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1 America Walt Whitman :37 2 The Lake Isle of Innisfree W.B. Yeats 1:09 3 The Song of the Old Mother W.B. Yeats :51 4 The Road Not Taken Robert Frost 1:03 5 Birches Robert Frost 3:03 6 If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso Gertrude Stein :53 7 So & So Reclining on Her Couch Wallace Stevens 3:37 8 The Red Wheelbarrow Williams, William Carlos 2:10 9 To Elsie Williams, William Carlos :15 10 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [excerpt] Ezra Pound 2:32 11 Bird-Witted Marianne Moore 4:57 12 Recuerdo Saint Vincent Milla ... 2:15 Performed by: Saint Vincent Millay, Edna 13 Next of Course God America E.E. Cummings 1:26 14 Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town E.E. Cummings 1:11 15 To Juan at the Winter Solstice Robert Graves :59 16 The Openings of the Battle of Gettysburg Benet, Steven Vincent 3:39 17 The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 2:21 18 Ballad of the Gypsy Langston Hughes 3:50 19 Mulatto Langston Hughes :49 20 Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man Ogden Nash :52 21 Love Recognized Warren, Robert Penn 1:37 22 King of the River Stanley Kunitz 2:03 23 In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Pt. 1 W.H. Auden 1:14 24 I Knew a Woman Theodore Roethke 1:46 25 Elegy for Jane Theodore Roethke 1:13 26 Rough Stephen Spender :53 27 Thoughts During an Air Raid Stephen Spender 1:32 28 My Sisters, O My Sisters May Sarton 2:57 29 In Our Time Muriel Rukeyser :21 30 Despisals Muriel Rukeyser 1:34 31 The Ballad of Orange and Grape Muriel Rukeyser 2:44 32 World Is So Difficutl to Give up... David Ignatow :23 33 This Is the Solution, to Be Happy With Slaughter... David Ignatow :19 34 Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids... David Ignatow :38 35 I Killed a Fly... David Ignatow :29 36 What About Dying?... David Ignatow :50 37 Scars William Stafford :44 38 It Is William Stafford :40 39 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas 1:37 40 If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love Dylan Thomas 3:17 41 Happiness John Ciardi 1:48 42 The Old Flame Robert Lowell 1:59 43 Skunk Hour Robert Lowell 2:25 44 Epilogue Robert Lowell 1:25 45 Crossing Over William Meredith 2:16 46 See It Was Like This When... Lawrence Ferlinghetti :41 47 Underwear Lawrence Ferlinghetti 3:32 48 The Secret of My Endurance Charles Bukowski 2:16 49 Thanksgrieving howard Nemerov 1:28 50 Sonnet for Minimalists Mona VanDuyn :43 51 Shame Richard Wilbur 1:48 52 Apology Richard Wilbur :36 53 Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur 1:54 54 American Haikus [excerpt] Jack Kerouac, Al Cohn ... 6:08 Performed by: Jack Kerouac, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims 55 Monet Refuses the Operation Lisel Mueller 2:28 56 America Allen Ginsberg 8:45 57 Song John Ashbery 1:27 58 After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 1:28 59 Last Gods Galway Kinnell 2:00 60 The River Bees W.S. Merwin 1:18 61 A Blessing James Wright 1:49 62 The Truth the Dead Know Anne Sexton 1:41 63 All My Pretty Ones Anne Sexton 3:27 64 Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou 2:06 65 Even in Paris [excerpt] Richard Howard 6:28 66 Diving into the Woods Adrienne Rich 4:02 67 Omeros [excerpt] Derek Walcott 3:01 68 The Song of the Taste Gary Snyder :58 69 How Poetry Comes to Me Gary Snyder :17 70 Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer Gary Snyder 1:29 71 Daddy Sylvia Plath 3:41 72 Ariel Sylvia Plath 1:02 73 The Greatest Poem in the World David Ray 1:20 74 An Oddly Lovely Day Alone John Updike 2:09 75 Learning About Easter and Passover Dan jaffe 2:09 76 Bang, Bang Outishly Amiri Baraka 1:28 77 Rhythim Blues Amiri Baraka :23 78 Shazam Doowah Amiri Baraka :50 79 The Story of Issac Leonard Cohen 3:36 80 Dahomey Audre Lorde 2:08 81 Putting the Good Things Away Marge Piercy 3:02 82 Right to Life Marge Piercy 4:08 83 Keeping Things Whole Mark Strand :29 84 The Way It Is Mark Strand 3:03 85 The Poem Mark Strand 2:30 86 Zimmer Imagines Heaven Paul Zimmer 1:58 87 Yes Lord, He Was Born... Lucille Clifton 1:46 88 Cruelty Lucille Clifton :37 89 I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face Diane Wakoski 6:42 90 Dear John, Dear Coltrane Harper, Michael S. 2:33 91 We Were So Poor... Charles Simic :30 92 I Was Stolen by the Gypsies... Charles Simic :35 93 Everybody Knows the Story Charles Simic :40 94 Lester Leaps In Al Young 1:07 95 For Poets Al Young :41 96 A Dance for Militant Dilettantes Al Young 1:29 97 Odysseus to Telemachsu Joseph Brodsky 1:40 98 Ode to My Shoes Erica Jong 1:52 99 Prayer Joseph Bruchac :30 100 Translator's Son Joseph Bruchac :43 101 Wonder Sharon Olds 1:37 102 The Lost Pilot James Tate 1:55 103 One Kiss Tess Gallagher 1:54 104 The Tent People of Beverly Hills james Ragan 2:49 105 Uh Oh Plutonium Anne Waldman 3:13 106 The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer Adrian Louis 1:29 107 The Sweat Lodge Adrian Louis 1:08 108 Logan Heights & The World Herrera, Juan Felipe 4:34 109 The Colonel Carolyn Forche 2:43 110 Wild Gratitude Edward Hirsch 2:55 111 For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Joy Harjo 4:14 112 Tia Sophia Carmen Tafolla 3:10 113 This Is Number 26 Baca, Jimmy Santiago 1:24 114 I Am Offering You This Poem Baca, Jimmy Santiago 1:21 115 Parsley Rita Dove 4:14 116 Raisin Eyes Luci Tapahonso 1:42 117 The Children's Undercroft Donald Revell 1:58 118 The Concrete River Luis Rodriguez 3:33 119 Tia Chucha Luis Rodriguez 1:48 120 My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud Lee, Li Young 2:26

The audience for the four-CD box set In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry is limited, but for those that want to delve deep into this collection, which features poets reading their own work and there are over 120 poems included, will find this immensely rewarding. Beginning with an 1890 recording of Walt Whitman reading "America," the set runs through many of the greatest poets of the next 100 years, who all have representative, if not their most famous, poems included. There are some omissions ? T.S. Eliot was not included, for instance ? but there has never been a set like this compiled before, nor is it likely to happen again. In their Own Voices is a treasure for poetry and spoken word devotees.

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