Bestsellers
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Spoon River Anthology
- By: Edgar Lee Masters
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday, Andy Harrington, Elizabeth Klett, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems that describe life - and death - in a small town. Each poem is a monologue delivered by a resident of Spoon River, describing events in their lives, and the circumstances that led to their occasionally untimely end....
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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Raw & intimate
- By Ashley on 12-02-23
By: Andrea Gibson
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- By: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrated by: C. S. Verdád
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever....
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I love Neruda
- By heather on 08-06-18
By: Pablo Neruda, and others
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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- By: Hala Alyan
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem....
By: Hala Alyan
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience....
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Unheard poems and stories In
- By paralegal54 on 03-01-24
By: Langston Hughes
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Кобзар
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Кобзар — збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми...
By: Тарас Шевченко
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Spoon River Anthology
- By: Edgar Lee Masters
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday, Andy Harrington, Elizabeth Klett, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems that describe life - and death - in a small town. Each poem is a monologue delivered by a resident of Spoon River, describing events in their lives, and the circumstances that led to their occasionally untimely end....
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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Raw & intimate
- By Ashley on 12-02-23
By: Andrea Gibson
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- By: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrated by: C. S. Verdád
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever....
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I love Neruda
- By heather on 08-06-18
By: Pablo Neruda, and others
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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- By: Hala Alyan
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem....
By: Hala Alyan
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Story
Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience....
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Unheard poems and stories In
- By paralegal54 on 03-01-24
By: Langston Hughes
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Кобзар
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Кобзар — збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми...
By: Тарас Шевченко
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A Year of Last Things
- Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back....
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Mesmerizing !
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-24
By: Michael Ondaatje
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New American Best Friend
- By: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes....
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- By Keaira on 07-29-19
By: Olivia Gatwood
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What I Learned from the Trees
- By: L. E. Bowman
- Narrated by: L. E. Bowman
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interactions affect us as individuals, families, and communities....
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Not even sure how I came across this title!
- By victoria on 06-18-23
By: L. E. Bowman
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Heartbreak Agony & Pain: Poetry and Prose
- Love & Heartbreak Poems, Book 2
- By: D. R. Nguyen
- Narrated by: D. R. Nguyen
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Heartbreak Agony & Pain is a collection of poetry and prose that takes the listener on an odyssey of heartache, grief, agony, and pain coping with the aftermath of a breakup.
By: D. R. Nguyen
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Light for the World to See
- A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events....
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Powerful
- By SH on 11-04-23
By: Kwame Alexander
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Danger on Peaks
- By: Gary Snyder
- Narrated by: Gary Snyder
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Perhaps Snyder most personal, autobiographical collection, the audio begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima....
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Gary Snyder in a Lifetime, Unforgettable
- By Susie on 05-05-16
By: Gary Snyder
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woke up no light
- poems
- By: Leila Mottley
- Narrated by: Leila Mottley
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California.
By: Leila Mottley
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DKMH
- Poems
- By: Dacre Montgomery
- Narrated by: Dacre Montgomery
- Length: 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Since its release as a small mixed-media podcast, DKMH has topped charts all over the internet. Written and produced by Stranger Things star Dacre Montgomery, this exciting debut collection of poetry and prose is an analysis of ego, love, anger, and anxiety....
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Beautiful
- By BeachShark on 04-04-24
By: Dacre Montgomery
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The Poetry of Strangers
- What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter
- By: Brian Sonia-Wallace
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems....
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A must listen to for poetry lovers.
- By Lloyd Richardson on 07-01-20
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Judas Goat
- Poems
- By: Gabrielle Bates
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Bates
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships....
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Unforgettable Images…and more
- By EB on 02-04-23
By: Gabrielle Bates
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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Mexico City Blues
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the renowned Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes this important work of lyric verse, one of his most formally inventive books.
By: Jack Kerouac
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The Twilight of the Sioux
- A Cycle of the West II
- By: John G. Neihardt
- Narrated by: Robin Neihardt
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The magnificence and tragedy of the Old West is here, as told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt: the courage of the settlers in the American West, the valiant resistance by the Native peoples who called it home.
