Poetry speaks expanded : hear poets from Tennyson to Plath read their own work

Paschen, Elise. (Added Author). Mosby, Rebekah Presson. (Added Author).

Summary: Collects works by forty-seven important poets, arranged chronologically by birth order from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Sylvia Plath, and includes biographies, essays by accomplished contemporary poets, and CD recordings of each featured poet reading his or her own works.

Record details

ISBN: 1402210620
ISBN: 9781402210624
Physical Description: xiv, 384 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + 3 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
print
Edition: [2nd ed.].
Publisher: Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Rev. ed. of: Poetry speaks, 2001.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Disc 3 Star in the hills -- Traveling through the dark -- Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- Selle im Raum -- Ball poem -- 4 from the Dream Songs -- 22 from the Dream Songs -- Fern Hill -- Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred -- Skunk hour -- Home after three months away -- Song in the front yard -- Kitchenette building -- We real cool -- Poetry, a natural thing -- Often I am permitted ot return to a meadow -- MacDougal Street Blues: Canto Uno -- From Book of Haikus -- Places, loved ones -- Old fools -- Secret -- Her sadness -- From Howl -- Supermarket in California -- Ave Maria -- Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) -- Truth the dead know -- From the Operation -- Thought-fox -- February 17 -- Idea of ancestry -- Belly song -- Daddy -- Lady Lazarus.