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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
- By: William Butler Yeats
- Narrated by: William Butler Yeats, Siobhan McKenna
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
A wonderful selection of Yeats' finest work, read by the author himself along with Siobhan McKenna and others.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Blurry
- By Patricia on 08-23-11
- The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
- By: William Butler Yeats
- Narrated by: William Butler Yeats, Siobhan McKenna
one of the poets I talk to the most
Reviewed: 11-29-22
Yeats wasn't easy or relatable to me as a young college woman learning about the early modernist poets whose work followed his, who owed so much to him really, and whose poetry was "trendier," to put it crassly. But over the years Yeats has grown deeply significant to me. He defers to Place, to Nature, to all the old stories, and to Woman (My appreciation of him didn't lessen !! when I discovered that our mother was a descendant of Bree emigrants from Sligo). And Yeats' recorded voice is in this edition, in the form of two recordings: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" has been beautifully remastered; and I hadn't yet heard him performing"The Fiddler of Dooney." All the other readers are excellent--I can guess at a few in the mix--and I do wish they all might have been credited here by name. Listen to this book. It's that troll under the mountain with his pot of rocks and gold.
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Light, Spirit, and Soul
- Words + Music, Vol. 30
- By: Carlos Santana
- Narrated by: Carlos Santana
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,335
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,190
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,186
Carlos Santana’s Light, Spirit, and Soul is a rhythmic journey into the places, spaces, artists, and music that have inspired and informed one of popular music’s most successful artists by any measurable standard. He’s not an entertainer. He’s a communicator of a language that speaks directly to the molecules of listeners across space and time. These are his Words + Music.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Roma Sierk on 09-02-22
- Light, Spirit, and Soul
- Words + Music, Vol. 30
- By: Carlos Santana
- Narrated by: Carlos Santana
Always Beautiful
Reviewed: 10-15-22
To hear the Preacher sermonize. This is not institutional religion! It is enlightenment.
--A Buddhist
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Maud (BBC Radio 4: Classic Serial)
- By: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Narrated by: Joseph Millson, Katheryn Nutbeem
- Length: 56 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5
A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted by his father's suicide and his mother's early death. He blames his father's old friend, the lord of the Hall, for his ruin. The young man was betrothed to Maud, the lord's daughter, when they were children, but she and her family left the area after the suicide. But now there are workmen up at the Hall - Maud has come home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the earliest films ever made...
- By inwitinthemidwest on 10-18-21
- Maud (BBC Radio 4: Classic Serial)
- By: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Narrated by: Joseph Millson, Katheryn Nutbeem
One of the earliest films ever made...
Reviewed: 10-18-21
I have read it many times and listened to this recording more than once. A series of linked poems that tell a dark and beautiful, novelistic story. Repetitious, yes. Alliterative and musical, yes. Full of forest and garden, a rivulet running down a high hill overlooking the sea. As he aged, T, like the Ancient Mariner himself, would recite the entirety of Maud where dinners and dances and gatherings occurred, whenever it was requested. Apparently, sometimes when it was not asked for, he'd recite it anyway, wanting to entertain everyone wirh his theatre of a poem: sentimental, silly with Love, dripping with Death, outlandish and Sublime.
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Spring and All: Facsimile Edition
- New Directions Pearls
- By: William Carlos Williams
- Narrated by: Sean Slater
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century" by The New York Times. Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination - a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of Williams' best-known poetry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-25-18
- Spring and All: Facsimile Edition
- New Directions Pearls
- By: William Carlos Williams
- Narrated by: Sean Slater
An Essential Book
Reviewed: 12-26-20
If you're into poetry, you've seen some of the poems in this prose-mixed-with-poetry-book in WCW collections and other anthologies. But listening to, or reading the entirety of Spring & All, is a completely different experience. This was WCW's main "American" response to Eliot's dystopic (and, let's face it, a bit neurotic) The Waste Land.
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Lunch Poems
- By: Frank O'Hara
- Narrated by: Matthew Weiner
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 216
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Story4 out of 5 stars 193
Frank O'Hara was a pioneering modern American poet and playwright - an art critic, a musician, and a curator at the Museum of Modern Art - who defined New York City in its post-WWII heyday. For many these poems defined the city's midcentury zeitgeist.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mismatched*~
- By Mary K Foster on 09-25-20
- Lunch Poems
- By: Frank O'Hara
- Narrated by: Matthew Weiner
I will always love him
Reviewed: 08-29-20
I will always love him-- one of Murica's finest poets. Sit down & Read this too. Don't only Listen to it...
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Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane
- Words + Music, Vol. 1
- By: Patti Smith
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,760
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,457
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,421
Patti Smith: Words and Music features live audio of performances captured over three evenings at the Minetta Lane Theatre, woven into a single, one-of-a-kind audio event.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An American Treasure, both written and word
- By The Dietsch on 11-02-18
- Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane
- Words + Music, Vol. 1
- By: Patti Smith
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
this is magnifiicent
Reviewed: 06-16-20
a mother, a musician. a widow who is strong and still living her life. a writer with the power of speech. a singer who sings to me. I only wish I could give her my black suit jacket with the red silk lining because.. she'd look great in it, even if it isn't the same as her lost black coat
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
- The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
- By: Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 313
A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else - Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill - from the authors of Furious Love. Drawing on the authors’ candid interviews with Lee Radziwill, The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters explores their complicated relationship, placing them at the center of 20th-century fashion, design, and style. This dual biography sheds light on the public and private lives of two extraordinary women who lived through immense tragedy in enormous glamour.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Sad
- By Laura Ellis on 01-22-19
- The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
- The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
- By: Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Trashy & Fantastic
Reviewed: 07-24-19
I enjoyed this a lot. Bargeloads of familiar gossip, very cleverly configured around the relationship between these two sisters and their differing experiences of their emotionally deprived & materially privileged lives. As a result of this cleverness, many new and quite believable insights are offered here. That JKO was the jock & LR the culture vulture (who schooled JKO on many points) is to me the most significant insight. It carries through everything and explains circumstances, choices, scenarios. LR'ss experiences with Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Baryshnikov add much knowledge about the time period and its travails. LR's long, well-loved life has made a book like this possible-- we're all indebted to her graciousness. A bit too much drumrolling over the "deathbed scene," but thanks, Sam & Co, for taking all the Kennedy-Radziwill road warriors on this freedom ride.
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