Track Notes (go to Jim's mention)

Vol. 1: [TT 49:02]

CS Side 1: [TT 25:33]

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
1."America" [ :30]
Originally collected in Leaves Of Grass, 1855
Recorded on wax cylinder by Thomas Edison, ca. 1890
From Walt Whitman Audio Material, distributed by the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review,
University Of Iowa, 1992

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)
2."The Lake Isle Of Innisfree" [ :45]
Originally collected in Poems, 1895
3."The Song Of The Old Mother" [1:02]
Originally collected in The Wind Among The Reeds, 1899
(tks 2-3)
Recorded in London, ca. 1935
Library Of Congress #T-3246

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
4."The Road Not Taken" [ :58]
5."Birches" [2:55]
(tks 4-5)
Originally collected in Mountain Interval, 1916
Recorded at Frost's home, Cambridge, MA, May 1956
From the album Robert Frost Reads, Caedmon/Harper Audio #DCN 2287, 1992
6."The Gift Outright" [1:52]
Originally collected in A Witness Tree, 1942
Recorded at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, New York City, ca. 1950-52
From the album Robert Frost Reads, Caedmon/Harper Audio #DCN 2287, 1992

GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)
7."If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait Of Picasso" [5:00]
Originally collected in The Making Of Americans, 1925
Recorded in New York City, Winter 1934-1935
From the album Gertrude Stein Reads From Her Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #V 1050, 1955

WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
8."So & So Reclining On Her Couch" [2:03]
Originally collected in Transport To Summer, 1947
Recorded at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, New York City, Jan. 25, 1951
From the album An Album Of Modern Poetry: An Anthology Read By The Poets (various artists),
Library Of Congress #PL 20,21,22, 1959

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
9."The Red Wheelbarrow" [ :15]
10."To Elsie" [2:28]
(tks 9-10)
Originally collected in Spring And All, 1923
Recorded at Williams' home, Rutherford, NJ, June 1954
From the album William Carlos Williams Reads His Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #CPN 1047,
1958

EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
11."Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" (Excerpt) [4:45]
Originally collected in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, 1920
Recorded in Washington, D.C., 1958
From the album Ezra Pound Reads Selected Cantos And Others, Caedmon/Harper Audio #V
2088, 1960

MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
12."Bird-Witted" [approx 3:00]
Originally collected in Collected Poems, 1951
From the album Marianne Moore Reads From Her Own Works (Yale Series Of Recorded Poets),
Decca #DL 9135, 1961

CS Side 2: [TT 23:29]

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
13."Recuerdo" [1:29]
Originally collected in A Few Figs From Thistles, 1922
14."Love Is Not All" [1:06]
Originally collected in Fatal Interview, 1931
(tks 13-14)
From the album An Album Of Modern Poetry: An Anthology Read By The Poets (various artists),
Library Of Congress #PL 20,21,22, 1959

e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
15."next to of course god america" [1:00]
Originally collected in is 5, 1926
16."anyone lived in a pretty how town" [1:53]
Originally collected in 50 poems, 1940
(tks 15-16)
From the album e.e. cummings Reads His Collected Poetry 1920-1940 And Prose,
Caedmon/Harper Audio #SWC 2080

ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)
17."To Juan At The Winter Solstice" [2:10]
Originally collected in Poems: 1938-1945, 1946
Recorded in New York City, 1957
From the album Robert Graves Reads From The White Goddess And Others, Caedmon/Harper
Audio #V 1066, 1957

STEVEN VINCENT BENET (1898-1943)
18."The Opening Of The Battle Of Gettysburg" [3:46]
Originally collected in John Brown's Body, 1929
From the album The Poetry Of Stephen Vincent Benet, Caedmon/Harper Audio #CDL 51337, 1971

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
19."The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" [ :46]
Originally collected in The Weary Blues, 1926
20."Ballad Of The Gypsy" [ :48]
Originally collected in Shakespeare In Harlem, 1942
21."Mulatto" [1:33]
Originally collected in Fine Clothes To The Jew, 1927
(tks 19-21)
Recorded in London for broadcast on BBC Radio, 1962 & 1964
From the album Langston Hughes Reads, Caedmon/Harper Audio #DCN 1640, 1980

