In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry

This impressive four-CD set of 79 poets reading their work begins with an 1890 recording of Walt Whitman's ''America,'' the first of many pieces forming an enchanting audio-mosaic. A labor of love, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry suffers only in its omissions (T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop). Considered individually or as a whole, these 122 poems poignantly remind us that a poet, as W.H. Auden once said, is a person passionately in love with language. A