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100 Great Poems - Classic Poets & Beatnik Freaks
VARIOUS ARTISTS
100 SONGS • 3 HOURS AND 26 MINUTES • JAN 01 2012
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Next to of Course God America
E.E. Cummings
00:59
2
Ballad of the Gypsy
Langston Hughes
00:52
3
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
01:03
4
America
Walt Whitman
00:37
5
Recuerdo
Edna St. Vincent Millay
01:26
6
Logan Heights and the World
Juan Felipe Herrera
04:35
7
The Secret of My Endurance
Charles Bukowski
02:16
8
The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg
Steven Vincent Benet
03:50
9
Love Recognized
Robert Penn Warren
01:14
10
Cities of the Red Night
William S. Burroughs
02:58
11
American Haikus (Excerpt)
Jack Kerouac
06:08
12
Lester Leaps In
Al Young
01:07
13
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
01:37
14
Monet Refuses the Operation
Lisel Mueller
02:28
15
The Colonel
Carolyn Forche
02:43
16
Ode to My Shoes
Erica Jong
01:52
17
The Old Flame
Robert Lowell
01:59
18
The Children's Undercroft
Donald Revell
01:58
19
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
Michael Harper
02:33
20
Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
David Ignatow
00:38
21
Uh Oh Plutonium
Anne Waldman
03:13
22
Scars
William Stafford
00:44
23
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
01:09
24
My Sisters, O My Sisters
May Sarton
02:57
25
So and So Reclining On Her Couch
Wallace Stevens
02:10
26
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
Li-Young Lee
02:26
27
In Our Time
Muriel Rukeyser
00:21
28
It Is
William Stafford
00:40
29
Birches
Robert Frost
03:02
30
In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)
W.H. Auden
01:49
31
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Richard Wilbur
01:54
32
Despisals
Muriel Rukeyser
01:34
33
If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love
Dylan Thomas
03:17
34
I Am Offering You This Poem
Jimmy Santiago Baca
01:21
35
We Were So Poor...
Charles Simic
00:30
36
Junky Relations
William S. Burroughs
01:59
37
This Is the Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...
David Ignatow
00:19
38
Bird-Witted
Marianne Moore
02:15
39
Tia Chucha
Luis Rodriquez
01:48
40
I Killed a Fly...
David Ignatow
00:29
41
Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man
Ogden Nash
02:03
42
Epilogue
Robert Lowell
01:25
43
Wonder
Sharon Olds
01:37
44
Prayer
Joseph Bruchac
00:30
45
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes
00:49
46
I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...
Charles Simic
00:35
47
Elegy for Jane
Theodore Roethke
01:13
48
The Song of the Old Mother
William Butler Yeats
00:51
49
Sonnet for Minimalists
Mona Van Duyn
00:43
50
This Is Number 26
Jimmy Santiago Baca
01:24
51
What About Dying?...
David Ignatow
00:50
52
King of the River
Stanley Kunitz
03:20
53
Mulatto
Langston Hughes
01:37
54
Odysseus to Telemachus
Joseph Brodsky
01:40
55
The Fine Printing On the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer
Adrian Louis
01:29
56
Crossing Over
William Meredith
02:15
57
Skunk Hour
Robert Lowell
02:25
58
Wild Gratitude
Edward Hirsch
02:55
59
For Poets
Al Young
00:41
60
Shame
Richard Wilbur
01:49
61
To Juan At the Winter Solstice
Robert Graves
02:21
62
Berck-Plage
Sylvia Plath
06:28
63
Translator's Son
Joseph Bruchac
00:43
64
To Elsie
William Carlos Williams
02:32
65
Everybody Knows the Story...
Charles Simic
00:39
66
Rough
Stephen Spender
00:53
67
Love Is Not All
Edna St. Vincent Millay
01:12
68
Parsley
Rita Dove
04:14
69
The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...
David Ignatow
00:23
70
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
Joy Harjo
04:14
71
I Knew a Woman
Theodore Roethke
01:46
72
Winter
Esther A. Morley
01:12
73
Last Gods
Galway Kinnell
02:00
74
Song
John Ashbery
01:27
75
The Tent People of Beverly Hills
James Ragan
02:49
76
Leaving Early
Sylvia Plath
02:26
77
Happiness
John Ciardi
01:48
78
The Sweat Lodge
Adrian Louis
01:08
79
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Galway Kinnell
01:28
80
Tia Sophia
Carmen Tafolla
03:10
81
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
E.E. Cummings
03:39
82
A Dance for Militant Diletantes
Al Young
01:29
83
The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
00:15
84
Underwear
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
03:32
85
America
Allen Ginsberg
08:45
86
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt)
Ezra Pound
04:57
87
Raisin Eyes
Luci Tapahonso
01:42
88
The Gift Outright
Robert Frost
00:53
89
Thoughts During an Air Raid
Stephen Spender
01:32
90
One Kiss
Tess Gallagher
01:55
91
The Ballad of Orange and Grape
Muriel Rukeyser
02:44
92
I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
Diane Wakoski
06:42
93
The Lost Pilot
James Tate
01:55
94
Clem Snide
William S. Burroughs
04:57
95
The Concrete River
Luis Rodriquez
03:33
96
Thanksgrieving
Howard Nemerov
01:28
97
If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Picasso)
Gertrude Stein
03:37
98
See It Was Like This When...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
00:42
99
The Seasons
Esther A. Morley
01:30
100
Apology
Richard Wilbur
00:36
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