Rev. ed. of: Poetry speaks, 2001. Includes index.

Ulysses / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Tithonus / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) -- My last Duchess -- Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Meeting at night / Robert Browning (1812-1889) -- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Bivouac on a mountain side / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Last invocation / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Second coming / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Among school children / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Crazy Jane on the day of judgment / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- If I told him / Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- To earthward / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Come in / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Fog / Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Fabliau of Florida / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Bantams in Pine-Woods / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Thirteen ways of looking at a Blackbird / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- Chamber music II / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Chamber music X / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Chamber music XVIII / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- She weeps over Rahoon / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Ecce Puer / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- Spring and all / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Sort of a song / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- River-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- In a station of the Metro / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Garden / H.D. (1886-1961) -- Orchard / H.D. (1886-1961) -- Helen / H.D. (1886-1961) -- Oread / H.D. (1886-1961) -- Hurt Hawks / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Purse-Seine / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Carmel Point / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) -- Painted head / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Dead boy / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- Journey of the Magi / T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Burnt Norton from Four Quartets / T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- News item / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- Pig's-eye view of literature / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- Lady's reward / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- In just / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Love is a place / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- May I feel said he / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Pity this busy monster / E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Ulysses / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- Return of the Goddess / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- Amergin's charm / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- With her lips only / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- Time of waiting / Robert Graves (1895-1985) Medusa / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Daemon -- Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Sleeping fury / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Lambda / Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) -- O vocables of love / Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) -- Take hands / Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) -- I, too / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Good morning / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Luck / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Trouble with women is men / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- Laments for a dying language / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- O where are you going? / W. H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Funeral blues / W. H. Auden (1907-1973) -- As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden (1907-1973) -- Bagpipe music / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) -- British Museum Reading Room / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) -- Star-gazer / Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) -- Sloth / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- In a dark time / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Map / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Armadillo / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- At Truro / May Swenson (1913-1989) -- Orbiter 5 shows how Earth looks from the moon / May Swenson (1913-1989) -- July 4th / May Swenson (1913-1989) -- Woods at night / May Swenson (1913-1989) -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- Homage to the Empress of the Blues / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- Words in the mourning time / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- From Letter to the front / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) -- Ballad of Orange and Grape / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) -- Passing remark / William Stafford (1914-1993) -- Saint Matthew and all / William Stafford (1914-1993) -- Report to Crazy Horse / William Stafford (1914-1993) -- 90 North / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- Next day / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) -- From the Dream Songs / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- "Sole Watchman" from Eleven Addresses to the Lord / John Berryman (1914-1972) -- And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas (19141-1953) -- In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas (19141-1953) -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas (19141-1953) -- "To speak of woe that is in marriage" / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- For the Union dead / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Epilogue / Robert Lowell (1917-1977) -- Boy died in my alley / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Speech to the young / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Structure of Rime I / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) -- Sentinels / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) -- 7th chorus from Orizaba 210 Blues / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) -- from Biographical Resume, Fall 1957 / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) -- 99th chorus from Mexico City Blues / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) -- 114th chorus from Mexico City Blues / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) -- Rimbaud / Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) -- Whitson Weddings / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- Wild oats / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- This be the verse / Philip Larkin (1922-1985) -- Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) -- Talking to grief / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) -- Woman alone / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) -- America / Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) -- Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Poem (Hate is only one of many responses) / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Day lady died / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Her kind / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- For my lover, returning to his wife / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- Rumpelstiltskin / Anne Sexton (1928-1974) -- Howling of wolves / Ted Hughes (1930-1998) -- Crow's first lesson / Ted Hughes (1930-1998) -- Pink wool knitted dress / Ted Hughes (1930-1998) -- Hard Rock returns to prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane / Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) -- Dark Prophecy: I sing of shine / Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) -- Violent space / Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) -- Tulips / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Morning song / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- I am vertical / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Disc 1. From "The bugle song" -- From The charge of the light brigade -- How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix -- From America -- Yeats on "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" -- Lake Isle of Innisfree -- Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 -- Christian Berard -- She bowed to her brother / Oven bird -- Road not taken -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening -- Nothing gold can stay -- Silken tent -- Grass -- cool tombs -- 107 from The People, Yes -- So-and-so reclining on her couch -- Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself -- From Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake -- Queen-Anne's-Lace -- To Elsie -- Red wheelbarrow -- Cantico del sole -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -- XLV from the Cantos -- From Helen in Egypt -- Day is a poem (September 19, 1939) -- Oh, lovely rock -- Captain Carpenter -- Bells for John Whiteside's daughter -- Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock -- La Figlia Che Piange. Disc 2. Recuerdo -- I shall forget you presently, my dear -- Childhood is the kingdom were nobody dies -- One perfect rose -- Resume -- Afternoon -- From anyone lived in a pretty how town -- As freedom is a breakfastfood -- Castle -- To Juan at the Winter solstice -- Blue-fly -- Dream -- Song for the last act -- Ex-judge at the bar -- Dark symphony -- Death as death -- Nothing so far -- Negro speaks of rivers -- Mother to Son -- Weary blues -- Harlem -- I do, I will, I have -- I must tell you about my novel -- In memory of W. B. Yeats -- Musee des Beaux Arts -- If I could tell you -- Conversation -- Meeting point -- My Papa's waltz -- Waking -- I knew a woman -- Fish -- From Crusoe in England -- Question -- Watch -- Those winter Sundays -- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) -- Night feeding -- Poem as mask -- Waiting for Icarus. Disc 3. Star in the hills -- Traveling through the dark -- Death of the Ball Turret Gunner -- Selle im Raum -- Ball poem -- 4 from the Dream Songs -- 22 from the Dream Songs -- Fern Hill -- Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred -- Skunk hour -- Home after three months away -- Song in the front yard -- Kitchenette building -- We real cool -- Poetry, a natural thing -- Often I am permitted to return to a meadow -- MacDougal Street Blues: Canto Uno -- From Book of Haikus -- Places, loved ones -- Old fools -- Secret -- Her sadness -- From Howl -- Supermarket in California -- Ave Maria -- Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) -- Truth the dead know -- From the Operation -- Thought-fox -- February 17 -- Idea of ancestry -- Belly song -- Daddy -- Lady Lazarus.