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"By the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more."
— WALL STREET JOURNAL

"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."
— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry, a practice of discipline, skill, and magic."
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Overview

"By the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more."
— WALL STREET JOURNAL

"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work."
— PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry, a practice of discipline, skill, and magic."
- BOOKLIST

"...The prose comes to life when read aloud, especially when you hear James Joyce read it himself."
— NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED host Jacki Lyden

"This tome is a reminder how the human spirit is capable of finding an outlet in oppressive times, how poetry can help explain why we do what we do as a thinking people...Certainly, in our struggle to make sense out of what we do not understand, Poetry Speaks Expanded helps on so many levels." — Carol Hoenig, THE HUFFINGTON POST

"...[A] bountiful experience: there is the thrill of discovery and re-discovery as with any good anthology, with an added emphasis on the poets' personalities and growth" — John Hammond, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

"[An] accessible, beautifully executed collection guaranteed to offer poetry fans a memorable reading and listening experience" — WORDCANDY.NET

"...[A]s I savored these beautiful poems, it reminded me of French poet Charles Baudelaire who wrote, 'Any man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.'" - Norm Goldman, BOOKPLEASURES.COM

"Light[s] up a reader's eyes." - Frank Wilson, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Hear And Read All Of These Poets (And More)
244 Poems Included In The Book
107 Poems Read By The Poets Themselves On 3 Audio CDs

Robert Graves, E. E. Cummings, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, Ted Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Philip Larkin, Wallace Stevens, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ogden Nash, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Allen Ginsberg Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Randall Jarrell, Jack Kerouac, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, John Crowe Ransom

Poetry Speaks Expanded is a fusion of the poet's words with the poet's voice, including text and recordings of nearly 50 of the greatest poets who ever lived, ranging from Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot to Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.

"This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW

"Readers and listeners are guaranteed to hear poems in a new way after spending time with this book and CD set."
-LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED REVIEW

"Superb, accessible....A unique and essential purchase"
-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Poetry
—For the first time ever, James Joyce reads "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake alongside the original text from the book
—T. S. Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
—Sylvia Plath's anger and raw emotion as she reads "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus"
—Jack Kerouac reading from "MacDougal Street Blues," accompanied by Steve Allen on piano
—May Swenson rehearsing "The Watch" prior to a reading
—H. D. reading a part of "Helen in Egypt" from a rare recording made shortly before her death
—Ted Hughes reading "February 17" during a BBC interview
—A never-before-published recording of Alfred, Lord Tennyson reading "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
—W. B. Yeats explaining his reading style and why he chooses to read that way
—Robert Frost reading "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Essays Written By Today's Most Influential Poets, Including: W. S. Merwin on Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney on W. B. Yeats, Paul Muldoon on James Joyce, Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams, Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks, Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman, Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop and Al Young on Langston Hughes

"The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years."
-QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB

A Book Sense Top-10 Selection

Winner of a Mom's Choice Awards -- 2008 Gold Recipient!

Editorial Reviews

School Library Journal

Adult/High School
Poetry Speaks (Sourcebooks, 2001) has been expanded to include James Joyce, Robert Graves, May Swenson, Jack Kerouac, and Ted Hughes. Each of the 47 poets, all deceased, is introduced through a biographical sketch, an essay by a contemporary poet, the text of a few representative poems and, of course, select recordings. The inviting layout and scattering of primary-source material (gems include a handwritten poem on a paper plate by Etheridge Knight and an edited draft of W. H. Auden's "September 1, 1939"), and the invaluable effect of poems read by their creators remain the collection's hallmarks. The experience of listening to Joyce read an excerpt from Finnegans Wake with his thick Irish brogue will inevitably take any dissection of his work to new depths. This volume will continue to prove a playground for poetry lovers and a spark for any literature class.
—Jill Heritage MazaCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781402210624
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/17/2007
  • Edition description: Expanded
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 200,057
  • Series: Poetry Speaks Series
  • Product dimensions: 9.76 (w) x 11.28 (h) x 1.35 (d)

Meet the Author

Elise Paschen
Elise Paschen

Elise Paschen is the editor of Poetry Speaks to Children and co-editor of Poetry Speaks, both New York Times bestsellers. She is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections of her own, including Bestiary and Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Former Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, she is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion, a nationwide program that places poetry in subways and buses, and co-editor of Poetry in Motion and Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast.

Rebekah Presson Mosby was nominated for a Grammy for her work as producer / editor of the 4CD box set, Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) and also edited the groundbreaking Rhino Records poetry box sets, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry and Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work.