OGDEN NASH (1902-1975)
22."Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man" [1:59]
Originally collected in Many Long Years Ago, 1945
Recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, 1959
Library of Congress #T 2982, 1959

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1988)
23."Love Recognized" [1:12]
Originally collected in Now And Then: Poems 1976-1978, 1978
From the album Robert Penn Warren Reads Selected Poems 1923-1978, Caedmon/Harper Audio
#V 1654, 1980

STANLEY KUNITZ (1905- )
24."King Of The River" [4:00]
Originally collected in The Wellfleet Whale And Companion Poems, 1983
Recorded in New Jersey for the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1992
Previously unissued

W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
25."In Memory Of W.B. Yeats" (Part 1) [1:47]
Originally collected in Another Time, 1940
Recorded at Caedmon Studios, New York City, 1955
From the album W.H. Auden Reads His Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #V 1019, 1955

Vol. 2: [TT 68:08]

CS Side 3: [TT 37:14]

THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
1."I Knew A Woman" [2:00]
Originally collected in Words For The Wind, 1958
2."Elegy For Jane" [1:39]
Originally collected in The Waking, 1953
(tks 1-2)
From the album Theodore Roethke Reads His Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #SWC 1351

STEPHEN SPENDER (1909-1995)
3."Rough" [1:10]
Originally collected in Poems, 1933
(This poem was originally titled "Rough" in the collection Poems, but was listed as "My parents
kept me..." on the album Stephen Spender Reading His Poetry)
4."Thoughts During An Air Raid" [1:25]
Originally collected in The Still Centre, 1939
(tks 3-4)
From the album Stephen Spender Reading His Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #SWC 1084

MAY SARTON (1912-1995)
5."My Sisters, O My Sisters" [2:53]
Originally collected in The Lion And The Rose, 1948
From the album May Sarton Reading Her Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #0-89845-597-9, 1987

MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)
6."In Our Time" [ :18]
Originally collected in Breaking Open, 1973
7."Despisals" [1:31]
Originally collected in Breaking Open, 1973
8."The Ballad Of Orange And Grape" [2:41]
Originally collected in The Speed Of Darkness, 1968
(tks 6-8)
Recorded at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, New York City, 1976 & 1977
From the album The Poetry And Voice Of Muriel Rukeyser, Caedmon/Harper Audio #SWC 1536

DAVID IGNATOW (1914- )
9."The world is so difficult to give up..." [ :21]
10."This is the solution, to be happy with slaughter..." [ :16]
11."Here I am with mike in hand, shooting down the rapids..." [ :25]
12."I killed a fly..." [ :34]
13."What about dying?..." [ :47]
(tks 9-13)
Originally collected in Shadowing The Ground, 1991
Recorded at the National Public Radio Bureau, New York City for broadcast on the radio program
New Letters On The Air, 1991
Previously unissued

WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993)
14."Scars" [ :44]
Originally collected in An Oregon Message, 1987
15."It Is" [ :41]
Unpublished
(tks 14-15)
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1983
Previously unissued

DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)
16."Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" [1:34]
Originally collected in Deaths And Entrances, 1946
17."If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love" [3:15]
Originally collected in 18 Poems, 1934
(tks 16-17)
From the album Dylan Thomas Reading His Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #DCN 2014, 1964

JOHN CIARDI (1916-1984)
18."Happiness" [1:47]
Originally collected in The Birds Of Pompeii, 1985
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1983
Previously unissued

ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
19."The Old Flame" [1:55]
Originally collected in For The Union Dead, 1964
20."Skunk Hour" [2:18]
Originally collected in Life Studies, 1959
21."Epilogue" [approx 3:00]
Originally collected in Day By Day, 1977
(tks 19-21)
Recorded at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, New York City, Dec. 1976
From the album Robert Lowell Reads His Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #V 1569, 1978

WILLIAM MEREDITH (1919- )
22."Crossing Over" [approx 2:00]
Originally collected in The Cheer, 1980
Previously unissued

