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Written & performed by Dylan Thomas - Unabridged Poetry Selections - 2 CASSETTES - 2 hours

Publisher, Harper Audio (March 1992)

"Dylan Thomas'....voice has added a new dimension to literary history. He will surely be remembered as the first in modern literature to be both a maker and speaker of poetry...The typical reader will become entranced after hearing him recite." --The New York Times

Remastered from the original BBC broadcast recordings the stories of Dylan Thomas presented here are wild and sweet and cocky--as the man and child were. His technique is impressionistic, piling on the sights and smells and sounds experience by one rough-and-tumble Welsh lad with miraculous awareness of the wonder of things. Throughout his short life, Dylan Thomas dipped continually into his own childhood for his poetry.

Thomas' hilarious, semi-autobiographical novel Adventures in the Skin Trade about a young man's first trip to the big city was recorded at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA in New York City.

This audio reproduces the full sound spectrum of the historic recordings; it has been remastered using contemporary digital equipment.

About the Author: Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales on 27 October 1914. In 1934 his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poems appeared, followed by Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and in 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems. He also published many short stories, wrote film scripts, broadcast stories and talks, did a series of lecture tours in the United States and wrote Under Milkwood, the radio play.

During his fourth lecture tour of the United States in 1953, a few days after his 39th birthday, he collapsed in his New York hotel and died on November 9th at St. Vincent's Hospital. His body was sent back to Laugharne, Wales, where his grave is marked by a simple wooden cross.

In June 1994, his wife, Caitlin Thomas, died in Italy, where she had spent most of the years of her life after the death of Dylan Thomas. Her body is buried next to his.