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Introduction

A poem can change your life. In poems, we discover the words and images to understand and interpret the world. Whether writing birth songs or elegies, love vows or political anthems, lyric outbursts or vast narratives, great poets throughout the ages transform ordinary experience, thought, and emotion into something memorable.

A poet regards the page differently than the prose writer. As the French poet Paul Valéry wrote, "Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking." The poet, when writing, considers the borders of a right and left margin and chooses where to begin and end the line. "Verse" derives from the Latin versus, or "turn," as in turn of the plough, furrow, or line of writing. Unlike the prose writer, who will continue writing the sentence until the typewriter or computer pulls the line over to the left margin, the poet "carves" the line onto the page.

Just as poetry differs from prose on the page, poems have a unique power when read aloud. Poets are attuned to sound as they "make" their poems or, in Robert Frost's words, create "the sound of sense." Hearing poetry read aloud, the listener may glimpse the poet's psyche. Recited well, poetry can even mesmerize.

Recall the first time you heard a poem read out loud: perhaps your mother or father recited "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" when you were young. Or maybe, when older, a high school teacher read to the class T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" or Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool." What if we could hear Eliot or Brooks, Frost or W.B. Yeats recite poems in their own voices? Yeats wrote, "I wanted all my poetry to be spoken on a stage or sung....I have spent my life in clearing out of poetry every phrase written for the eye, and bringing all back to syntax that is for the ear alone." The force of a poem is empowered by the voice behind the poem. I remember the first time I heard Yeats reciting his poetry. I had researched a script for a Bloomsday Joyce/Yeats tribute in New York City. The program concluded with a recording of Yeats reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." Although I had studied and written about the poem, it was not until after hearing Yeats's sonorous tone, his inflections and rhythm, that the work gained new dimension. When I later visited the Lake Isle of Innisfree in Ireland, the memory of Yeats's voice reverberated through the landscape. The sound of the author's voice resurrects the poet vividly in the imagination.

Poetry spoken aloud recalls the oral origins of poetry. In every culture, poetry emerges before writing. In traditional Native American societies, poetry was expressed in prayers and ceremonies, as in the Navajo Blessingway Chants. In Babylon, in the early twenty-first century b.c., court entertainers sang for King Shulgi early versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh. During the fifth century b.c. in Greece, Homeric bards recited The Iliad from memory. These early spoken performances have been revived in our own day as we witness the popularity of Slam, Hip Hop, Rap, and Cowboy poetry, as well as more traditional poetry readings.

The force of modern poetry resides in this union of the written and the spoken word. With this insight in mind, we have compiled in Poetry Speaks a collection that features memorable poems of the last century and a half-works that, remarkably, have also been recorded in the poets' own voices. Here is a rare mix of poems for the eye and the ear, where the lover of poetry may act as both reader and listener. We hope that you will discover, in these pages and on these discs, poems that change your life.

Elise Paschen

Table of Contents

Track List
• Note from the Publisher
• Introduction -

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
• Anthony Hecht on Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses
"The Bugle Song"
The Charge of the Light Brigade Tithonus Crossing the Bar

Robert Browning (1812—1889)
• Edward Hirsch on Robert Browning My Last Duchess Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Meeting at Night How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix

Walt Whitman (1819—1892)
• Galway Kinnell on Walt Whitman from Song of Myself Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Bivouac on a Mountain Side The Last Invocation America

William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
• Seamus Heaney on William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree Adam's Curse The Second Coming Among School Children Sailing to Byzantium Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931

Gertrude Stein (1874—1946)
• C.D. Wright on Gertrude Stein Christian Berard She Bowed to Her Brother If I Told Him

Robert Frost (1874—1963)
• Richard Wilbur on Robert Frost The Oven Bird The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Nothing Gold Can Stay To Earthward The Silken Tent Come In

Carl Sandburg (1878—1967)
• Rosellen Brown on Carl Sandburg Chicago Fog Grass Cool Tombs
107 from The People, Yes

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
• Mark Strand on Wallace Stevens Fabliau of Florida Bantams in Pine-Woods Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The Idea of Order at Key West So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself

James Joyce (1882-1941)-
Paul Muldoon on James Joyce Chamber Music II Chamber Music X Chamber Music XVIII She Weeps Over Rahoon Ecce Puer Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake

William Carlos Williams (1883—1963)
• Robert Pinsky on William Carlos Williams Queen-Anne's-Lace Spring and All To Elsie The Red Wheelbarrow A Sort of a Song To a Poor Old Woman

Ezra Pound (1885—1972)
• Charles Bernstein on Ezra Pound The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Cantico Del Sole In a Station of the Metro Hugh Selwyn Mauberley XLV from The Cantos

