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