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Title Description
THE VOICE OF THE POET
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings on cassette and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliograohy, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review.
"Hearing poetry spoken by the poet is always a unique illumination. This series opens our ears to some of the most passionate utterances and enthralling performances ever recorded."--Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize winner, Poetry
"There has been a great need for a well-edited audio series for poetry, with high literary and technical quality. J. D. McClatchy has filled this need with great style."--Robert Pinsky
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was a suburban housewife and mother when she began writing poetry in 1956 at her psychiatrist's suggestion to help her recover from a nervous breakdown. Her early confessional work and virtuosic craft yielded in later books to a more surrealistic voice, flamboyant and searing, as she continued to explore her abiding subjects--the limits of sanity and the nature and roles of womanhood. Sexton, one of the most distinctive voices of her generation and a figure of real importance in the development of American poetry, was awarded the Pulitzer Price in 1967. She committed suicide in 1974.
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