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About the Editors
Elise Paschen is the author of Houses: Coasts and Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and the co-founder of "Poetry in Motion," a nationwide program that places poetry in subways and buses. She is also the editor of The New York Times best-selling Poetry Speaks to Children.
Rebekah Presson Mosby was nominated for a Grammy for her work as producer / editor of the 4CD box set, Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) and co-editor of the original Poetry Speaks. She also edited the groundbreaking Rhino Records poetry box sets, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry (1996) and Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (2000).
Poetry Speaks, Expanded |
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978-1-4022-1062-4 |
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$49.95 U.S. |
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$64.95 CAN |
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Hardcover w/ three audio CDs
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About the Book
…it speaks volumes for "Poetry Speaks" that by the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there were more.—Wall Street Journal
Now there's more.
In 2001, Poetry Speaks presented a diverse cross-section of great poets, their voices and words reaching more than 100,000 poetry lovers.
Poetry Speaks Expanded again demonstrates the power of great poetry combined with compelling audio to more fully immerse readers in the spoken word. This revised edition includes everything from the LA Times best-selling first edition the Publishers Weekly called "the definitive anthology," and adds several notable poets including James Joyce and Robert Graves, and new essays on them by some of today's best-known names.
Three audio CDs present each poet reading their work. Reviewers and booksellers suggested that "this book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years."
Expanded with more poets you can hear and read:
Robert Graves: hear "To Juan at the Winter Solstice" and "The Castle"
…and read "Ulysses," "The Blue-Fly," "Amergin's Charm," "With Her Lips Only," "A Time of Waiting", and "Return of the Goddess"
Ted Hughes: hear "The Thought-Fox" and "February 17"
…and read "Crow's First Lesson," "The Howling of Wolves," and "The Pink Wool Knitted Dress"
James Joyce: hear "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake
…and read "She Weeps Over Rahoon," "Ecce Puer," and selections from Chamber Music
Poetry Speaks Expanded adds thirty extra minutes and nearly one hundred additional pages of new poems, poets, and readings, with new essays from today's poetry luminaries, including W.S. Merwin, Paul Muldoon, and Grace Schulman.
Praise for the orginial Poetry Speaks
“This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years...The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review
What an incredible treat for hard-core poetry fans and neophytes alike! This remarkable anthology tours modern poetry's greatest works and includes short biographies of the poets with insightful commentary by some of today's most esteemed living writers. The accompanying 13 audio CDs feature incredible recordings of Tennyson, Robert Browning, e. e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, and more, reading from their own work.
—BN.com Best of 2001, Fiction and Literature
Who would ever have guessed that it is actually possible to hear Walt Whitman read his own poetry? Or Alfred Lord Tennyson? Or Robert Browning? But this remarkable coffee-table book provides those unexpected thrills on three compact discs that are included with the book itself. It includes readings by such luminaries as Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke and William Carlos Williams. And each of the 42 poets included on the discs has a chapter inside the book itself, several of his or her poems, plus an introductory essay on the poet written by some of today's finest poets (Jorie Graham, C.K. Williams, Galway Kinnell). This is a volume to delight longtime lovers of poetry and to spark new love for poetry, especially among the young.
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11/18/01 |
