On 2007-03-08 Leisha Wharfield, Eugene, Oregon United States wrote: This is a great CD for your next road trip. I especially enjoy Dorothy Parker´s poem ´Men.´ Her scathing delivery is hilarious. Ogden Nash, with his deliberate and self-indulgent style, may strike a listener as tedious at first. But just listen, and the reason for his easy arrogance unfolds within your mind as his assonance and rhyme build through imagery and punchlines to a certain sublime truth about this life, whoever you are, wherever you are. I´ve listened to several of these poems over and over. Phyllis McGinley is more stark and political than Ogden and Dorothy, and her delivery far less nuanced. I´m not sure why she was included in this collection; it may have been polished off nicely with a better choice. I can´t really blame her, though--who can follow Ogden Nash?. And summed up by saying The Wonder of the Wit. Currently Voice of the Poet: American Wits: Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Phyllis McGinley has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Ogden Nash claimed A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the poetry, a bibliograohy, and commentary by J. D. McClatchy, the poet and critic, who is the editor of The Yale Review. ´To hear a poem spoken in the voice of the person who wrote it is not only to witness the rising of words off the page and into the air, but to experience an aural reenactment of exactly what the poet must have heard, if only internally, during the act of composition. THE VOICE OF THE POET recordings deliver these pleasures as they broadcast the pitch and timbre of many of the major voices in twentieth-century poetry.´--Billy Collins, U.S,. Poet Lauerate.
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