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Joshua Clover reads from two of his books, Madonna Anno Domini and The Totality for Kids. The latter book, read here in manuscript, would be published by University of California Press in 2006. Clover also comments on the process of drafting the then-untitled manuscript.

Thomas Kinsella reads poems from Downstream (1962), Wormwood (1966), and Nightwalker and Other Poems (1968), as well as poems that would later appear in Collected Poems 1956-1994 (1996) and Selected Poems (2007).

Seamus Heaney reads from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), North (1975), Field Work (1979), and Station Island (1984). This recording is incomplete due to a malfunction on the original reel-to-reel tape, and the final three tracks display some sound distortion.