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...Certainly, in our struggle to make sense out of what we do not understand, Poetry Speaks Expanded helps on so many levels. Carol Hoenig, THE HUFFINGTON POST