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[The Sounds of Poetry: a display inspired by the 18th Annual Liberal Arts Symposium Featuring Robert Pinksy]
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Click here for more even more Robert Pinksy library materials to explore... Selected Works of Representative Poets LaureateFeatured Poet: Robert Pinsky
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Gulf Music
The Want Bone
The Sounds of Poetry: a Brief Guide
Selected Poems|
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 Walking the Black Catby Charles Simic PS3569.I4725 W35 1996 Hamlet’s ghost wandering the halls of a Vegas motel, a street corner ventriloquist using passersby as dummies, and Jesus panhandling in a weed-infested Eden are just a few of the startling conceits Simic unleashes in this collection. Read more |
 The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poemsby Billy Collins PS3553.O47478 T76 2007 In this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing–themes familiar to Collins’s fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy Collins’s poetry is a window through which we see our lives as if for the first time. Read more |
The Wild Iris
What Work Is1991-2000
 Seven for luckby John Williams, text by Rita Dove M1612.W55 S4 1997 Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, former Poet Laureate of the United States, and one of our most distinguished literary figures, penned the group of poems that are the basis for this John Williams composition. Ms. Dove writes with wit and wisdom of the many phases of a woman's life, including adolescence, courting, love, pregnancy, betrayal, and renewal. Originally composed for soprano and full orchestra. Read more |
 A Part of Speechby Joseph Brodsky PG3479.4.R64 C45 1980 Brodsky's first collection to be published since he settled in the United States as an involuntary Russian exile contains restrained, sometimes humorous, sometimes epigrammatic verses marked by serious wit and an acute sense of place. |
1981-1990
 Of Dreams and Other Possibilitiescomposed by Patrice Rushen; text by Langston Hughes & Gwendolyn Brooks. M1538 .R863 O3 Text of 1st movement by Langston Hughes; text of 2nd movement by Gwendolyn Brooks. Commissioned by the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota Odyssey Commissioning Program. Read more |
 Candide: a comic operetta in two actsby Leonard Bernstein, based on the satire by Voltaire, lyrics by Richard Wilbur MP1503.B476 C3 This score incorporates the composer's final intentions regarding Candide. The engraving of this score is based on Leonard Bernstein's conducting score for his 1989 Deutsche Grammophon recording of Candide, as well as the orchestra material used in that recording, and the manuscripts of Leonard Bernstein at the Library of Congress. Read more |
1971-1980
 The Collected Poemsby Stanley Kunitz PS3521.U7 2000 The National Book Award winner celebrates a life in poetry, sharing his work published and unpublished in this single volume of his life's accomplishment. Read more |
 In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poemsby Josephine Jacobsen PS3519.A424 I5 1995 Josephine Jacobsen's distinguished career as poet and writer spans more than six decades, from the publication of her first poem at age eleven to her 1994 American Academy of the Arts Citation, which celebrated her as a recipient of "almost every major poetry award." In the Crevice of Time brings together 176 new and previously published poems by one of the most accomplished and most widely acclaimed poets of our time. Read more |
1961-1970
 Poets on Poetryby Howard Nemerov PS324 .N4 ...When asked if his work had changed in character or style, Nemerov replied in Poets on Poetry, "In style,. . . for I began and for a long time remained imitative, and poems in my first books . . . show more than traces of admired modern masters—Eliot, Auden, Stevens, [E. E.] Cummings, Yeats." Read more |
 The Road Not Taken: a Selection of Frost's Poemswith introduction & commentary by Louis Untermeyer PS3511.R94 A6 1985 With Louis Untermeyer's biographical introduction and an ongoing commentary that touches upon each poem presented here, this choice of Frost's work gives context to both the life and work of a titan of American literature. Clearly annotated and carefully arranged, The Road Not Taken is also an ideal introduction to this timeless, vitally important poetry. Read more |
1937-1960
Books
 Poems: a Selectionby Leonie Adams PS3501.D285 A6 1954 Adams' Poems: A Selection won the 1954 Bollingen Prize. In a review of the book, Louise Bogan wrote: "Poems such as 'Companions of the Morass,' 'For Harvest,' 'Grapes Making,' and 'The Runner with the Lots' spring from and are indications of a poetic endowment as deep as it is rare." |
 The Blue Estuaries: Poems, 1923-1968by Louise Bogan PS3503.O195 B5 1995 Honored, during the course of her literary career, with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for "The New Yorker" for nearly forty years. "The Blue Estuaries" contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work, fully representing a unique and distinguished contribution to modern poetry over five decades. Read more |
Scores
 The Desert Musicby Steve Reich text from poems of William Carlos Williams M1530 .R45 D4 This hour-long work, commissioned by West German Radio and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, marks a transitional period for Reich. Based in the rhythmic pulse of Music for 18 Musicians, he adds a text by William Carlos Williams (sung by a full chorus), uses the more traditional sounds of a full orchestra (strings and brass are suddenly prominent), and snatches of melody dot the musical canvas here and there. The use of vocals here looks forward to such projects as Different Trains and The Cave. If Reich is trying to encapsulate the grandeur of the American west without falling back on typical "Western" tropes, he does so successfully. Read more |
 Phaedra: Dramatic Cantataby Benjamin Britten, words from a verse translation of Racine's Phèdre by Robert Lowell. M1613 B75 P43 Phaedra Op. 93 is a cantata for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by Benjamin Britten. It was the composer's last vocal work, written in 1975 and first performed by Janet Baker at the Aldeburgh Festival on 16 June 1976. Britten assembled the libretto from parts of a translation of Racine's Phèdre by Robert Lowell. The work takes around 16 minutes to perform. Read more |