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Title: [Hungarian] - A kolozsvári sétatér - Szőcs Géza költeményei Szilágyi Enikő előadásában (teljes)

Author: Szőcs Géza

Narrator: Szilágyi Enikő

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Release date: May 22, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Szőcs Géza (1953-2020) költő, dráma- és esszéíró, filozófus a hetvenes években indult erdélyi költőnemzedék egyik legkarakteresebb, egyben legmegosztóbb alakja. (...) Verseiben egyszerre munkál az agy (vagy elme?) pengeélének a hidege és a szív (vagy lélek?) ecetes szivacsának túlforrósága. Kíméletlenül agyal, amikor gyöngéd és tanácstalan, ám szeretetteli figyelmességgel nyilvánul meg akkor is, amikor ironikusra vált, vagy eljuttatja magát a szarkazmusig. (...) Nincs helyén a Szőcs-költészet, manapság mintha főleg nem. Érthető, bár nem értelmezhető. Ez a hangoskönyv hangos hozzászólás ehhez a lehetetlenséghez. Az értelmezhetetlenséghez, hogy percemberkék dönthetnek súlyos életművek - és életművek utóélete - fölött! Szilágyi Enikő a költővel együtt kezdte a versek könyvvé rendezését. De már egyedül fejezte be. Tudja, érti, vállalja és mondja. Hallgatom, tudom, értem és vállalom. De belefájdulok. Költőtársam volt, hiányzik a megszólítható ember, hiányzik a verses jelenléte. Egy könyv hangjainak idejéig ez a hiány felfüggesztődhet. A férfi, virággal a szájában, ismét közöttünk, bolyong és nyughatatlan.

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Title: [Spanish] - Don Juan (sin abreviar)

Author: Lord Byron

Narrator: Luis Eslava

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Release date: May 21, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

¡Sumérgete en la épica y apasionante historia de 'Don Juan' de Lord Byron, ahora en una cautivadora versión en audiolibro en español! Nuestra excepcional narración te transportará a través de las brillantes y sensuales estrofas de este clásico literario. Cada palabra y cada verso de 'Don Juan' se han preservado en su totalidad, ofreciéndote una experiencia de audición ininterrumpida y completa. Nuestro audiolibro es completamente fiel al texto original, permitiéndote disfrutar de la narrativa vívida y el ingenio satírico de Byron en su máximo esplendor. La narración superior de este audiolibro te envolverá, cautivándote con su expresión y emoción. Cada personaje cobrará vida a través de las voces hábilmente interpretadas, mientras que la entonación y el ritmo te sumergirán en la historia de Don Juan de principio a fin. Además, nuestro audiolibro de 'Don Juan' en español ofrece un valor excepcional por su precio. Con una duración completa y sin abreviaciones, obtendrás horas de entretenimiento y enriquecimiento literario a un precio accesible. No pierdas la oportunidad de disfrutar de este clásico en su forma más vívida y atractiva. Adquiere ahora nuestro audiolibro de 'Don Juan' de Lord Byron en español y embárcate en un viaje literario inolvidable.

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Title: Please make me pretty, I don't want to die: Poems

Series: Part of Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 170

Author: Tawanda Mulalu

Narrator: Tawanda Mulalu

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Release date: May 16, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry Please make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in White America, his time working as a teacher's assistant in a third-grade classroom, and his ambivalent admiration for canonical poets who have influenced him, especially Sylvia Plath. Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections, such as prose-poem 'prayers' and other meditations, the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring—one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image: 'The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country.'

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Title: Home

Author: Whitney Hanson

Narrator: Whitney Hanson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Release date: May 9, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems 'the bees aren’t going to go away but they are going to change with you sometimes they will be chaotic sometimes they will rest sometimes they will give you sweet honey and sometimes they will remind you of how much love can sting but if you can find a home within yourself and make peace with your bees you will be alright” --from Home Resonant, raw, and vibrant, Home is a lyrical map to navigating heartbreak. Tracing the stages of healing—from the despair that comes with the end of a relationship to the eventual light and liberation that comes with time—the poems in Home provide comfort and solace, while revitalizing your soul—and helping you make peace with your bees.

