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SHOUT! FACTORY CELEBRATES POETRY:
Spectacular Four-Disc Deluxe Audio Boxed Set Includes
Historic To Contemporary Recordings Of 128 Poems!
A SoundPress.net Feature Article by Rich and Laura Lynch
LOS ANGELES, CA - Shout! Factory recently entered the literary world with the release of a four-disc deluxe audio boxed set, Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888 - 2006). Compiled by editor and author Rebekah Presson Mosby, this comprehensive set, complete with a 68 page color booklet, includes recordings of 128 poems read by the original authors, from an historic recording of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson to a recent reading by up-and-coming young poet Jonathan Lamfers.
"If there was ever a time when the world needed poetry," Rebekah Presson Mosby explains, "this is it. Great poets take on all of life's experience ... reflect upon it, and consider its implication in our life and its effect on the human heart." For centuries poets have commented on the human condition and its endless meanings. Just reading a poem can inspire laughter or tears, even anger. Poetry On Record allows the listener to hear a poem read the way the poet intended, with the poet's own reflection, intention and power behind every spoken word. Mosby draws upon poetry archives from all over the country to bring a cross section of unique voices in this comprehensive audio anthology, beginning with recordings made by Thomas Edison himself.
Ranging from the classics to the contemporary, from Romanticism to hip-hop, from narrative to epic and back, Poetry On Record offers some of English language's best poets: Tennyson and Yeats, Dylan Thomas and Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, Erica Jong, and California Poet Laureate Al Young (who also contributes an essay), Luis Rodriquez and Rita Dove and more. This audio compilation demonstrates how trends and movements in poetry have evolved over the last 125 years, as well as how technology has influenced the way poetry is performed.
About the producer:
Rebekah Presson Mosby is known for her work in poetry audio as well as arts reporting on National Public Radio. From 1983 to 1995, she hosted "New Letters on the Air," a syndicated radio show interviewing more than 350 contemporary poets and writers. She co-edited (with Elise Paschen) the 2001 bestseller, Poetry Speaks (Sourcebooks), and edited the groundbreaking Rhino Records poetry box sets, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry (1996) and Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (2000).
About Shout! Factory:
Shout! Factory is a diversified entertainment company devoted to producing, uncovering and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their careers sharing their music, television and film faves with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory's DVD offerings serve up classic, contemporary and cult TV series, riveting sports programs, live music, animation and documentaries in lavish packages crammed with extras. The company's audio catalogue boasts GRAMMY-nominated boxed sets, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable "best of" compilations. These riches are the result of a creative acquisitions mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, Calif. Its fine products are distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment Inc. For more on Shout! Factory, visit www.shoutfactory.com.
Featuring Works By:
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, James Weldon Johnson, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, E.E. Cummings, Robert Graves, Stephen Vincent Benet, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Stanley Kunitz, W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Muriel Rukeyser, John Berryman, David Ignatow, William Stafford, Dylan Thomas, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, William Meredith, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Hayden Carruth, Richard Wilbur, Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn & Zoot Simms, Denise Levertov, Lisel Mueller, Maxine Kumin, Allen Ginsberg, A.R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, James Wright, Anne Sexton, Sharon Olds, James Tate, Pedro Pietri, Anne Waldman, Adrian Louis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Juan Felipe Herrera with Mark Daterman, Carolyn Forché, Peter Balakian, Joy Harjo, Rita Dove, Vijay Seshadri, Marilyn Chin, Luci Tapahonso, Luis Rodriguez, Li-Young Lee, Elise Paschen, Deborah Garrison, Elizabeth Alexander, D.A. Powell, Carl Hancock Rux, John Poch, Suji Kwock Kim, Kevin Prufer, Kevin Young, Jonathan Lamfers, Richard Howard, Adrienne Rich, Ted Hughes, Derek Walcott, Gary Snyder, Etheridge Knight, Sylvia Plath, David Ray, John Updike, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Marge Piercy, Mark Strand, Paul Zimmer, Lucille Clifton, Diane Wakoski, Charles Simic, Seamus Heaney, Al Young, Gloria Vando, Joseph Brodsky, Simon J. Ortiz and Erica Jong.
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(Originally Published on April 17, 2006)
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