Poetry CD Giveaway!
For those of you who may be tuning in to our blog for the first time this year, I have a great treat. FSG has created a CD of some of our favorite poetry recordings from last year, and I'm giving just three away on this blog. The recordings include:
- C. K. Williams reading Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead
- Derek Walcott reading sections from The Bounty
- Debut poet Eliza Griswold reading Tigers
- August Kleinzahler reading one of my favorites, Green Sees Things in Waves
There are lots more tracks, but I need to stop myself before I list all of them! If you're interested in receiving a CD, leave a comment below with the name of your favorite FSG poet. We'll choose three people at random to receive the CD. Let's put the end date on this tomorrow afternoon at 5 PM EST.
Robert Pinsky during the day. Elizabeth Bishop at night. My two favs!
Posted by: Rebecca Belarge | April 08, 2008 at 04:54 PM
Robert Lowell.
Cal, bring me luck!
Posted by: Travis Smith | April 08, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Derek Walcott, undoubtedly.
Posted by: Xavier Farre | April 09, 2008 at 04:33 AM
August Kleinzahler as a matter of fact, for being endlessly engaging and - by virtue of still being alive - making the promise of more yet to come (unlike so many favourites).
Posted by: Michael | April 09, 2008 at 06:40 AM
I'll say Paul Muldoon. He is an intelligent and funny writer who is always a joy to hear read live. And, anyone who pens lyrics to a couple of Warren Zevon songs ("My Ride's Here," and "McGillicudy's Reeks") is a hero in my book.
Posted by: Bill Cohen | April 09, 2008 at 08:53 AM
Federico Garcia Lorca - for his wonderful, powerful imagery of the city and of the countryside. It would be great if FSG could release a recording of his poems being read in both the original Spanish and in English.
Posted by: Niall Munro | April 09, 2008 at 09:49 AM
Wow - there are several -
It'd narrow it down to between John Ashbery, Ted Hughes.
Posted by: Michael | April 09, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Philip Larkin. Surly and subversive, but a master of subtle tone shifts.
Posted by: John | April 09, 2008 at 11:49 AM
How about the turfy tongue of Seamus Heaney? Or maybe that progging ploughboy, John Clare?
Posted by: Temple | April 09, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Fred Seidel. Need I say more?
Posted by: Chris K. | April 09, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Rilke, always.
Posted by: BR | April 09, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Muldoon.
Actually, Heaney.
No, I mean Hughes.
I mean Bishop.
Er, Fred Seidel.
Philip Larkin.
Muldoon.
Posted by: JT | April 09, 2008 at 02:51 PM
My favorite FSG poem and poet would be "Clearances" by Seamus Heaney: pure perfection.
Posted by: David Livewell | April 02, 2009 at 10:00 AM