--NSACD 65 (on container spine: NSACD 63-65). |
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BBC Radio broadcasts of poetry readings. |
| Performer |
Read by the authors. |
| Event |
Recorded between 1935 and Aug. 21, 1972. |
| Note |
Includes previously unreleased recordings. |
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Compact discs. |
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Program notes by Sir Andrew Motion ([20] p.) inserted in container. |
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Some poems preceded by introductory remarks. |
| 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). |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Fairman. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946. Author. Performer.
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Author. Performer.
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. Author. Performer.
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963. Author. Performer.
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Author. Performer.
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Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962. Author. Performer.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Author. Performer.
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Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973. Author. Performer.
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MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. Author. Performer.
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Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962. Author. Performer.
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Author. Performer.
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Nash, Ogden, 1902-1971. Author. Performer.
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Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963. Author. Performer.
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Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965. Author. Performer.
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Berryman, John, 1914-1972. Author. Performer.
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000. Author. Performer.
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Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977. Author. Performer.
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Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. Author. Performer.
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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Author. Performer.
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Bukowski, Charles. Author. Performer.
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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Author. Performer.
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017. Author. Performer.
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Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974. Author. Performer.
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Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012. Author. Performer.
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Corso, Gregory. Author. Performer.
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Plath, Sylvia. Author. Performer.
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Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014. Author. Performer.
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BBC Radio.
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British Library. National Sound Archive.
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British Broadcasting Corporation.
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| Added Title |
American poets |
| ISBN |
9780712351065 |
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071235106X |
| Music No. |
NSACD 63-65 British Library |
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NSACD 63 British Library |
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NSACD 64 British Library |
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NSACD 65 British Library |
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