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Title: Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Author: Kai Cheng Thom

Narrator: Kai Cheng Thom

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Release date: August 1, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A national bestseller in Canada, hailed by The New York Times as an “intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others.” “Required reading.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 bestselling author of Untamed A THEM AND AUTOSTRADDLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD What happens when we imagine loving the people—and the parts of ourselves—that we do not believe are worthy of love? Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she’s always pursued the same deeply personal mission: to embrace the revolutionary belief that every human being, no matter how hateful or horrible, is intrinsically sacred. But then Kai Cheng found herself in a crisis of faith, overwhelmed by the viciousness with which people treated one another, and barely clinging to the values and ideals she’d built her life around: justice, hope, love, and healing. Rather than succumb to despair and cynicism, she gathered all her rage and grief and took one last leap of faith: she wrote. Whether prayers or spells or poems—and whether there’s a difference—she wrote to affirm the outcasts and runaways she calls her kin. She wrote to flawed but nonetheless lovable men, to people with good intentions who harm their own, to racists and transphobes seemingly beyond saving. What emerged was a blueprint for falling back in love with being human.

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Title: Softening Time: Collected Poems

Author: Elena Brower

Narrator: Elena Brower

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Release date: July 11, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

From beloved yogi, teacher, and artist Elena Brower comes the writer’s debut collection of poetry: a lyrical exploration of grief, self-compassion, and learning from the past to navigate life’s challenges with grace. Softening Time is both autobiography and self-help, poetry and inspiration. Drawing on events in her own life, particularly her experiences as a mother, daughter, sister, and friend, Brower writes poignantly on themes of love, loss, healing, and rebirth.   Punctuating her work with themed quotations from a wide variety of celebrated writers and thinkers, Brower guides the reader along an intimate journey of both deepening and “softening” self-awareness.

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Title: [German] - Der schöne 27. September (ungekürzt)

Author: Thomas Brasch

Narrator: Lars Eidinger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 46 minutes

Release date: July 4, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Der bekannteste Gedichtband von Thomas Brasch erschien 1980 - vier Jahre nach seiner Ausreise aus der DDR. Im selben Jahr wurde ihm der FAZ-Preis für Literatur verliehen, zur Begründung hieß es: '... Diese Verse, die sich gleichermaßen durch hohe Musikalität wie durch scharfe Intellektualität auszeichnen, tragen zur Erneuerung traditioneller Formen der deutschen Lyrik bei, zumal des Lieds und der Ballade, und weisen Thomas Brasch als poetischen Sprecher seiner Generation aus.' Persönlicher formulierte es Peter Schneider: 'Hier beginnt einer, der sich von vielen Sprechweisen beeinflussen lässt und viele beherrscht, ganz auf die eigene Stimme zu hören und sich hinzuschreiben auf einen Tag, eine Stunde, einen Augenblick; so in dem Titelgedicht 'Der schöne 27. September'.' Und weiter: 'Bei ihm füllen sich die Leertasten hinter der Zeile, die Leerzeilen zwischen den Strophen mit den Worten, die nicht gesagt werden, mit den Bildern und Träumen, die sich der Sprache verweigern.'

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Title: [Spanish] - Lo que tarda algo en irse (Completo)

Author: Lucía Vargas Caparroz

Narrator: Lucía Vargas Caparroz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 37 minutes

Release date: June 23, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

'¿Quiénes son los descendientes de los maestros del haiku? Uno piensa que deben estar en Japón o en otras latitudes, y no sólo eso, que deben ser ancianos y barbudos. Pero no. Los tenemos en Latinoamérica, y Lucía Vargas es una. Basta abrir este libro para comprobar que ella posee la mirada entrenada del sabio, que sabe comulgar con la naturaleza, que doma los símbolos y que cuenta con una precisión verbal y una sensibilidad insólita. Lo que tarda algo en irse es su primer poemario, un libro hecho con nostalgia, lágrimas, asombro y amor, que se centra en el movimiento perpetuo y en la imposibilidad que tenemos de detenerlo. No es por otra razón que en uno de los poemas más memorables de esta colección escribe: Ahí en ese rato que se queda es donde quiero vivir siempre: el momento antes de volverme otra cosa, el minuto antes de la pérdida, el instante antes del miedo. Es en ese 'ahí' donde está ubicada la casa de la poesía. Y Lucía Vargas lo sabe. De ahí ha recuperado las preciosas instantáneas de su memoria que colman este poemario. La alquimia verbal no solo ha transformado esas sensaciones e imágenes en lenguaje, sino también a la misma poeta. Por lo que ahora, nuestra encomienda como lectores, es estudiar sus palabras y dejar que estas nos llenen de su luz'. Frank Báez

