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    In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet

    06/01/1996


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    All Music Guide Review

    The audience for the four-CD box set In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry is limited, but for those that want to delve deep into this collection -- which features poets reading their own work and there are over 120 poems included -- will find this immensely rewarding. Beginning with an 1890 recording of Walt Whitman reading "America," the set runs through many of the greatest poets of the next 100 years, who all have representative, if not their most famous, poems included. There are some omissions -- T.S. Eliot was not included, for instance -- but there has never been a set like this compiled before, nor is it likely to happen again. In their Own Voices is a treasure for poetry and spoken word devotees. ~ Thom Owens, All Music Guide

    In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 9
  • To Elsie
  • Williams, William Carlos
  • :15

  • 29 (2)
  • In Our Time
  • Rukeyser, Muriel
  • :21

  • 32 (2)
  • World Is So Difficutl to Give up...
  • Ignatow, David
  • :23

  • 33 (2)
  • This Is the Solution, to Be Happy With Slaughter...
  • Ignatow, David
  • :19

  • 35 (2)
  • I Killed a Fly...
  • Ignatow, David
  • :29

  • 41 (2)
  • Happiness
  • Ciardi, John
  • 1:48
  • Sound Clip for Happiness from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 51 (2)
  • Shame
  • Wilbur, Richard
  • 1:48
  • Sound Clip for Shame from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 57 (2)
  • Song
  • Ashbery, John
  • 1:27
  • Sound Clip for Song from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 69 (3)
  • How Poetry Comes to Me
  • Snyder, Gary
  • :17

  • 71 (3)
  • Daddy
  • Plath, Sylvia
  • 3:41
  • Sound Clip for Daddy from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 72 (3)
  • Ariel
  • Plath, Sylvia
  • 1:02
  • Sound Clip for Ariel from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 77 (3)
  • Rhythim Blues
  • Baraka, Amiri
  • :23

  • 80 (3)
  • Dahomey
  • Lorde, Audre
  • 2:08
  • Sound Clip for Dahomey from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 83 (3)
  • Keeping Things Whole
  • Strand, Mark
  • :29

  • 85 (3)
  • The Poem
  • Strand, Mark
  • 2:30
  • Sound Clip for The Poem from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 95 (4)
  • For Poets
  • Young, Al
  • :41
  • Sound Clip for For Poets from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 101 (4)
  • Wonder
  • Olds, Sharon
  • 1:37
  • Sound Clip for Wonder from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • 115 (4)
  • Parsley
  • Dove, Rita
  • 4:14
  • Sound Clip for Parsley from In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet


  • Credits of In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poet

    • Ted Myers
    • Project Director, Project Supervisor
    • Anne Waldman
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Al Young
    • Poetry, Performer, Liner Notes, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • David Ray
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • W.H. Auden
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • Marge Piercy
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • Mark Strand
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • John Updike
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • Mona Vanduyn
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Paul Zimmer
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Gary Snyder
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • John Ciardi
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Adrian Louis
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Audre Lorde
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • James Tate
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Rita Dove
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Dipshits
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Li-Young Lee
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Dan Jaffe
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Walt Whitman
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Robert Frost
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • Ogden Nash
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Dylan Thomas
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Anne Sexton
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • Ezra Pound
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • May Sarton
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Sylvia Plath
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • James Wright
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Erica Jong
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer
    • W.S. Merwin
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Joy Harjo
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Liner Notes, Performer
    • Amiri Baraka
    • Poetry, Performer, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part
    • Jack Kerouac
    • Poetry, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Performer


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