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Title: The A.A. Milne Collection - Winnie-the-Pooh - The House at Pooh Corner - When We Were Very Young - Now We Are Six - Unabridged

Author: A. A. Milne

Narrator: Sara Nichols, Kevin Theis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Presented here are the complete stories and poems of Winnie-the-Pooh, as originally conceived and published by his creator, the legendary children’s book author A.A. Milne.  Pooh and all of his friends are here: Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, Roo and, of course, Christopher Robin. As they explore the Hundred Acre Wood, they have all sorts of adventures: tracking the Heffalump, visiting with Rabbit (and getting stuck in a Very Tight Place), dressing up as a little black rain cloud to get honey from the bees and even going on an 'expotition' to the North Pole! Along with these tales are two full collections of Milne's poems which have gone on to become some of the most beloved verses in all of children's literature.   The complete Pooh collection: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six are presented here in their original and unabridged format.

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Title: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Unabridged)

Author: William Blake

Narrator: Nick Duncan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 40 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake is a book by the English poet and printmaker William Blake. It is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs. Like his other books, it was published as printed sheets from etched plates containing prose, poetry, and illustrations. The plates were then coloured by Blake and his wife Catherine. It opens with an introduction of a short poem entitled 'Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air'. William Blake claims that John Milton was a true poet and his epic poem Paradise Lost was 'of the Devil's party without knowing it'. He also claims that Milton's Satan was truly his Messiah. The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical ferment and political conflict during the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell, published in Latin 33 years earlier. Swedenborg is directly cited and criticized by Blake in several places in the Marriage. Though Blake was influenced by his grand and mystical cosmic conception, Swedenborg's conventional moral strictures and his Manichaean view of good and evil led Blake to express a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are equally part of the divine order; hence, a marriage of heaven and hell. The book is written in prose, except for the opening 'Argument' and the 'Song of Liberty'. The book describes the poet's visit to Hell, a device adopted by Blake from Dante's Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost. Interpretation: Blake's theory of contraries was not a belief in opposites but rather a belief that each person reflects the contrary nature of God, and that progression in life is impossible without contraries. Moreover, he explores the contrary nature of reason and of energy, believing that two types of people existed: the 'energetic creators' and the 'rational organizers', or, as he calls them in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the 'devils' and 'angels'. Both are necessary to life according to Blake. Blake's text has been interpreted in many ways. It certainly forms part of the revolutionary culture of the period. The references to the printing-house suggest the underground radical printers producing revolutionary pamphlets at the time. Ink-blackened printworkers were comically referred to as a 'printer's devil', and revolutionary publications were regularly denounced from the pulpits as the work of the devil.

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Title: Paradise Regained (Unabridged)

Author: John Milton

Narrator: Anna Roberts, Michael Sample, Greg Hartley, Sibella Denton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Paradise Regained by John Milton is a poem by English poet John Milton, first published in 1671. The volume in which it appeared also contained the poet's closet drama Samson Agonistes. Paradise Regained is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes; indeed, its title, its use of blank verse, and its progression through Christian history recall the earlier work. However, this effort deals primarily with the temptation of Christ as recounted in the Gospel of Luke. Plot: Book 1 Jesus is baptized by John. Satan, seeing this, calls a meeting of demons to plot against him, confident he can fool Christ as he fooled Adam. Meanwhile God tells the angels Satan is overconfident, and they sing God's praise. Jesus enters the wilderness and fasts there for 40 days, pondering His past and future. A seeming old man of the desert asks him as Son of God to turn stones into bread. Jesus, recognizing Satan, rebukes him for his lies. Satan pretends to be delighted to hear truth and begs permission to stay. Jesus says he can do whatever the Father in heaven allows. Night falls. Book 2 Simon and Andrew saw Jesus baptized and realize He is Messiah, but lose Him and search for Him. They worry they have lost Him for good. Mary too wonders what has become of her Son, remembering that she lost him once before when He was 12. Satan returns to his demons, warning them this temptation is going to be far more difficult than the Fall of man. Belial advises using a honey trap, but Satan knows this will not work, thinking pride a stronger test. Jesus, hungry, dreams of Elijah being fed by ravens. Waking, he finds a fair man and a banquet waiting for Him, but He again resists. Satan next tries to tempt with money, but Jesus reminds him that King David started as a mere shepherd. Book 3 Satan flatters Christ, praising His wisdom, then taunts Him with his lack of achievement, saying Alexander the Great had conquered half the world at 30. Jesus rejects gaining glory by violent means. Satan next tries goading him with duty, saying Judas Maccabeus gained glory for God by fighting the pagans. But Jesus sees suffering as the path he must tread. Book 4 Satan next shows Christ Rome, and offers it to Him. Christ once more rejects. Satan says all the kingdoms of the world are his to bestow if only Christ will bow the knee. Christs rebukes him for this blasphemy, quoting Exodus chapter 20.

