CD 1. The song of the old mother ; The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats
In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden
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 / Muriel 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 Brodsky
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
Tetelestai / 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 Benet
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.
