Literature Aloud: Classic and Contemporary Stories, Poems, and Selected Scenes

Other by Michael Mayer

Released 2007

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CD 1
1
Eveline
James Joyce read by Gabriel Byrne
11:22
2
Girl
Jamaica Kincaid
3:50
3
A&P
John Updike
16:51
4
Nighttime Fires
Regina Barreca
1:56
5
The Fish
Elizabeth Bishop read by Randall Jarrell
3:46
6
Snowbanks North of the House
Robert Bly
1:39
7
The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks
2:05
8
We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks
2:02
9
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E. E. Cummings
0:57
10
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
Emily Dickinson read by Glenda Jackson
0:52
11
I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died
Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky
0:45
12
Presentiment Is That Long Shadow on the Lawn
Emily Dickinson read by Meryl Streep
0:17
13
There's a Certain Slant of Light
Emily Dickinson read by Sharon Stone
0:38
14
There's a Certain Slant of Light
Emily Dickinson read by Julie Harris
0:53
15
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures
Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky
0:29
16
What Soft—Cherubic Creatures
Emily Dickinson read by Julie Harris
0:33
17
Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
Emily Dickinson read by Robert Pinsky
0:25
18
The Flea
John Donne read by Richard Burton
1:21
19
The Sun Rising
John Donne read by Richard Burton
1:31
20
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot
8:29
21
The Colonel
Carolyn Forché
3:40
22
Acquainted With the Night
Robert Frost
0:45
23
After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost
1:56
24
Birches
Robert Frost
3:02
25
Mending Wall
Robert Frost
2:13
CD 2
1
Letter With No Address
Donald Hall
4:31
2
The Dover Bitch
Anthony Hecht
1:39
3
The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill
Judy Page Heitzman
1:06
4
Dream Boogie
Langston Hughes
0:30
5
Dream Variations
Langston Hughes
0:38
6
Harlem
Langston Hughes
0:25
7
Negro
Langston Hughes
0:46
8
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes
0:42
9
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
1:35
10
La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson
2:39
11
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats read by Sir Ralph Richardson
3:38
12
Song to a Waitress
Aron Keesbury
0:36
13
A Visit From St. Sigmund
X. J. Kennedy
3:40
14
The Blue Bowl
Jane Kenyon read by Donald Hall
0:46
15
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Galway Kinnell
1:40
16
Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell
0:52
17
A Watts Mother Mourns While Boiling Beans
Etheridge Knight
0:34
18
Woodchucks
Maxine Kumin
2:01
19
Gathered at the River
Denise Levertov
3:07
20
Hazel Tells LaVerne
Katharyn Howd Machan
0:50
21
Rite of Passage
Sharon Olds
1:16
22
One Perfect Rose
Dorothy Parker
0:48
23
Marks
Linda Pastan
0:33
24
My Papa's Waltz
Theodore Roethke
0:44
25
My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud
0:48
26
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud
0:55
27
When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud
0:56
28
Black Hair
Gary Soto
1:48
29
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas
1:35
30
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
Richard Wilbur
1:59
31
The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
0:09
32
A Blessing
James Wright
1:46
33
Adam's Curse
William Butler Yeats read by Julian Sands
2:05
34
That the Night Come
William Butler Yeats read by Samantha Eggar
0:34
35
Scene From Nora, a Stage Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
Ingmar Bergman read by Linda Purl & David Dukes
12:05
36
A Scene From M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang read by B. D. Wong
5:25
37
A Scene From Hamlet
William Shakespeare read by John Gielgud
2:22
38
A Scene From Hamlet
William Shakespeare read by Kenneth Branagh
2:27