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (1919- )
23."See it was like this when..." [ :34]
24."Underwear" [3:26]
(tks 23-24)
Originally collected in A Coney Island Of The Mind, 1958
Recorded at The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD
From the album Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Into The Deeper Pools, Watershed Foundation #C-167,
1984

CS Side 4: [TT 30:54]

CHARLES BUKOWSKI (1920-1995)
25."The Secret Of My Endurance" [2:06]
Originally collected in Dangling In The Tournefortia, 1981
Recorded at the Sweetwater, Redondo Beach, CA, April 1980
From the album Hostage, Freeway #1058, 1985

HOWARD NEMEROV (1920-1991)
26."Thanksgrieving" [1:27]
Originally collected in Sentences, 1980
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1990
Previously unissued

MONA VAN DUYN (1921- )
27."Sonnet For Minimalists" [ :42]
Originally collected in Near Changes, 1990
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1991
Previously unissued

RICHARD WILBUR (1921- )
28."Shame" [1:44]
Originally collected in Advice To A Prophet, 196
29."Apology" [ :35]
Originally collected in Advice To A Prophet, 1961
30."Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World" [1:49]
Originally collected in Things Of This World, 1956
(tks 28-30)
From the album Richard Wilbur Reading His Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #SWC 1248

JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969)
With Al Cohn & Zoot Simms
31."American Haikus" (Excerpt) [6:25]
From Book Of Haiku, an unpublished collection, portions of which appear in Scattered Poems,
1971
Recorded in New York City, 1958
From the album Blues And Haikus, Hanover #5006, 1959

LISEL MUELLER (1924- )
32."Monet Refuses The Operation" [approx. 3:00]
Originally collected in Second Language, 1986
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1981
Previously unissued

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926- )
33."America" [8:32]
Originally collected in Howl And Other Poems, 1956
Recorded at Town Hall Theater, Berkeley, CA, March 1956
From the album Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems And Songs 1949-1993 (box set), Rhino/Word Beat
#71693, 1994

JOHN ASHBERY (1927- )
34."Song" [1:22]
Originally collected in The Double Dream Of Spring, 1970
Recorded at the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory, Washington, D.C., 1973
From the album John Ashbery: The Songs We Know Best, Watershed Foundation #C-230, 1989

GALWAY KINNELL (1927- )
35."After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" [1:17]
Originally collected in Mortal Act, Mortal Words, 1980
Recorded in New York City, 1996
Previously unissued
36."Last Gods" [1:55]
Originally collected in When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone, 1990
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1981
Previously unissued

Vol. 3: [TT 61:54]

CS Side 5: [TT 30:20]

W.S. MERWIN (1927- )
1."The River Bees" [1:19]
Originally collected in The Lice, 1967
Recorded in 1970
From the album W.S. Merwin Reading His Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #CPN 1295, 1970

JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)
2."A Blessing" [1:05]
Originally collected in The Branch Will Not Break, 1963
Recorded at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, New York City, 1976 & 1977
From the album The Poetry And Voice Of James Wright, Caedmon/Harper #SWC 1538

ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)
3."The Truth The Dead Know" [1:15]
4."All My Pretty Ones" [3:00]
(tks 3-4)
Originally collected in All My Pretty Ones, 1962
Recorded in 1974
From the album Anne Sexton Reads Her Poetry, Caedmon/Harper Audio #V 1441

MAYA ANGELOU (1928- )
5."Phenomenal Woman" [2:00]
Originally collected in Phenomenal Woman, 1994
From the album Phenomenal Woman, Random House #387, 1995

RICHARD HOWARD (1929- )
6."Even In Paris" (Excerpt) [6:30]
Originally collected in No Traveller, 1986
Recorded in Saratoga, NY for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1989
Previously unissued

ADRIENNE RICH (1929- )
7."Diving Into The Wreck" [3:54]
Originally collected in Diving Into The Wreck, 1973
Recorded at the University Of California, Santa Cruz, 1986
From the album Planetarium: A Retrospective 1950-1980, Watershed Foundation #C-201, 1986

DEREK WALCOTT (1930- )
8."Omeros" (Excerpt) [4:00]
Originally collected in Omeros, 1990
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1990
Previously unissued

