A century of poets reading their work, including Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Plath, Frost, Merwin, Sexton, Cummings, and others.

CD 1: The song of the old mother ; The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- In memory of W.B. Yeats ; A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London ; Fern Hill ; Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- The dead shall be raised incorruptible / Galway Kinnell -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- The speed of darkness / Murial Rukeyser -- The DNA molecule / May Swenson -- Poem to my son / Robert Graves -- Eighth Air Force / Randall Jarrell -- To my God in his sickness / Philip Levine -- Epistle to be left in the earth / Archibald MacLeish -- The last one / W.S. Merwin -- Divorce, thy name is woman ; Little girl, my string bean, my lovely woman / Anne Sexton -- The windy city ; Fog / Carl Sandburg. CD 2: The seafarer / William Carlos Williams -- darling! because my blood can sing ; if everything that happens can't be done / e.e. cummings -- Nature morte / Joseph Bordsky -- The road not taken ; After apple-picking / Robert Frost -- Omeros, Book 1, Chapter 1 / Derek Walcott -- What are years / Marianne Moore -- Seascape / Stephen Spender -- Skunk hour / Robert Lowell -- Tetélestai / Conrad Aiken -- If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- The thin people / Sylvia Plath -- Sirocco ; American portrait: old style / Robert Penn Warren. CD 3: Arte poetica / Pablo Neruda -- Old lovers at the ballet / May Sarton -- The groundhog / Richard Eberhart -- Litany for dictatorships / Stephen Vincent Benét -- White mane / James Agee -- Moeurs contemporaines / Ezra Pound -- The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens -- The animals in that country / Margaret Atwood -- The wasteland / T.S. Eliot.