"From the archive of recorded poetry." "Contemporary recordings of poets reading their own poems, selected and arranged by the consultants in poetry in English and issued by the Library of Congress under a grant from the Bollingen Foundation."

Plato told him, My father moved through dooms of love / E.E. cummings -- Oh, lovely rock, The beaks of eagles, Ossian's grave / Robinson Jeffers -- The day, The inflatable globe, A narrative, Problem of immortality, The phoenix / Theodore Spencer -- Bells for John Whitesides' daughter, Janet waking, Here lies a lady, Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom.