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100 Great Poems - Classic Poets & Beatnik Freaks

Various Artists

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Released: Jan 2012
Label: W.O.W. - Words of Wisdom Records
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    Next to of Course God America
    Next to of Course God America
    E.E. Cummings
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    Ballad of the Gypsy
    Ballad of the Gypsy
    Langston Hughes
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    The Road Not Taken
    The Road Not Taken
    Robert Frost
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    America
    America
    Walt Whitman
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    Recuerdo
    Recuerdo
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Logan Heights and the World
    Logan Heights and the World
    Juan Felipe Herrera
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    The Secret of My Endurance
    The Secret of My Endurance
    Charles Bukowski
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    The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg
    The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg
    Steven Vincent Benet
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    Love Recognized
    Love Recognized
    Robert Penn Warren
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    2:58
    Cities of the Red Night
    Cities of the Red Night
    William S. Burroughs
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    American Haikus (Excerpt)
    American Haikus (Excerpt)
    Jack Kerouac
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    Lester Leaps In
    Lester Leaps In
    Various Artists
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    1:37
    Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    Dylan Thomas
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    Monet Refuses the Operation
    Monet Refuses the Operation
    Lisel Mueller
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    The Colonel
    The Colonel
    Carolyn Forche
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    Ode to My Shoes
    Ode to My Shoes
    Erica Jong
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    The Old Flame
    The Old Flame
    Robert Lowell
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    The Children's Undercroft
    The Children's Undercroft
    Donald Revell
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    2:33
    Dear John, Dear Coltrane
    Dear John, Dear Coltrane
    Michael Harper
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    Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
    Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
    David Ignatow
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    Uh Oh Plutonium
    Uh Oh Plutonium
    Anne Waldman
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    Scars
    Scars
    William Stafford
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    The Lake Isle of Innisfree
    The Lake Isle of Innisfree
    William Butler Yeats
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    My Sisters, O My Sisters
    My Sisters, O My Sisters
    May Sarton
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    So and So Reclining On Her Couch
    So and So Reclining On Her Couch
    Wallace Stevens
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    My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
    My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
    Li-Young Lee
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    In Our Time
    In Our Time
    Muriel Rukeyser
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    It Is
    It Is
    William Stafford
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    Birches
    Birches
    Robert Frost
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    In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)
    In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)
    W.H. Auden
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    Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
    Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
    Richard Wilbur
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    Despisals
    Despisals
    Muriel Rukeyser
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    If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love
    If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love
    Dylan Thomas
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    I Am Offering You This Poem
    I Am Offering You This Poem
    Jimmy Santiago Baca
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    We Were So Poor...
    We Were So Poor...
    Charles Simic
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    Junky Relations
    Junky Relations
    William S. Burroughs
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    This Is the Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...
    This Is the Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...
    David Ignatow
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    Bird-Witted
    Bird-Witted
    Marianne Moore
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    Tia Chucha
    Tia Chucha
    Luis Rodriquez
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    I Killed a Fly...
    I Killed a Fly...
    David Ignatow
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    Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man
    Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man
    Ogden Nash
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    Epilogue
    Epilogue
    Robert Lowell
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    Wonder
    Wonder
    Sharon Olds
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    Prayer
    Prayer
    Joseph Bruchac
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    The Negro Speaks of Rivers
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers
    Langston Hughes
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    I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...
    I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...
    Charles Simic
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    Elegy for Jane
    Elegy for Jane
    Theodore Roethke
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    The Song of the Old Mother
    The Song of the Old Mother
    William Butler Yeats
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    Sonnet for Minimalists
    Sonnet for Minimalists
    Mona Van Duyn
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    This Is Number 26
    This Is Number 26
    Jimmy Santiago Baca
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    What About Dying?...
    What About Dying?...
    David Ignatow
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    King of the River
    King of the River
    Various Artists
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    Mulatto
    Mulatto
    Langston Hughes
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    Odysseus to Telemachus
    Odysseus to Telemachus
    Joseph Brodsky
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    The Fine Printing On the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol...
    The Fine Printing On the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer
    Adrian Louis
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    Crossing Over
    Crossing Over
    William Meredith
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    Skunk Hour
    Skunk Hour
    Robert Lowell
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    Wild Gratitude
    Wild Gratitude
    Edward Hirsch
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    For Poets
    For Poets
    Various Artists
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    Shame
    Shame
    Richard Wilbur
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    To Juan At the Winter Solstice
    To Juan At the Winter Solstice
    Robert Graves
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    Berck-Plage
    Berck-Plage
    Sylvia Plath
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    Translator's Son
    Translator's Son
    Joseph Bruchac
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    To Elsie
    To Elsie
    William Carlos Williams
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    Everybody Knows the Story...
    Everybody Knows the Story...
    Charles Simic
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    Rough
    Rough
    Stephen Spender
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    Love Is Not All
    Love Is Not All
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Parsley
    Parsley
    Various Artists
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    The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...
    The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...
    David Ignatow
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    For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
    For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
    Joy Harjo
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    I Knew a Woman
    I Knew a Woman
    Theodore Roethke
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    Winter
    Winter
    Esther A. Morley
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    Last Gods
    Last Gods
    Various Artists
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    Song
    Song
    John Ashbery
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    The Tent People of Beverly Hills
    The Tent People of Beverly Hills
    James Ragan
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    Leaving Early
    Leaving Early
    Sylvia Plath
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    Happiness
    Happiness
    John Ciardi
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    The Sweat Lodge
    The Sweat Lodge
    Adrian Louis
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    After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
    After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
    Various Artists
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    Tia Sophia
    Tia Sophia
    Carmen Tafolla
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    Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
    Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
    E.E. Cummings
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    A Dance for Militant Diletantes
    A Dance for Militant Diletantes
    Various Artists
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    The Red Wheelbarrow
    The Red Wheelbarrow
    William Carlos Williams
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    Underwear
    Underwear
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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    America
    America
    Allen Ginsberg
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    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt)
    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt)
    Ezra Pound
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    Raisin Eyes
    Raisin Eyes
    Luci Tapahonso
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    The Gift Outright
    The Gift Outright
    Robert Frost
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    Thoughts During an Air Raid
    Thoughts During an Air Raid
    Stephen Spender
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    One Kiss
    One Kiss
    Tess Gallagher
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    The Ballad of Orange and Grape
    The Ballad of Orange and Grape
    Muriel Rukeyser
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    I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
    I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
    Diane Wakoski
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    The Lost Pilot
    The Lost Pilot
    James Tate
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    Clem Snide
    Clem Snide
    William S. Burroughs
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    The Concrete River
    The Concrete River
    Luis Rodriquez
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    Thanksgrieving
    Thanksgrieving
    Howard Nemerov
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    If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Picasso)
    If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Picasso)
    Gertrude Stein
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    See It Was Like This When...
    See It Was Like This When...
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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    The Seasons
    The Seasons
    Esther A. Morley
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    Apology
    Apology
    Richard Wilbur