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"By the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more." – WALL STREET JOURNAL"The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry, a practice of discipline, skill, and magic." - BOOKLIST"...The prose comes to life when read aloud, especially when you hear James Joyce read it himself." – NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED host Jacki Lyden "This tome is a reminder how the human spirit is capable of finding an outlet in oppressive times, how poetry can help explain why we do what we do as a thinking people.