By: John G. Neihardt
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How to Maintain Eye Contact
- By: Robert Wood Lynn
- Narrated by: Robert Wood Lynn
- Length: 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncertainty, interpersonal uncertainty and uncertainty at a larger scale....
By: Robert Wood Lynn
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Fast Speaking Woman
- Chants & Essays
- By: Anne Waldman
- Narrated by: Anne Waldman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this 20th-anniversary expanded edition to add 20 poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “chant” as central to contemporary performative poetry....
By: Anne Waldman
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Campos de Castilla [Fields of Castile]
- By: Antonio Machado
- Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Campos de Castilla, publicado en 1912, es, probablemente, el libro más influyente de la poesía en español del siglo XX....
By: Antonio Machado
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Winter Stranger
- Poems
- By: Jackson Holbert
- Narrated by: Jackson Holbert
- Length: 40 mins
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Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, Jackson Holbert’s Winter Stranger is a solemn record of addiction and the divided affections we hold for the landscapes that shape us....
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Masterful
- By BenYL on 07-21-23
By: Jackson Holbert
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Fever of Unknown Origin
- Poems
- By: Campbell McGrath
- Narrated by: Campbell McGrath
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Fever of Unknown Origin opens at a remote crossroads, where the speaker considers the intersection of history, beauty, and destruction: “the past / is paper / and the present, a match . . .” What follows is an urgent tour of landscapes....
By: Campbell McGrath
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Run Away Home
- By: Toni Britton
- Narrated by: Toni Lynn Britton
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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A Hampton Roads poet in true fashion, as she came upon our shores from distant lands, starting in Ohio....
By: Toni Britton
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Golden Ax
- Penguin Poets
- By: Rio Cortez
- Narrated by: Rio Cortez
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience, comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West....
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Absolutely wonderful!
- By ML on 09-27-22
By: Rio Cortez
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You and Yours
- By: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A beloved, best-selling American poet with an international reputation celebrates the sacred in all things....
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
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A People's History of Chicago
- By: Kevin Coval
- Narrated by: Kevin Coval, Jamila Woods
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold....
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Better in Print
- By Katie Rosewicz on 10-04-22
By: Kevin Coval
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Selected Poems
- By: Ai Qing, Robert Dorsett - translator, Ai Weiwei - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih, Nancy Wu, Robert Dorsett
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets - now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei....
By: Ai Qing, and others
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Vinegar Hill
- Poems
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Tóibín in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events....
By: Colm Tóibín
New releases
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Love Letters to Places
- By: Anja Mujic
- Narrated by: Anja Mujic
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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there was presence in the stillness/and stillness in a constant state of transience/where inner and outer worlds were shaped and traced/by the fading echoes of a single breath left behind/a memoir of moments lingering far and wide
By: Anja Mujic
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Mrs. McCartney's Liverpool Limericks and Other Random Irish Haikus
- Throne Room Reading for Fans of the Fabs
- By: Angie McCartney
- Narrated by: Dr Angie McCartney, Ruth McCartney
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A lilting look at the Irish poetic format of the Limerick, featuring whimsical verse about icons of pop culture, the 1960's and iconic places in Liverpool, London and "across the universe." An ideal travel (or bathroom) companion for baby boomers, their grandkids and fans of the Fab Four. The book contains the history of the Limerick, and the story of Liverpool, the Fabs and their friends.
By: Angie McCartney
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Mexican Dinosaur
- By: C.L. Martinez
- Narrated by: C.L. Martinez
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Mexican Dinosaur is a poetic offering from C.L. "Rooster" Martinez and Write About Now Publishing. The collection of poems is a metamodernist take on the changing economic demographics of his San Antonio barrio, the confusion and desire to flourish within a hyphenated American identity, and the force of gravity that the push and pull of culture from both sides of a Mexican/American ethnicity has.
