When you’re done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams?
Recordings of the poets’ works are available for free through PennSound, an online audio archive developed by professors at the University of Pennsylvania.
PennSound features about 200 writers and more than 10,000 recordings contributed by poets, fans and scholars worldwide. The two-year-old site recently acquired rare readings by Pound, some previously unknown.
Hearing any poet “makes the poems easier to move into, in some cases,” said Tree Swenson, director of the Academy of American Poets in New York. “Our ears are less logical than our eyes, somehow.”
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