Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy

Compiled by Erwin A. Glikes and Paul Schwaber and read by Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan, this 1965 release, Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy, features works by 52 poets. “With the exception of Abraham Lincoln, no president has inspired so much good poetry,” write Glikes and Schwaber in extensive liner notes that include the text of each of the poems appearing in this volume. They, too, appropriately note what John F. Kennedy said of poet Robert Frost: “A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.” This recording also includes excerpts from a speech Kennedy made at the dedication of the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College in October 1963.

Track Listing

101	Frost, Robert: For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	03:23
102	The Gift Outright	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:54
103	Ozick, Cynthia: Footnote to Lord Action	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:02
104	Victor, Florence: Berlin Crisis	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:34
105	Hitchcock, George: Mr. Kennedy Proposes to Pacify the Caribbeans	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:49
106	Williams, Jonathan: Davenport Gap	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:37
107	Wright, Charles: November 22, 1963	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:32
108	O'Connell, Richard: Nekros	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:19
109	Faerstein, Chana: Bulletin	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:05
110	Brooks, Gwendolyn: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:41
111	Ignatow, David: Before the Sabbath	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:11
112	Miles, Josephine: Frontier	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:06
113	Hall, Donald: Spider Head	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:02
114	Gilbert, Dorothy: At the Brooklyn Docks	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:56
115	Hugo, Richard: Kennedy Ucciso	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	02:00
116	Fraser, G.S.: Instead of an Elegy	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:24
117	Goldman, Michael: The Spontaneous Man, The Gifted Assassin	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:29
118	Butler, William: November 25, 1963	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:13
201	Berryman, John: Formal Elegy	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	06:16
202	Hollo, Anselm: Until Death do us Part	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:27
203	Shapiro, Harvey: National Cold Storage Company	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:02
204	Whitbread, Thomas: November 25, 1963	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:04
205	Mir, Marjorie: Four Days in November	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:31
206	Barker, Richard: Night of the President's Funeral	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:33
207	Kennedy, X.J.: Down in Dallas	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:57
208	Cuomo, George: The Man of My Dreams	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:53
209	Yorck, Ruth Landshoff: I M J F K	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:59
210	Thomas, Lorenzo:Not That Hurried Grief	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	02:49
211	Hazel, Robert: Guard of Honor	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	05:38
212	Marshall, Jack: Elegy for the New Year	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:59
213	Moss, Howard: Traction	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:57
301	Watson, Robert: Lines for a President	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	02:11
302	Burr, Gray: A Death Before Killing	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:52
303	Frost, Richard: On Not Writing an Elegy	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:15
304	Rothenberg, Jerome G.: Cortège	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:48
305	Inman, William: Jacqueline	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:25
306	Solomon, Marvin: Sonnet for John-John	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:58
307	Mountzoures, H.L.: Three Nights of Mourning: John F. Kennedy	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	04:38
308	Eberhart, Richard: The Spirit of Poetry Speaks	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:24
309	Roseliep, Raymond: For John Kennedy, Jr.	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:38
310	Mandel, Oscar: We Who Do Not Grieve In Silence	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	02:48
311	Ansen, Alan: the Death of Nearchus	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:58
312	Auden, W.H.: Elegy for JFK	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:34
313	Sward, Robert: Five Poems for JFK	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	03:48
401	Pols, Edward: (Untitled)	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	03:40
402	Guest, Barbara: Verba in Memoriam	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:40
403	Myers, Neil: Kennedy Poem	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:05
404	Corso, Gregory: Lines Written Nov. 22, 23 - 1963	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	03:29
405	Bergé, Carol: Pavane for the White Queen	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	05:51
406	Booth, Philip: Thanksgiving 1963	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:46
407	Ostroff, Anthony: Intimate Party in Guadalajara, Dec. 1963	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	02:55
408	Spacks, Barry: By This to Remember	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	00:44
409	Reid, Alaster: That Dying	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	01:16
410	JFK at Amherst College, Oct. 26, 1963	Irene Dailey and Martin Donegan	06:56