H.D. (1886—1961)
• Rafael Campo on H.D.
Garden Orchard Helen Oread from Helen in Egypt

Robinson Jeffers (1887—1962)
• Robert Hass on Robinson Jeffers Hurt Hawks The Purse-Seine The Day Is a Poem (September 19, 1939)
Oh, Lovely Rock Carmel Point

John Crowe Ransom (1888—1974)
• John Hollander on John Crowe Ransom Captain Carpenter Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter Painted Head The Equilibrists Dead Boy

T. S. Eliot (1888—1965)
• Agha Shahid Ali on T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock La Figlia Che Piange Journey of the Magi Burnt Norton from Four Quartets

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950)
• Molly Peacock on Edna St. Vincent Millay Recuerdo First Fig Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies

Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
• Susan Hahn on Dorothy Parker One Perfect Rose Résumé
News Item Afternoon A Pig's-Eye View of Literature The Lady's Reward

E. E. Cummings (1894—1962)
• Brad Leithauser on E.E. Cummings in Just-
love is a place may i feel said he anyone lived in a pretty how town as freedom is a breakfastfood pity this busy monster

Robert Graves (1895-1985)
• W.S. Merwin on Robert Graves The Castle Ulysses To Juan at the Winter Solstice Return of the Goddess Amergin's Charm With Her Lips Only The Blue-Fly A Time of Waiting

Louise Bogan (1897—1970)
• Richard Howard on Louise Bogan Medusa The Daemon The Sleeping Fury The Dream Song for the Last Act

Melvin B. Tolson (1898—1966)
• Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson An Ex-Judge at the Bar Dark Symphony Lambda

Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901—1991) -161
Forrest Gander on Laura (Riding) Jackson O Vocables of Love Death as Death Nothing So Far Take Hands

Langston Hughes (1902—1967)
• Al Young on Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Mother to Son The Weary Blues I, Too Good Morning Harlem [2]
Luck

Ogden Nash (1902—1971)
• Billy Collins on Ogden Nash The Trouble with Women Is Men Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man I Do, I Will, I Have I Must Tell You About My Novel Laments for a Dying Language

W. H. Auden (1907—1973)
• Dana Gioia on W.H. Auden O Where Are You Going?
Funeral Blues As I Walked Out One Evening In Memory of W.B. Yeats Musée des Beaux Arts If I Could Tell You

Louis MacNeice (1907—1963)
• Peter McDonald on Louis MacNeice Bagpipe Music Conversation Meeting Point The British Museum Reading Room Star-gazer

Theodore Roethke (1908—1963)
• Joy Harjo on Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz The Waking I Knew a Woman The Sloth In a Dark Time

Elizabeth Bishop (1911—1979)
• Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop The Fish The Map The Armadillo Crusoe in England One Art In the Waiting Room

May Swenson (1913-1989)
• Grace Shulman on May Swenson Question The Watch At Truro Orbiter 5 Shows How Earth Looks From the Moon July 4th The Woods at Night

Robert Hayden (1913—1980)
• Marilyn Nelson on Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays Frederick Douglass Homage to the Empress of the Blues El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
Words in the Mourning Time

Muriel Rukeyser (1913—1980)
• Sharon Olds on Muriel Rukeyser Night Feeding from Letter to the Front The Poem as Mask Waiting for Icarus Ballad of Orange and Grape

William Stafford (1914—1993)
• Robert Bly on William Stafford The Star in the Hills Traveling Through the Dark Passing Remark Saint Matthew and All Report to Crazy Horse

Randall Jarrell (1914—1965)
• Peter Sacks on Randall Jarrell
90 North The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Seele im Raum Next Day

John Berryman (1914—1972)
• Elizabeth Spires on John Berryman The Ball Poem
4 from The Dream Songs
14 from The Dream Songs
22 from The Dream Songs
"Sole Watchman" from Eleven Addresses to the Lord

Dylan Thomas (1914—1953)-
Glyn Maxwell on Dylan Thomas And Death Shall Have No Dominion Fern Hill Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred In My Craft or Sullen Art Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Robert Lowell (1917—1977)
• Frank Bidart on Robert Lowell Skunk Hour Home After Three Months Away
"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage"
For the Union Dead Epilogue

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917—2000)
• Sonia Sanchez on Gwendolyn Brooks A Song in the Front Yard kitchenette building We Real Cool The Boy Died in My Alley Speech to the Young

Robert Duncan (1919—1988)
• Michael Palmer on Robert Duncan Poetry, A Natural Thing The Structure of Rime i Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow The Sentinels

