Selections from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

Artista: University Players, the

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: FOWY

Catalogo: 9750

Faixas: 1.1 For You O Democracy – “Calamus”
1.2 I Hear America Singing – “Inscriptions”
1.3 Pioneers! O Pioneers! – “Birds of Passage”
1.4 Song of the Open Road – “Calamus”
1.5 This Dust Was Once the Man – “Memories of President Lincoln”
1.6 Hush’d Be the Camps Today
1.7 O Captain, My Captain
1.8 A Boston Ballad – 1854 – “By the Roadside”
1.9 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking – “Sea-Drift”
1.10 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry – “Calamus”

This spoken word recording is composed of 10 poems selected from Walt Whitman’s collection Leaves of Grass. Whitman’s work was first published in 1855 and consisted of just 12 poems; he continued to add to Leaves of Grass for the next 36 years, completing the final edition of 400 poems in 1891. Poems selected for this recording include “Pioneers! O Pioneers!,” “O Captain! My Captain!,” and “I Hear America Singing.” the poems are read by the University Players, whose university and members are unidentified. The liner notes include the text of the 10 poems.