Poetry Speaks
Edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby
Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2001
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and Dorothy Parker to Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks.
“The definitive anthology”
— Publishers Weekly
“This book has the potential to draw more readers to poetry than any collection in years.”
— Publishers Weekly
“It speaks volumes for Poetry Speaks that by the time you’re done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there were more.”
— Wall Street Journal
“The most ambitious, innovative poetry project to be published in years.”
— Quality Paperback Book Club