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Titel: Die Odyssee

Autor:: Homer

Erzähler: Mathias Wieman, Kurt Horwitz, Agnes Fink

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 8 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-16-13

Herausgeber: SWR Edition

Kategorien: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Odysseus, Herrscher von Ithaka, möchte nach einem 10-jährigen Feldzug und dem Sieg gegen Troja in seine Heimat zurückkehren. Die Götter meinen es jedoch nicht gut mit ihm, sodass er lange im Mittelmeer treibt und weit von der Heimat entfernt strandet. Währenddessen begibt sich sein mittlerweile volljähriger Sohn auf die Suche nach ihm, da das Haus seiner Mutter von Freiern belagert wird, die darauf trachten, Odysseus zu "beerben". Nach langen Reisen und vielen Abenteuern treffen sich die beiden bei einem Schweinehirt in Ithaka und "beseitigen" die Freier.

©1959 SWR (P)1959 SWR

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Title: The Great Poets: John Masefield

Author: John Masefield

Narrator: Ronald Pickup

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-13

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

John Masefield (18781967) was one of the most prolific, popular and successful poets of the twentieth century. Masefield broke upon Edwardian literature with the startling work entitled "The Everlasting Mercy," which described the spiritual enlightenment of a drunken poacher. Over the span of his lifetime, he was appointed Poet Laureate and amassed a large number of admirers, which included such high-profile names as John Betjeman, Robert Graves and W.B. Yeats. This collection contains 36 poems and spans Masefield's entire career. There are early poems from "Salt-Water Ballads" (1902) and "Ballads" (1903), followed by extracts from the narrative poems "The Everlasting Mercy," "Dauber" and "Reynard the Fox." The selection also includes a number of sonnets including "On Growing Old", as well as his poetry on the Romans, alongside a number of rarities.

Members Reviews:

Joe, The Shrimpboat Man

What made the experience of listening to The Great Poets: John Masefield the most enjoyable?

Joe was a man I knew for a short while, fifty tears ago. He loved poetry and would just burst out with poetry at any given time for long periods of time....usually it was 'Sea Fever'...he spent ten years at sea and memorized many Masefields poems....Now I see why. Ode to you Joe..

What does Ronald Pickup bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

He is the Poet!

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

On Growing Old.

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Title: Storms Beneath the Skin

Subtitle: Slam Poetry

Author: Regie Gibson

Narrator: Regie Gibson

Format: Original Recording

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-13

Publisher: EM Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

National Poetry Slam champ and subject of the loosely autobiographical film Love Jones, Gibson's Storms Beneath the Skin is a musical homage to his heros, written and read with soul, erotic reveries, and cosmic sensibility. Gibson's stage presence is akin to Mick Jagger's; he is easily one of the best slam poets to ever take the stage. This collection includes two versions of his famous poem "Jimi Christ".

"You sing and chant for all of us. Nobody gets left out."

Kurt Vonnegut, 1998

Editorial Reviews:

Slam poetry is primarily a spoken art, which is why listeners must absorb a vocal performance in order to experience the full effect of the words. In Storms Beneath the Skin, Regie Gibson, winner of the 1998 National Slam Competition and inspiration for the movie Love Jones, performs his poems in front of a live audience. His joyful, funny, and energetic delivery is clearly bolstered by the enthusiastic responses of the crowd. A listener can hear how the blues, jazz, and Jimi Hendrix have all influenced the award-winning performer, not only through the melodious nature of Gibsons slam poetry itself, but also through the strength of several musical accompaniments.

Members Reviews:

Poetry Beyond the Speed of Sound

The initial release of EM Press did not simply fly a few feet for a few seconds; it broke free from the earths gravity and flew to the moon. This is like NASA, instead shooting mammals into orbit, making it to the moon on the first try. Storms Beneath the Skin is Regie Gibsons long overdue first poetry book. The meandering Slam minstrel has not stood still long enough in the last ten years for his words to be crystallized in print. For the poet described by Kurt Vonnegut as singing and chanting for all of us, Storms Beneath the Skin represents an audacious and auspicious debut in print. Behind the cover design by Gregory Harms featuring four epidermal close-ups is the first collection of poetry from one entrenched in the pantheon of Slam Poetry. The greatest poetry is elusively familiar, spiritually sensual, and harrowingly gentle. The 38 selections in Storms Beneath the Skin are divided into five sections: Chants, an invocation, coos, suite, and Canticles and Curses. Storms irradiates with dangerous diversity of word and theme. The initial poem, Alchemy, is a succinct critique of tone-deaf academicians who reduce language to grammar in the same way materialists reduce spirit to matterIn great poetry, language startles us, gyrating in new combinations: cotton-myth our stories; daughter of desert/and dostoyevski; sightraped hunter and musebruise. Storms startles us, from the chants to the haikus: u came on snake wings u red turjid gitar licks u left d same way.The Old Guard snivels at the New Poetic Proletarians like Regie Gibson. The Old Guard doubts that the word can make the transition from the stage to page. The fireworks on stage, they believe, conceal deep deficiencies in poetic formation. When you [Regie] perform, writes Vonnegut, you are supersonic and in the stratosphere, where you can see that the earth really is a ball, moist, blue-green. Audiences in the Slam World are dazzled by Gibsons bewitchingly/bleedin performance of the eulogy of jimi Christ, an ode to Jimi Hendrix. The Old Guard views Slam Poetry as a mutation of their hallowed Tradition of Pretentiousness and Less Than Effusive Presentations of the Word.

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Title: Slingshots

Subtitle: A Hip-Hop Poetica

Author: Kevin Coval

Narrator: Kevin Coval

Format: Original Recording

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-13

Publisher: EM Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Chicago poet and co-founder of the largest teen youth poetry slam in the country, