National Poetry Month

The Caedmon Poetry Collection
A Century of Poets Reading Their Work
Author/Readers: T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, and others
Experience the greatest poets of the 20th century reading their own works. Includes T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, and more. "All are significant recordings... a treasure, a constant surprise and revelation, and an unparalleled listening experience."—AudioFile

Abridged, 3 CDs, Poetry, D3H278, 9780694522781, $29.95
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Celebrations
Rituals of Peace and Prayer
Author/Reader: Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou

Celebrate events both intimate and public with the beloved poet. In this collection of timely and timeless poems, her wisdom comes through clearly. Includes On the Pulse of Morning (read at Clinton's first inauguration), Amazing Peace, A Brave and Startling Truth, and Mother. A 2007 Grammy Award nominee. "Listening to [her] is an intimate and inspiring experience... [Her] words and voice are beautiful and affecting."—AudioFile
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Unabridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1R027, 9780739340271, $19.95
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
And Five Poems
Author/Reader: Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas had a voice like no other. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of this brilliant recording. This classic among Christmas tales is an audio treasure to be listened to again and again. Also includes: Fern Hill, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, In the White Giant's Thigh, Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait, and Ceremony After a Fire Raid. "Hearing Thomas speak [these lines] adds a magnificent melancholy... His Welsh-accented voice rises and falls... vibrant and powerful."—Publishers Weekly

Unabridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1H467, 9780060514679, $14.95
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Dickinson & Whitman: Ebb and Flow
Authors: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Readers: Nancy Wickwire and Alexander Scourby

The best-loved and most important American poets of the 19th century. These two lyric poets shared an expressive love of nature and pioneered a historic break with the traditional conventions of poetry.

Unabridged, 2 cassettes, Poetry, D20385, 9780945353850, Now $16.95 $11.02
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Essential Cummings
Author/Reader: e.e. cummings, e.e. cummings

The master of experimental and abstract poetry, e.e. cummings reads a collection of some of his finest poems. These works stir and excite, amuse and sometimes enrage. "Essential listening for those who love his work... Cummings's quizzicalintrospections on various topics are filled with his questioning and idiosyncratic imagination."—AudioFile

Audio Orig, 1 CD, Poetry, D1H693, 9780061336935, Now $12.95 $8.42
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Essential Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson, Performer: Julie Harris

This beautifully read poetry and the luminous, fascinating letters of the Belle of Amherst give us a rich portrait of the brilliant poet. Hear the rapture and despair, the beautiful and inventive language of this eloquent writer. "One can hear the affinity Harris had for the material in her calm, alluring, and focused performance."—AudioFile

Audio Orig, 1 CD, Poetry, D1H421, 9780061124211, $12.95
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Essential Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Reader: Archibald MacLeish

Although Emerson's poetry reveals that he regarded life as a tragedy, he also had a belief in humanity, a pride in human life. This collection includes many of his best-known works – including Each and All, The Problem, and Hamatreya– read by Archibald MacLeish, a distinguished poet himself. "A rare treasure... enlightening."—AudioFile

Audio Orig, 1 CD, Poetry, D1H336, 9780061663369, $12.95
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Essential Walt Whitman
Author: Walt Whitman, Reader: Ed Begley

Walt Whitman's poems celebrating the grandness of the human condition are cadenced for the voice and meant to be spoken aloud. They lack meter, but the musical effect he strove for results in eloquent poetry. Listen to some of this 19th-century writer's best and most famous poems.

Audio Orig, 1 CD, Poetry, D1H641, 9780061566417, $12.95
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