GARY SNYDER (1930- )
9."The Song Of The Taste" [ :56]
Originally collected in Regarding Wave, 1970
10."How Poetry Comes To Me" [ :16]
Originally collected in Left Out In The Rain, 1986
11."Why I Take Good Care Of My Macintosh Computer" [1:25]
Unpublished
(tks 9-11)
Recorded at the Capitol Hill Hotel, Washington, D.C., 1989
From the album This Is Our Body, Watershed Foundation #C-231, 1989

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
12."Daddy" [3:40]
13."Ariel" [1:00]
(tks 12-13)
Originally collected in Ariel, 1965
Recorded in London, Oct. 1962
From the album Plath Reads Plath, Credo #3, 1975

CS Side 6: [TT 31:34]

DAVID RAY (1932- )
14."The Greatest Poem In The World" [1:50]
Originally collected in The Tramp's Cup, 1978
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1979
Previously unissued

JOHN UPDIKE (1932- )
15."An Oddly Lovely Day Alone" [2:03]
Originally collected in Facing Nature, 1985
Recorded at Updike's home, Massachusetts for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On
The Air, 1987
Previously unissued

DAN JAFFE (1933- )
16."Learning About Easter And Passover" [2:00]
Originally collected in Round For One Voice, 1988
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1988
Previously unissued

AMIRI BARAKA (1934- )
17."Bang, Bang Outishly" [1:25]
18."Rhythim Blues" [ :22]
19."Shazam Doowah" [ :48]
(tks 17-19)
Originally collected in The Music: Reflections On Jazz And Blues, 1987
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1988
Previously unissued

LEONARD COHEN (1934- )
20."The Story Of Issac" [approx. 4:00]
Unpublished
From the album Songs From A Room, Columbia #9767, 1969

AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)
21."Dahomey" [2:01]
Originally collected in The Black Unicorn, 1978
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1978
Previously unissued

MARGE PIERCY (1934- )
22."Putting The Good Things Away" [2:59]
Originally collected in My Mother's Body, 1985
23."Right To Life" [4:08]
Originally collected in Circles On The Water, 1982
(tks 22-23)
Recorded in Aspen, CO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1989
Previously unissued

MARK STRAND (1934- )
24."Keeping Things Whole" [ :27]
Originally collected in Sleeping With One Eye Open, 1964
25."The Way It Is" [2:55]
Originally collected in Darker, 1970
26."The Poem" [2:24]
Unpublished
(tks 24-26)
Recorded at radio station KPCW, Park City, UT, March 1986
From the album The Untelling, Watershed Foundation #C-204, 1986

PAUL ZIMMER (1934- )
27."Zimmer Imagines Heaven" [1:55]
Originally collected in Reunions: Selected And New Poems, 1983
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1987
Previously unissued

LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936- )
28."yes Lord, he was born..." [1:42]
29."cruelty" [ :36]
(tks 28-29)
Originally collected in good woman: poems and a memoir, 1969-1980, 1987
Recorded in San Francisco for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1989
Previously unissued

Vol. 4: [TT 63:58]

CS Side 7: [TT 31:19]

DIANE WAKOSKI (1937- )
1."I Have Had To Learn To Live With My Face" [6:43]
Originally collected in The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, 1971
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1987
Previously unissued

MICHAEL S. HARPER (1938- )
2."Dear John, Dear Coltrane" [approx. 3:00]
Originally collected in Dear John, Dear Coltrane, 1970
Recorded in Saratoga Springs, NY for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air,
1980
Previously unissued

CHARLES SIMIC (1938- )
3."We were so poor..." [ :25]
4."I was stolen by the gypsies..." [ :32]
5."Everybody knows the story..." [ :35]
(tks 3-5)
Originally collected in The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems, 1989
Recorded in Aspen, CO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1990
Previously unissued

AL YOUNG (1939- )
6."Lester Leaps In" [ :55]
7."For Poets" [ :31]
8."A Dance For Militant Diletantes" [1:16]
(tks 6-8)
Originally collected in The Blues Don't Change, 1982
Recorded in Kansas City, MO, 1992
Previously unissued

JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-1996)
9."Odysseus To Telemachus" [1:36]
Originally collected in A Part Of Speech, 1980
Recorded in Washington, D.C., 1986
From the album Winter, Watershed Foundation #WTC-221, 1987

ERICA JONG (1942- )
10."Ode To My Shoes" [1:30]
Originally collected in Becoming Light: Poems New And Selected, 1991
Recorded prob. in Los Angeles, 1991
From the album Becoming Light, Dove Audio #41810, 1992

JOSEPH BRUCHAC (1942- )
11."Prayer" [ :26]
Originally collected in Flow, 1975
12."Translator's Son" [ :37]
Originally collected in Translator's Son, 1980
(tks 11-12)
Recorded in New Jersey for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1992
Previously unissued

SHARON OLDS (1942- )
13."Wonder" [1:30]
Originally collected in The Father, 1992
Recorded in New Jersey for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1992
Previously unissued

JAMES TATE (1943- )
14."The Lost Pilot" [1:50]
Originally collected in The Lost Pilot, 1967
Recorded in Amhurst, MA for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1992
Previously unissued

TESS GALLAGHER (1943- )
15."One Kiss" [1:55]
Originally collected in Moon Crossing Bridge, 1992
Recorded in New Jersey for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1992
Previously unissued

JAMES RAGAN (1944- )
16."The Tent People Of Beverly Hills" [2:00]
Originally collected in Womb-Weary, 1990
Previously unissued

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ANNE WALDMAN (1945- )
17."Uh Oh Plutonium" [3:35]
Originally collected in Makeup On Empty Space, 1984
Hyacinth Girls single #HG 001, 1982

ADRIAN LOUIS (1946- )
18."The Fine Printing On The Label Of A Bottle Of Non-Alcohol Beer"
Originally collected in Vortex Of Indian Fevers, 1995 [1:08]
19."The Sweat Lodge" [1:15]
Originally collected in Among The Dog Eaters, 1992
(tks 18-19)
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1993
Previously unissued


CS Side 8: [TT 32:39]

JUAN FELIPE HERRERA (1948- )
With Mark Daterman, guitar
20."Logan Heights & The World" [4:30]
(Music by Mark Daterman)
Originally collected in Facegames, 1987
Recorded at the Mt. Hood Reading series, Mt. Hood, OR, 1992
Previously unissued

CAROLYN FORCHÉ (1950- )
21."The Colonel" [2:22]
Originally collected in The Country Between Us, 1981
Recorded at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 1981
From the album Ourselves Or Nothing, Watershed Foundation #WTC-137, 1982

EDWARD HIRSCH (1950- )
22."Wild Gratitude" [2:46]
Originally collected in Wild Gratitude, 1986
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1991
Previously unissued

JOY HARJO (1951- )
With Poetic Justice
23."For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash" [2:20]
Originally collected in In Mad Love And War, 1990
Previously unissued

CARMEN TAFOLLA (1951- )
24."Tia Sophia" [2:53]
Originally collected in Curandera, 1983
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1991
Previously unissued

JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA (1952- )
25."This Is Number 26" [1:15]
Originally collected in Martín & Meditations On The South Valley, 1988
26."I Am Offering You This Poem" [1:13]
Originally collected in Immigrants In Our Own Land, 1979
(tks 25-26)
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1991
Previously unissued

RITA DOVE (1952- )
27."Parsley" [4:05]
Originally collected in Museum, 1983
Recorded in San Diego for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1985
Previously unissued

LUCI TAPAHONSO (1953- )
28."Raisin Eyes" [1:48]
Originally collected in A Breeze Swept Through, 1987
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1992
Previously unissued

DONALD REVELL (1954- )
29."The Children's Undercroft" [2:00]
Originally collected in The Gaza Of Winter, 1988
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1990
Previously unissued

LUIS RODRIGUEZ (1954- )
30."The Concrete River" [3:25]
31."Tia Chucha" [1:38]
(tks 30-31)
Originally collected in The Concrete River, 1991
Recorded in Kansas City, MO for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1992
Previously unissued

LI-YOUNG LEE (1957- )
32."My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud" [2:24]
Originally collected in The City In Which I Love You, 1990
Recorded in Chicago for broadcast on the radio program New Letters On The Air, 1990
Previously unissued

NOTE: T.S. Eliot was unavailable for inclusion due to licensing restrictions.