By: C.L. Martinez
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The Frozen Earth & Other Poems
- Poems from the author of South Riding
- By: Winifred Holtby
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire. Her early novels met with only moderate success but as a journalist she was both prolific and increasingly well-known. Her articles graced more than 20 newspapers and magazines, including the Manchester Guardian newspaper.
By: Winifred Holtby
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The Twilight of the Sioux
- A Cycle of the West II
- By: John G. Neihardt
- Narrated by: Robin Neihardt
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The magnificence and tragedy of the Old West is here, as told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt: the courage of the settlers in the American West, the valiant resistance by the Native peoples who called it home. The legendary warriors Crazy horse, Red Cloud, and sitting Bull ride forth again, the ghost dance is performed once more; The 7th cavalry is annihilated at the Little Bighorn only to rise again and participate in a horrific massacre at Wounded Knee.
By: John G. Neihardt
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Reflections
- By: Mallory Rowse
- Narrated by: Cherry McIntosh
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Creativity is the mark of poetry as it sings our senses in appreciation and realizes another perspective to what surrounds us. Another poem, another realm of understanding. Poetry affords one to a taste of strength of suggestion that whets the palate very differently to the manner in which a fictional or non-fictional novel cannot achieve. Enjoy your journey through this book as your listening material companion.
By: Mallory Rowse
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Love Letters to Places
- By: Anja Mujic
- Narrated by: Anja Mujic
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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there was presence in the stillness/and stillness in a constant state of transience/where inner and outer worlds were shaped and traced/by the fading echoes of a single breath left behind/a memoir of moments lingering far and wide
By: Anja Mujic
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Mrs. McCartney's Liverpool Limericks and Other Random Irish Haikus
- Throne Room Reading for Fans of the Fabs
- By: Angie McCartney
- Narrated by: Dr Angie McCartney, Ruth McCartney
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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A lilting look at the Irish poetic format of the Limerick, featuring whimsical verse about icons of pop culture, the 1960's and iconic places in Liverpool, London and "across the universe." An ideal travel (or bathroom) companion for baby boomers, their grandkids and fans of the Fab Four. The book contains the history of the Limerick, and the story of Liverpool, the Fabs and their friends.
By: Angie McCartney
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Mexican Dinosaur
- By: C.L. Martinez
- Narrated by: C.L. Martinez
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Mexican Dinosaur is a poetic offering from C.L. "Rooster" Martinez and Write About Now Publishing. The collection of poems is a metamodernist take on the changing economic demographics of his San Antonio barrio, the confusion and desire to flourish within a hyphenated American identity, and the force of gravity that the push and pull of culture from both sides of a Mexican/American ethnicity has.
By: C.L. Martinez
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The Frozen Earth & Other Poems
- Poems from the author of South Riding
- By: Winifred Holtby
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Winifred Holtby was born on 23rd June 1898 to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston in Yorkshire. Her early novels met with only moderate success but as a journalist she was both prolific and increasingly well-known. Her articles graced more than 20 newspapers and magazines, including the Manchester Guardian newspaper.
By: Winifred Holtby
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The Twilight of the Sioux
- A Cycle of the West II
- By: John G. Neihardt
- Narrated by: Robin Neihardt
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The magnificence and tragedy of the Old West is here, as told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt: the courage of the settlers in the American West, the valiant resistance by the Native peoples who called it home. The legendary warriors Crazy horse, Red Cloud, and sitting Bull ride forth again, the ghost dance is performed once more; The 7th cavalry is annihilated at the Little Bighorn only to rise again and participate in a horrific massacre at Wounded Knee.
By: John G. Neihardt
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Reflections
- By: Mallory Rowse
- Narrated by: Cherry McIntosh
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Creativity is the mark of poetry as it sings our senses in appreciation and realizes another perspective to what surrounds us. Another poem, another realm of understanding. Poetry affords one to a taste of strength of suggestion that whets the palate very differently to the manner in which a fictional or non-fictional novel cannot achieve. Enjoy your journey through this book as your listening material companion.
By: Mallory Rowse