Poetic License - 100 Poems/100 Performers, Pt. 2
Various Artists
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Musical Interlude - Beauty's Rose | Glen Roven | 0:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"The Walrus and the Carpenter" By Lewis Carroll | Jason Alexander | 4:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Vespers" By A.A. Milne | Cynthia Nixon | 1:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Psalm Concerning the Castle" By Denise Levertov | Peter Friedman | 2:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Poison-Tester" By Shel Silverstein | Matthew Schechter | 0:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"A Little Tooth" By Thomas Lux | Alan Campbell | 0:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"You Are Old, Father William" By Lewis Carroll | Amanda Green | 1:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Nap Taker" By Shel Silverstein | Ramona Mallory | 2:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Blue Football" By Peter Cook | Tony Walton | 4:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Musical Interlude - Thereby Hangs a Tale | Glen Roven | 0:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"A Dog Named Bodhisattva" By Taylor Mali | Cady Huffman | 3:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Bottom's Dream" By William Shakespeare | Gregory Jbara | 1:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"New Yorkers" By Edward Field | Paige Davis | 0:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Self-Improvement" By Tony Hoagland (Abridged) | Daniel Okulitch | 1:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Beautiful Woman" By A.R. Ammons | Michael Minarik | 0:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"My Last Duchess" By Robert Browning | Charles Busch | 4:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Grosz" By Arnold Weinstein (Abridged) | Lauren Flanigan | 3:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Sun and Fun" By John Betjeman | Edward Hibbert | 1:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Life Story" By Tennessee Williams | Moises Kaufman | 2:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" By Anne Sexton | Peter Paige | 1:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Song of a Hopeful Heart" By Dorothy Parker | Dean Pitchford | 1:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Die While You Are Alive" By Shido Bunan | Sam Robards | 0:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Afternoon In School - The Last Lesson" By D.H. Lawrence | Tom McGowan | 1:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Musical Interlude - Sound and Fury | Glen Roven | 0:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Annabel Lee" By Edgar Allan Poe | Donald Corren | 3:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Excerpt) | John Rubinstein | 3:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Ulysses" By Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Chris Sarandon | 5:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Musical Interlude - A Dish for the Gods | Glen Roven | 0:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Myth" By Muriel Rukeyser | Francesca Faridany | 0:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"An Ancient Gesture" By Edna St. Vincent Millay | Michael Learned | 1:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Paradise Lost (Eve)" By John Milton | Veanne Cox | 3:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Mary" By William Blake | Nancy Anderson | 3:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"To His Coy Mistress" By Andrew Marvell | Guy Paul | 2:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Job Application" By Meryn Cadell | Donna Lynne Champlin | 1:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"She Lived" By Lucille Clifton | Lynn Sherr | 0:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"Love Song" By Dorothy Parker | Beth Howland | 1:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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"A Prayer for My Daughter" By W.B. Yeats | Maria Tucci | 4:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 37 Songs |
Customer Reviews
A Must Have!!!
This album is a must have, whether you are a poetry aficionado or if you've never read/heard a poem in your life (or if you fall somewhere in between). I had seen some publicity for the cd and was intrigued...many of my favorite performers reading their favorite poetry? How can you go wrong? So I purchased it, and was blown away! Wonderful poems, incredible readers...brilliantly entertaining and absolutely top notch. In other words, I HIGHLY recommend this album to all!
Give these CDs to those you love. It will change their lives.
Poetry, the most ancient literary art, comes alive now through the most modern of technologies. Nothing beats the sound of the human voice, and nothing reminds us so beautifully of the music as well as the words of the poem as the variety of voices assembled on these discs. The performers on this compilation come in all sizes and shapes and sounds, as readers and reciters of poetry must be. Listeners will be delighted to discover poems they have not heard before. They will be astonished to hear, as if for the first time, old chestnuts that burst into bloom again through new and different intonations. Best of all, they will be reminded of poems they once knew but have forgotten. Give these cds to everyone you love, especially to those who think they don’t like poetry. You will change their lives.”
Willard Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University; editor-in-chief of The Southwest Review; scholar of poetry; author, most recently of "Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness.
This is the best of the best, read by the best of the best. I plan on listening to this CD every day
When I was an undergraduate, an English professor said, in passing, a poem a day keeps the doctor away. He meant, I assume, that being regularly exposed to the best that has been thought and written is a universal medicine. This collection helps bring poetry off the page and back into the ear, where it belongs, and hearing it read with such skill is a constant revelation. I have not found myself ever, for instance, since I was forced to in college, deciding to sit down and read Tennyson or Milton, but hearing them read has made me realize what I've been missing. This is the best of the best, read by the best of the best. I plan on listening to this CD every day on my commute and saving a bundle on my mental health bills.
Tom Lutz's books include Doing Nothing, A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America, Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears; American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History; and Cosmopolitan Vistas.