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[Credits]

Compilation Produced for Release by: REBEKAH PRESSON & DAVID McLEES
Project Supervision: TED MYERS
Research Assistance: BRUCE BERLIND, PATRICK MILLIGAN
Project Assistance: ROB COHEN, ELIZABETH PAVONE
Licensing: MARK PINKUS, STEVE POLTORAK
Remastering:
Art Direction: COCO SHINOMIYA

Special Thanks: JESSICA RENAUD & ED FOLSOM/Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, PROFESSOR LOWELL CROSS, MICHAEL B. YEATS, JOE BERK, DAVID McINTOSH

[CD Licensing]

"THE ROAD NOT TAKEN," "BIRCHES" and "THE GIFT OUTRIGHT" by Robert Frost P 1992 Harper Audio, "IF I TOLD HIM: A COMPLETED PORTRAIT OF PICASSO" by Gertrude Stein, "THE RED WHEELBARROW" and "TO ELSIE" by William Carlos Williams, "HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY (Excerpt)" by Ezra Pound, "NEXT TO OF COURSE GOD AMERICA" and "ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN" by e.e. cummings, "TO JUAN AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE" by Robert Graves, "THE OPENING OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG" by Steven Vincent Benet, "THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS," "BALLAD OF THE GYPSY" and "MULATTO" by Langston Hughes P 1980 Harper Audio, "LOVE RECOGNIZED" by Robert Penn Warren P 1980 Harper Audio, "IN MEMORY OF W.B. YEATS (Part 1)" by W.H. Auden, "I KNEW A WOMAN" and "ELEGY FOR JANE" by Theodore Roethke, "ROUGH" and "THOUGHTS DURING AN AIR RAID" by Stephen Spender, "MY SISTERS, O MY SISTERS" by May Sarton P 1987 Harper Audio, "IN OUR TIME," "DESPISALS" and "THE BALLAD OF ORANGE AND GRAPE" by Muriel Rukeyser P 1977 Harper Audio, "DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT" and "IF I WERE TICKLED BY THE RUB OF LOVE" by Dylan Thomas, "THE OLD FLAME," "SKUNK HOUR" and "EPILOGUE" by Robert Lowell P 1978 Harper Audio, "SHAME," "APOLOGY" and "LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD" by Richard Wilbur, "THE RIVER BEES" by W.S. Merwin, "A BLESSING" by James Wright, "THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW" and "ALL MY PRETTY ONES" by Anne Sexton licensed from Harper Audio.

"SO & SO RECLINING ON HER COUCH" by Wallace Stevens licensed from The 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center.

"BIRD-WITTED" by Marianne Moore courtesy of MCA Records, Inc.

"RECUERDO" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Copyright C 1922, 1950 by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and "LOVE IS NOT ALL" by Edna St. Vincent Millay Copyright C 1931, 1958 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. Used by permission of Elizabeth Barnett, literary executor.

"PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A PREMATURELY OLD MAN" C 1935 by Ogden Nash, Renewed 1963 by Ogden Nash. Used by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd.

"KING OF THE RIVER" by Stanley Kunitz P 1996 Stanley Kunitz, licensed from Stanley Kunitz.

"THE WORLD IS SO DIFFICULT TO GIVE UP...," "THIS IS THE SOLUTION, TO BE HAPPY WITH SLAUGHTER...," "HERE I AM WITH MIKE IN HAND, SHOOTING DOWN THE RAPIDS...," "I KILLED A FLY..." and "WHAT ABOUT DYING?..." from Shadowing The Ground C 1991 by David Ignatow, Wesleyan University Press, by permission of University Press of New England. P 1996 David Ignatow, licensed from David Ignatow.

"SCARS" and "IT IS" by William Stafford P 1996 William Stafford Estate, licensed from the William Stafford Estate.

"HAPPINESS" by John Ciardi P 1996 Ciardi Family Publishing Trust, licensed from the Ciardi Family Publishing Trust.

