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Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.509
EAN: 9781570717208
ISBN: 1570717206
Label: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Manufacturer: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Number Of Items: 10
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: October 01, 2001
Publisher: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Studio: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
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Editorial Review:
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks.The power of spoken poetry is at the heart of Poetry Speaks. Poetry is a vocal art, an art meant to be read aloud. Listening to a poem read aloud can be a transforming experience. Poetry Speaks not only introduces the finest work from some of the greatest poets who ever lived, it reintroduces the oral tradition of poetry.Poetry Speaks features over 40 poets in chapters each containing:
⢠The poems that are read by the poet on the audio CD
⢠Additional poems in print form to allow the reader to further explore the poet
⢠A short biography and photo of each poet
⢠Original manuscripts and letters for most of the featured poets
⢠An original essay for each poet written by todayâs most influential poets, a veritable Whoâs Who of poetry, including: Seamus Heaney on W.B. Yeats; Richard Wilbur on Robert Frost; Mark Strand on Wallace Stevens; Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop; Glyn Maxwell on Dylan Thomas; and Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson.Poetry Speaks-combining the talents of great poets past and living, their words written and spoken-is the most ambitious, comprehensive and innovative poetry project to be published in years, and is sure to be the model for collections to come.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath
Once in every 100 years a book is created which captures, both in written and spoken word, the ongoing development of an art form. Poetry Speaks is one such book. Glancing at its cover and size, some people will conclude it to be a 'coffee table book', impressive to look at but hardly ever read. For those persons whoread the smaller print: Hear Great Poets Read their Work from Tennyson to Plath, they experience a pregnant pause ..'Tennyson to Plath'...Tennyson?? It is then book's pages have called ... Read More
Rating: - Poetry Speaks
Fantastic short and to the point essays about the greats of poetry along with the ability to hear them read in their own voices - invaluable asset to the serious poet or poetry fan.
Rating: - History through an iPod
The Poetry Speaks collection features works and readings by 42 of the greatest poets ever.
The book itself is rather weighty (literally), but the essays and poems themselves are organized in such a way as to make even the non-poet appreciate them.
The one complaint I have about the collection is the narrator's unbearable way of trailing off mid-sentence. The "introductions" to the poets and their works were bearable enough--- as I said, the book is very user friendly and is ... Read More
Rating: - I thank my friend for giving me this extraordinary gift
What a joy it is to see/read poems and be able to hear the poets read the poems to me, the reader. Poetry is breath and life and as the poet reads, and I read back, the exoerience between the artist and the audience is a unity.
When PBS ran the poetry series, Bill Moyers talked about how when we read a poem from another it's like our breath echoing theirs.
I feel this when I listent to these CDs and read the poems.
We all need more poetry, but we need more poetry ... Read More
Rating: - Poetry inspires poetry
The poets in this volume were listed in another review. I am here simply copying the list. Lord Tennyson; Robert Browning; Walt Whitman; William Butler Yeats; Gertrude Stein; Robert Frost; Carl Sandburg; Wallace Stevens; William Carlos Williams; Ezra Pound; H.D.; Robinson Jeffers; John Crowe Ransom; T.S. Eliot; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Dorothy Parker; e.e. Cummings; Louise Bogan; Melvin B. Tolson; Laura Riding Jackson; Langston Hughes; Ogden Nash; W.H. Auden; Louis MacNeice; Theodore Roethke; Elizabeth Bishop; ... Read More
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