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
• Jason Shinder on Jack Kerouac MacDougal Street Blues: Canto Uno
7th Chorus from Orizaba 210 Blues from Book of Haikus
[Biographical Resume, Fall 1957]
99th Chorus from Mexico City Blues
114th Chorus from Mexico City Blues Rimbaud

Philip Larkin (1922—1985)
• Mary Jo Salter on Philip Larkin Places, Loved Ones The Whitsun Weddings Wild Oats This Be the Verse The Old Fools

Denise Levertov (1923—1997)
• Nancy Willard on Denise Levertov Come Into Animal Presence The Secret Talking to Grief A Woman Alone Her Sadness

Allen Ginsberg (1926—1997)
• C.K. Williams on Allen Ginsberg Howl A Supermarket in California America

Frank O'Hara (1926—1966)
• David Lehman on Frank O'Hara Why I Am Not a Painter Poem (Hate Is Only One of Many Responses)
The Day Lady Died Ave Maria Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)

Anne Sexton (1928—1974)
• Kay Ryan on Anne Sexton The Truth the Dead Know Her Kind The Operation For My Lover, Returning to His Wife Rumpelstiltskin

Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
• Christopher Reid on Ted Hughes The Thought-Fox The Howling of Wolves Crow's First Lesson February 17
A Pink Wool Knitted Dress

Etheridge Knight (1931—1991)
• Elizabeth Alexander on Etheridge Knight The Idea of Ancestry Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane Belly Song Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine The Violent Space

Sylvia Plath (1932—1963)
• Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath Tulips Morning Song I Am Vertical Daddy Lady Lazarus

Index
• About the Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Permissions
• Audio Credits
• Photo Credits -

Elise Paschen is the author of Houses: Coasts and Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and the co-founder of "Poetry in Motion," a nationwide program that places poetry in subways and buses. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestselling Poetry Speaks to Children.

Rebekah Presson Mosby was nominated for a Grammy for her work as producer / editor of the 4CD box set, Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) and also edited the groundbreaking Rhino Records poetry box sets, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry and Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work.

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  • Posted December 28, 2011

    excellent book

    I bought this book for my father, who has low vision. He loves poetry and I bought it mainly because it came with the CD's, and I thought he would enjoy hearing the different poets read their works. He absolutely loves this book. He was able to put the book under his reader machine and he says it is all very interesting and gives explanations of the poets, their biographies and everything. He said that to read that, he gets a better understanding of the poems on the audio portion.

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    Posted September 5, 2002

    This could have been much better

    This book is based on a good idea i.e.,enabling the reader of poetry to also be its listener,the listener of the poet reading their own poetry .This is enhanced by having distinguished contemporary poets write brief commentaries on the various poets of the anthology . The great problem I found with the work was with the realization of these ideas.For the first poets presented ,Tennyson Browning and Whitman, there is the poor quality of the recording at the time these poets lived. But this technical problem does not play a part with the other poets. With them very often the problem is that we hear from them work which is not their best.The anthology too includes a fairly large number of quite undistinguished poets . There are of course great and moving moments in the readings.Sandburg provides such , as does Frost in his way. There are also revelatory moments as in the chilling tone of Plath's reading which frightens in its deadening inhumanity.The perhaps most remarkable reader of his own poetry in modern times,Dylan Thomas is strong here also. The anthology 's perhaps greatest strength is the feel of a flowingness in poetry throughout .The expert's comments are brief and not very interesting for anyone who knows the poet's work well .There is little on a deep critical level here. This is a popular anthology but my sense is it could have been done in a better way. Is there by the way no religious poetry in the modern era? So again this work does give much it is also disappointing . The poem I willed / I could not write/ The poem I wrote/ became my life.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 12, 2002

    Finally a complete collection of contemporary poetry

    It is a little unusual at first to hear the actual voice recordings of the great poets. The recordings of William Butler Yeats, Tennyson, Robert Browning, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, are all included reading their own works. What I find interesting is their individual style of reading. One one level it is fascinating to hear their actual voices and that brings a new dimension to how one might have interpreted their works in the past. On another level some of the voices may not bring forth the poetic character one might expect from a poet who is prolific in writing words yet less masterful in their spoken delivery. Still this is a great rare collection and a wonderful reference to the recorded words of these legendary poets. Certainly hearing Allen Ginsberg in contrast to still living great poets Seamus Heaney and Robert Pinsky brings to light the great weaves and textures words spoken from these authors bring. The book brings to life the poems in print form adding a short biography and photo of each poet. The book is well researched and you can read some original writings and reproduced manuscripts. Some of the earlier recordings were probably remastered and still sound like they were recorded with old world technology and that is to be expected. Otherwise this is an excellent -must have - collection.

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    Posted October 23, 2008

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