"CROSSING OVER" by William Meredith P 1996 William Meredith, licensed from William Meredith.

"SEE IT WAS LIKE THIS WHEN..." and "UNDERWEAR" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti P 1984 the Watershed Foundation, "SONG" by John Ashbery P 1989 the Watershed Foundation, "DIVING INTO THE WRECK" by Adrienne Rich P 1986 the Watershed Foundation, "THE SONG OF THE TASTE," "HOW POETRY COMES TO ME" and "WHY I TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY MACINTOSH COMPUTER" by Gary Snyder P 1989 the Watershed Foundation, "KEEPING THINGS WHOLE," "THE WAY IT IS" and "THE POEM" by Mark Strand P 1986 the Watershed Foundation, and "ODYSSEUS TO TELEMACHUS" P 1986 the Watershed Foundation, licensed from the Watershed Foundation.

"THE SECRET OF MY ENDURANCE" by Charles Bukowski P 1985 Freeway Records, licensed from Denny Bruce.

"THANKSGRIEVING" by Howard Nemerov P 1996 Howard Nemerov Estate, licensed from the Howard Nemerov Estate.

"SONNET FOR MINIMALISTS" by Mona Van Duyn P 1996 Mona Van Duyn, licensed from Mona Van Duyn.

"AMERICAN HAIKUS (Excerpt)" by Jack Kerouac controlled by Rhino Records Inc.

"MONET REFUSES THE OPERATION" by Lisel Mueller P 1996 Lisel Mueller, licensed from Lisel Mueller.

"AMERICA" by Allen Ginsberg P 1994 Allen Ginsberg, licensed from Allen Ginsberg.

"AFTER MAKING LOVE WE HEAR FOOTSTEPS" and "LAST GODS" by Galway Kinnell P 1996 Galway Kinnell, licensed from Galway Kinnell.

"PHENOMENAL WOMAN" from Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou. Copyright C 1978 by Maya Angelou. Copyright C 1995 by Random House Audio Publishing, Inc. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

"EVEN IN PARIS (Excerpt)" by Richard Howard P 1996 Richard Howard, licensed from Richard Howard.

"OMEROS" by Derek Walcott P 1996 Derek Walcott, licensed from Derek Walcott.

"DADDY" and "ARIEL" by Sylvia Plath P 1975 Credo Records, under license from Pathways Of Sound.

"THE GREATEST POEM IN THE WORLD" by David Ray P 1996 David Ray, licensed from David Ray.

"AN ODDLY LOVELY DAY ALONE" from Collected Poems by John Updike C 1993 John Updike, P 1996 John Updike, recorded by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc.

"LEARNING ABOUT EASTER AND PASSOVER" by Dan Jaffe P 1996 Dan Jaffe, licensed from Dan Jaffe.

"BANG, BANG OUTISHLY," "RHYTHIM BLUES" and "SHAZAM DOOWAH" by Amiri Baraka P 1996 Amiri Baraka, licensed from Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

"THE STORY OF ISAAC" by Leonard Cohen under license from Sony Music Special Products, a Division of Sony Music, A Group of Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

"DAHOMEY" by Audre Lorde P 1996 the Audre Lorde Estate, licensed from the Audre Lorde Estate.

"PUTTING THE GOOD THINGS AWAY" by Marge Piercy. From My Mother's Body Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright C 1984, 1985 by Marge Piercy and Middlemarsh, Inc., and "RIGHT TO LIFE" by Marge Piercy. From The Moon Is Always Female and Circles On The Water Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright C 1979, 1980 by Marge Piercy and Middlemarsh, Inc. Used by permission of the Wallace Literary Agency, Inc. P 1996 Marge Piercy, licensed from Marge Piercy.

"ZIMMER IMAGINES HEAVEN" by Paul Zimmer P 1996 Paul Zimmer, licensed from Paul Zimmer.

"YES LORD, HE WAS BORN..." and "CRUELTY" by Lucille Clifton P 1996 Lucille Clifton, licensed from BOA Editions, Ltd.

