A Century of Recorded Poetry

These tapes are simply amazing. They have everything from a recording THOMAS EDISON made of WALT WHITMAN reading AMERICA, to ROBERT FROST reading BIRCHES, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, to modern poets like SYLVIA PLATH reading DADDY, ADRIANNE RICH reading DIVING INTO THE WRECK. There’s even some BUKOWSKI. When you hear DYLAN THOMAS’s powerful voice belt out DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, you find out he sounds sort of like O-B-1 Kenobi from star wars. E E CUMMINGS work is actually very accessible when he reads it aloud.