If you enjoy hearing poetry spoken aloud, we have quite a few CDs to pique your interest. FYI - you'll find them in the Audiobooks department, near the north-facing windows on the 3rd floor. Here are a few titles I stumbled upon while browsing (click titles to find them in our Catalog):
- Talk Is Cheap: Volume 2 - a live performance by Henry Rollins from The Enmore Theatre in Sydney, Australia. When I was a freshman in college, my friend Sean introduced me to the work of Rollins and the band Black Flag - intense, funny, intelligent and raw. Rollins now primarily performs in the spoken word genre, and just appeared in Chicago at The Vic a few nights ago.
- By Someone's Good Grace - Chicago Slam Sounds. Featuring well-known Chicago "slam" poets Marc Smith, Dean Hacker and others.
- Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers - subtitled "Black Poets Read Their Works." Names you know, like Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes. Names you should know, like Nikki Giovanni, Rita Dove, Gil Scott-Heron and even Public Enemy.
- Looking for more classic and familiar poetry? Try titles like The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Shakespeare, Yeats, Dickinson, Cummings, Frost) and The Poets' Corner, compiled by actor John Lithgow and recommended "for the whole family," with poets like Blake, Poe, and Dylan Thomas.