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Title: [German] - Edgar Allan Poe: Der Eroberer Wurm: 13 Gedichte von Liebe, Tod und Wiederkehr

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Jürgen Fritsche

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 48 minutes

Release date: June 23, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Edgar Allan Poe war nicht nur meisterhafter Erzähler weltberühmter Gruselgeschichten, er schrieb auch zahlreiche romantische Gedichte, die die Themen Liebe und Verlust, Romantik und Grusel, Tod und Wiederkehr behandelten. Hier vertreten: An Helene, Annabel Lee, An Annie, Der Rabe, Der Eroberer Wurm, Eulalie, Die Glocken, Israfel, Das Kolosseum, Das ruhlose Tal, Die Schläferin, Das verwunschene Schloss, Ulalume.

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Title: [Spanish] - Me llamo cuerpo que no está: Poesía completa

Author: Cristina Rivera Garza

Narrator: Kerygma Flores

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Release date: June 22, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

La poesía de Cristina Rivera Garza reunida por primera vez en un sólo volumen. «En los poemas de Cristina Rivera Garza hay sopas instantáneas, sillas de plástico color naranja, mandarinas desgajadas, batas de franela, lentejuelas, rímel y risas, una cajera cuando devuelve el cambio, papas fritas, té de menta o té de naranja o té de jazmín, Valium, dos cajas de Marlboro light, trescientas aspirinas, vasos de leche, flores de plástico, botes de basura, escritorios de metal, latas de sardinas, cables de teléfono, ambulancias, rocolas. También hay personajes como la Mujer Enorme, la Ex-durmiente, la Ex-Muerta, la Diabla, la Bestia, Los Sumergidos, los Desamparados y los Solos y los de Tres Corazones Bajo el Pecho. Además de algunas de las frases con las que suelen iniciar los cuentos infantiles —para sumergirnos en una suerte de ensoñación o enrarecimiento, propicios de la clase de historias que estamos a punto de leer—: Había una vez. O dos. Érase que se era. Érase que fue o que habría sido. La poesía de Cristina Rivera Garza es una carretera bífida: un camino que se bifurca entre la materialidad más tangible y rotunda y la posibilidad de lo contingente, de lo que podría o no suceder. Sus poemas son un lugar donde es viable que lo que es sea; pero, sobre todo, y como anhelaba Alejandra Pizarnik: que sea lo que no es.» Del prólogo de Sara Uribe.

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Title: Poems of the Night: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrator: Juanita Devis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A dual-language volume of poems on darkness and light—many appearing in English for the first time—by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century   Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly to the blindness that overtook Borges late in life—and yet the poems here are drawn from the full span of Borges's career.   Featuring such poems as 'History of the Night' and 'In Praise of Darkness' and more than fifty others in luminous translations by an array of distinguished translators—among them W. S. Merwin, Christopher Maurer, Alan Trueblood, and Alastair Reid—this volume brings to light many poems that have never appeared in English, presenting them en face with their Spanish originals.

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Title: The Sonnets: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrator: Juanita Devis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Release date: June 20, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—in English and Spanish This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, paying homage to many of his literary and philosophical paragons—Cervantes, Milton, Whitman, Emerson, Joyce, Spinoza—while at the same time engaging the mysteries immanent in the quotidian.   A distinguished team of translators—Edith Grossman, Willis Barnstone, John Updike, Mark Strand, Robert Fitzgerald, Alastair Reid, Charles Tomlinson, and Stephen Kessler—lend their gifts to these sonnets, many of which appear here in English for the first time, and all of which accompany their Spanish originals on facing pages.

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Title: The Prophet and Other Stories

Author: Khalil Gibran

Narrator: Dennis Kleinman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Release date: June 15, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Dennis Kleinman’s mesmerizing narration of Khalil Gibran’s great classic introduces The Prophet, The Madman and The Forerunner to a new generation. This inspiring recording is followed by a candid conversation between Dennis Kleinman and Alison Larkin in which they talk openly about how deeply affected they were, personally, by the experience of re-visiting this great work. The Prophet, first published in 1923, is the third most-sold book of its kind, after Shakespeare and the Chinese poet Laoze.

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Title: [Russian] - Konstantin Balmont Poetry of year 1894

Author: Konstantin Balmont

Narrator: Tim Mirkin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Release date: June 12, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Balmont's lyrical prowess shines through his poignant verses, offering readers a profound exploration of themes such as love, nature, spirituality, and the human experience. With exquisite language and evocative imagery, Balmont's poems evoke a range of emotions, transporting readers into a world where beauty and introspection intertwine. Year 1894, 51 poem. Narrated by Tim Mirkin. Please note - this book is in Russian language.