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Word of Mouth

Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered

Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered

By Catherine Bowman

By Catherine Bowman

By Catherine Bowman

By Catherine Bowman

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Mar 11, 2003 | ISBN 9780375713156

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Mar 25, 2009 | ISBN 9780307549648

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    About Word of Mouth

    Starting in 1995, NPR’s All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by “poetry DJ” Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth, edited by Bowman, brings together the poems that have been featured on NPR, providing a window onto the dynamic contemporary poetry scene. A child playing with flashes of sunlight in the aisle of an airplane; a woman describing tropical fruit to someone in a faraway country; a man building a deck with his dead father’s hammer; the musings of a Barbie doll participating in a 12-step program: these poems powerfully and lyrically transform the stuff of every day life. A celebration of the poetic voice that includes 33 acclaimed writers, this vibrant anthology proves beyond any doubt that poetry is far more than just words on paper.

    Quincy Troupe • Czeslaw Milosz • Campbell McGrath • C.D. Wright • Jack Gilbert • Heather McHugh • David Lehman • Wang Ping • Joseph Brodsky • Paul Beatty • Lorna Dee Cervantes • Paul Muldoon • Lucille Clifton • Naomi Shihab Nye • Richard Blanco • Albert Goldbarth • Carrie Allen McCray • Belle Waring • Russell Edson • Kevin Young • Nuali Di Dhomhnaill • Charles Harper Webb • Denise Duhamel • Yusef Komunyakaa • Hal Sirowitz • Lucia Perillo • Amy Gerstler • Maura Stanton • Marilyn Chin • Philip Booth • Jane Cooper • Diane DiPrima • Elizabeth Spires

    About Word of Mouth

    Starting in 1995, NPR’s All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by “poetry DJ” Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth, edited by Bowman, brings together the poems that have been featured on NPR, providing a window onto the dynamic contemporary poetry scene. A child playing with flashes of sunlight in the aisle of an airplane; a woman describing tropical fruit to someone in a faraway country; a man building a deck with his dead father’s hammer; the musings of a Barbie doll participating in a 12-step program: these poems powerfully and lyrically transform the stuff of every day life. A celebration of the poetic voice that includes 33 acclaimed writers, this vibrant anthology proves beyond any doubt that poetry is far more than just words on paper.

    Quincy Troupe • Czeslaw Milosz • Campbell McGrath • C.D. Wright • Jack Gilbert • Heather McHugh • David Lehman • Wang Ping • Joseph Brodsky • Paul Beatty • Lorna Dee Cervantes • Paul Muldoon • Lucille Clifton • Naomi Shihab Nye • Richard Blanco • Albert Goldbarth • Carrie Allen McCray • Belle Waring • Russell Edson • Kevin Young • Nuali Di Dhomhnaill • Charles Harper Webb • Denise Duhamel • Yusef Komunyakaa • Hal Sirowitz • Lucia Perillo • Amy Gerstler • Maura Stanton • Marilyn Chin • Philip Booth • Jane Cooper • Diane DiPrima • Elizabeth Spires

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    About Catherine Bowman

    About the EditorCatherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas, and currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where she teaches at Indiana University. She has worked with National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" since 1995 as a consultant and commentator on… More about Catherine Bowman

    About Catherine Bowman

    About the EditorCatherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas, and currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where she teaches at Indiana University. She has worked with National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" since 1995 as a consultant and commentator on… More about Catherine Bowman

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $21.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 11, 2003 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375713156

    Category: Poetry | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 25, 2009 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780307549648

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    Table Of Contents

    Introduction


    QUINCY TROUPE
    Flight
    Eye Change Dreams

    CZESLAW MILOSZ
    Preparation
    A Song on the End of the World
    In Common

    HEATHER McHUGH
    The Size of Spokane
    What He Thought
    Unguent
    High Jinx

    CAMPBELL McGRATH
    Delphos, Ohio
    Capitalist Poem #42
    The Golden Angel Pancake House
    The Gulf

    C. D. WRIGHT
    Everything Good Between Men and Women
    Song of the Gourd
    30
    JACK GILBERT
    Tear It Down
    Almost Happy
    Married
    The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart

    DAVID LEHMAN
    January 1 [1998]
    March 16 [1996]
    April 26 [1998]
    August 31 [2000]
    December 29 [1997]

    WANG PING
    No Sense of Direction
    Of Flesh & Spirit
    These Images

    JOSEPH BRODSKY
    A Song
    Blues
    Törnfallet

    PAUL BEATTY
    Aa Bb Cc . . . Xx Yy and Zzing
    Dib Dab
    At Ease

    DIANE DI PRIMA
    April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa
    Ode to Elegance

    LORNA DEE CERVANTES
    Bananas

    PAUL MULDOON
    The Birth
    Anseo
    The Briefcase

    LUCILLE CLIFTON
    sam
    june 20
    homage to my hips
    daughters

    NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
    My Friend’s Divorce
    Going for Peaches, Fredericksburg, Texas
    Wedding Cake

    RICHARD BLANCO
    Décima Guajira
    Photo Shop
    The Silver Sands

    ALBERT GOLDBARTH
    Coinages: A Fairy Tale
    How Easy It Is
    An Explanation

    CARRIE ALLEN McCRAY
    Thoughts at the Grave Site
    Strange Patterns
    Two Ways to Cook Macaroni and Cheese for Pastor
    Trade Off
    Anemone

    BELLE WARING
    It Was My First Nursing Job
    So Get Over It, Honey

    RUSSELL EDSON
    On the Eating of Mice
    Counting Sheep
    Antimatter
    The Fall

    KEVIN YOUNG
    [Blues]
    Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
    Negative

    NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL
    Nude
    The Race

    CHARLES HARPER WEBB
    The New Marriage
    Tone of Voice
    Buyer’s Remorse

    DENISE DUHAMEL
    Hippie Barbie
    Barbie Joins a Twelve Step Program
    Buddhist Barbie

    YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA
    Anodyne
    The Deck
    Venus’s-flytraps

    HAL SIROWITZ
    Two Visits in One Day
    Horns on Your Head
    Crumbs
    Word Power

    LUCIA PERILLO
    Compulsory Travel
    Lost Innocence of the Potato Givers

    AMY GERSTLER
    Modern Madonnas
    Her Account of Herself
    My Muse

    MAURA STANTON
    Gifts
    Childhood
    Maple Tree

    MARILYN CHIN
    The Floral Apron
    Song of the Sad Guitar
    Rhapsody in Plain Yellow

    PHILIP BOOTH
    Hope
    First Lesson
    Evening

    JANE COOPER
    The Blue Anchor
    Rent

    ELIZABETH SPIRES
    Easter Sunday 1955
    On the Island

    Permissions
    Acknowledgments

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