Spoken Arts treasury collection. Volume II [sound recording] : 100 modern American poets reading their poems.

Material type: Sound

SoundPublication details: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2007, [1969?]Description: 6 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

9781428142824
1428142827 :

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DDC classification:

811/.508 22

Poems read by their authors ; introduction and brief poet biographies read by Katherine Kellgren.Summary: The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works from the following poets: Yvor Winters, Oscar Williams, Langston Hughes, Theodore Spencer, Ogden Nash, Countee Cullen, Merrill Moore, John Holmes, Richard Eberhart, Robert Penn Warren, Stanley Kunitz, Kenneth Rexroth, W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Paul Engle, Winfield Townley Scott, Elizabeth Bishop, J.V. Cunningham, Kenneth Patchen, Brother Antoninus, Hy Sobiloff, Karl Shapiro, John Frederick Nims, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukyser, Barbara Howes, Randell Jarrell, John Berryman, Owen Dodson, Kean Garrigue, Ruth Stone, Hollis Summers, John Ciardi, Peter Viereck, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Robert Lowell.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Audiobook	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Audiobooks	Audiobooks	AV 811.508 SPO [CD]	Available		36748001725037

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Spoken Arts Treasury - Vol 2.

In container (17 cm.).

Title from container.

"Poetry"--Container.

Originally recorded: Spoken Arts, Inc., [1969?]

"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.

Compact disc.

Poems read by their authors ; introduction and brief poet biographies read by Katherine Kellgren.

The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works from the following poets: Yvor Winters, Oscar Williams, Langston Hughes, Theodore Spencer, Ogden Nash, Countee Cullen, Merrill Moore, John Holmes, Richard Eberhart, Robert Penn Warren, Stanley Kunitz, Kenneth Rexroth, W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Paul Engle, Winfield Townley Scott, Elizabeth Bishop, J.V. Cunningham, Kenneth Patchen, Brother Antoninus, Hy Sobiloff, Karl Shapiro, John Frederick Nims, Delmore Schwartz, Muriel Rukyser, Barbara Howes, Randell Jarrell, John Berryman, Owen Dodson, Kean Garrigue, Ruth Stone, Hollis Summers, John Ciardi, Peter Viereck, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Robert Lowell.

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Library Journal Review

In the second of three volumes, Recorded Books continues its remastered reissue of 100 American poets reading 464 poems, complete with short (and extremely useful) introductory biographical notes that also touch on each poet's craft and place in the literature. These notes make some fascinating points, for example, Oscar Williams understood his own poems might not survive, but that by editing crucial anthologies, he would be kept within the literary canon. The introduction to Paul Engle's work discusses his importance in founding the Iowa Writers Workshop but does not offer praise for mediocre poems. The years these poems cover-late 1940s to mid-1950s-also saw the emergence of better recording devices, permitting more advanced reproductions of readings-some live, some in studio settings. This volume also takes in some of the poets writing in the 1950s and 1960s, when the delivery of the poem became almost inseparable from the poem itself yet before performance style began to supplant craft. Thus, there are exciting recitations from Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, Brother Antoninus, Owen Dodson, and others. Recommended for academic and most public libraries.-Rochelle Ratner, formerly with Soho Weekly News, New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.