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Title: Poems of William Blake (Unabridged)

Author: William Blake

Narrator: Sam Stinson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 54 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Audiobook Summary: 1 - Songs of Innocence 2 - Songs of Experience 3 - The Book of Thel Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first published by itself in 1789, it is believed that Songs of Experience has always been published in conjunction with Innocence since its completion in 1794. Songs of Innocence mainly consists of poems describing the innocence and joy of the natural world, advocating free love and a closer relationship with God, and most famously including Blake's poem The Lamb. Its poems have a generally light, upbeat and pastoral feel and are typically written from the perspective of children or written about them. Directly contrasting this, Songs of Experience instead deals with the loss of innocence after exposure to the material world and all of its mortal sin during adult life, including works such as The Tyger. Poems here are darker, concentrating on more political and serious themes. Throughout both books, many poems fall into pairs, so that a similar situation or theme can be seen in both Innocence and Experience. Many of the poems appearing in Songs of Innocence have a counterpart in Songs of Experience with opposing perspectives of the world. The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the volume's sense of despair. Blake also believed that children lost their innocence through exploitation and from a religious community which put dogma before mercy. He did not, however, believe that children should be kept from becoming experienced entirely. In truth, he believed that children should indeed become experienced but through their own discoveries, which is reflected in a number of these poems. Blake believed that innocence and experience were 'the two contrary states of the human soul', and that true innocence was impossible without experience. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen-syllable line. It was preceded by Tiriel, which Blake left in manuscript. A few lines from Tiriel were incorporated into The Book of Thel. This book consists of eight plates executed in illuminated printing. 15 copies of original print of 1789-1793 are known. Two copies have watermark of 1815, which are more elaborately colored than the others.

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Title: Astrophil and Stella (Unabridged)

Author: Sir Philip Sidney

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney Probably composed in the 1580s, Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella is an English sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. The name derives from the two Greek words, 'aster' (star) and 'phil' (lover), and the Latin word 'stella' meaning star. Thus Astrophil is the star lover, and Stella is his star. Sidney partly nativized the key features of his Italian model Petrarch, including an ongoing but partly obscure narrative, the philosophical trappings of the poet in relation to love and desire, and musings on the art of poetic creation. Sidney also adopts the Petrarchan rhyme scheme, though he uses it with such freedom that fifteen variants are employed. Some have suggested that the love represented in the sequence may be a literal one as Sidney evidently connects Astrophil to himself and Stella to Lady Penelope, thought to be Penelope Devereux (1563-1607), later Lady Rich, the wife of Robert Rich, 3rd Baronet. Sidney and Lady Penelope had been betrothed when the latter was a child. For some reason the match was broken off, and Lady Penelope married Lord Rich, with whom she lived for a while most unhappily. Payne and Hunter suggest that modern criticism, though not explicitly rejecting this connection, leans more towards the viewpoint that writers happily create a poetic persona, artificial and distinct from themselves. Publishing history: Many of the poems were circulated in manuscript form before the first edition was printed by Thomas Newman in 1591, five years after Sidney's death. This edition included ten of Sidney's songs, a preface by Thomas Nashe and verses from other poets including Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel and the Earl of Oxford. he text was allegedly copied down by a man in the employ of one of Sidney's associates, thus it was full of errors and misreadings that eventually led to Sidney's friends ensuring that the unsold copies were impounded. Newman printed a second version later in the year, and though the text was more accurate it was still flawed. The version of Astrophil and Stella commonly used is found in the folio of the 1598 version of Sidney's Arcadia. Though still not completely free from error, this was prepared under the supervision of his sister the Countess of Pembroke and is considered the most authoritative text available. All known versions of Astrophil and Stella have the poems in the same order, making it almost certain that Sidney determined their sequence.

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Title: The Cultured Bumpkin Presents: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrator: Jake Phillips

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 29 minutes

Release date: May 3, 2023

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic poem about a sailor who shot an albatross and the woe that followed him afterwards. Narrated by professional voice actor Jake Phillips, host of The Cultured Bumpkin literature podcast.