Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs) by Elise Paschen *NOTE Missing CD 3

Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry -- from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Gwendolyn Brooks -- written and performed from 1892 to 1997, combining their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. The power of spoken poetry is at the heart of Poetry Speaks: poetry is a vocal art, and listening to a poem read aloud can be a transforming experience. Poetry Speaks introduces the finest work of some of the greatest poets in English, in the oral tradition of poetry. Poetry Speaks features more than 40 poets with a chapter for each containing: • The poems read by the poet on the audio CD • Additional poems for further exploration of the poet's work • A short biography and photo of each poet • Original manuscripts and letters for most of the featured poets • An original essay for each poet written by today’s most influential poets, including Seamus Heaney on W.B. Yeats, Richard Wilbur on Robert Frost, Mark Strand on Wallace Stevens, Jorie Graham on Elizabeth Bishop, Glyn Maxwell on Dylan Thomas, and Rita Dove on Melvin B. Tolson.