"I HAVE HAD TO LEARN TO LIVE WITH MY FACE" by Diane Wakoski P 1996 Diane Wakoski, licensed from Diane Wakoski.

"DEAR JOHN, DEAR COLTRANE" by Michael S. Harper P 1996 Michael S. Harper, licensed from Michael S. Harper.

"WE WERE SO POOR...," "I WAS STOLEN BY THE GYPSIES..." and "EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY..." by Charles Simic P 1996 Charles Simic, licensed from Charles Simic.

"LESTER LEAPS IN," "FOR POETS" and "A DANCE FOR MILITANT DILETANTES" P 1996 Al Young, licensed from Al Young.

"ODE TO MY SHOES" by Erica Jong P 1992 Dove Audio, Inc., licensed from Dove Audio, Inc.

"PRAYER" and "TRANSLATOR'S SON" by Joseph Bruchac P 1996 Joseph Bruchac, licensed from Joseph Bruchac.

"WONDER"from The Father by Sharon OldsC 1992 Sharon Olds, P 1996 Sharon Olds, recorded by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Inc<.>

"THE LOST PILOT" by James Tate P 1996 James Tate, licensed from James Tate.

"ONE KISS" by Tess Gallagher P 1996 Tess Gallagher, licensed from Tess Gallagher.

"THE TENT PEOPLE OF BEVERLY HILLS" by James Ragan P 1996 James Ragan, licensed from James Ragan.

"UH OH PLUTONIUM" by Anne Waldman P 1982 Anne Waldman, licensed from Anne Waldman.

"THE FINE PRINTING ON THE LABEL OF A BOTTLE OF NON-ALCOHOL BEER" and "THE SWEAT LODGE" by Adrian Louis P 1996 Adrian Louis, licensed from Adrian Louis.

"LOGAN HEIGHTS & THE WORLD" by Juan Felipe Herrera P 1996 Juan Felipe Herrera, licensed from Juan Felipe Herrera.

"THE COLONEL" by Carolyn Forché P 1982 the Watershed Foundation, licensed from Carolyn Forché.

"WILD GRATITUDE" by Edward Hirsch P 1996 Edward Hirsch, licensed from Edward Hirsch.

"FOR ANNA MAE PICTOU AQUASH" by Joy Harjo P 1996 Joy Harjo, licensed from Two Red Horses, Inc.

"TIA SOPHIA" by Carmen Tafolla P 1996 Carmen Tafolla, licensed from Carmen Tafolla.

"THIS IS NUMBER 26" and "I AM OFFERING YOU THIS POEM" by Jimmy Santiago Baca P 1996 Jimmy Santiago Baca, licensed from Jimmy Santiago Baca.

"PARSLEY" by Rita Dove P 1996 Rita Dove, licensed from Rita Dove.

"RAISIN EYES" by Luci Tapahonso P 1996 Luci Tapahonso, licensed from Luci Tapahonso.

"THE CHILDREN'S UNDERCROFT" by Donald Revell P 1996 Donald Revell, licensed from Donald Revell.

"THE CONCRETE RIVER" and "TIA CHUCHA" by Luis Rodriguez P 1996 Luis Rodriguez, licensed from Luis Rodriguez.

"MY FATHER IN HEAVEN IS READING OUT LOUD" by Li-Young Lee P 1996 Li-Young Lee, licensed from Li-Young Lee.

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Suggested Reading:
Like the Beat Generation before them, a new generation of young American writers has emerged from the coffee houses throughout the nation. Caffeine magazine, a Los Angeles bi-monthly, has been documenting these writings since 1992. Scream When You Burn (Incommunicado Press) is the new anthology featuring the best words from the first three years of Caffeine. Writers in this anthology include Charles Bukowski, Pam Ward, Lyn Lifshin, Rick Lupert, Sandra Mizumoto Posey, and Andrienne GreenHeart among others. For more information, call (213) 468-1250, write to P.O. Box 4231-306, Woodland Hills, CA 91365, or email poetrymag@aol.com or check out the new words (or post your own) at http://www.hallucinet.com/caffeine.

Suggested Viewing:
Be sure to watch PBS's United States Of Poetry. For

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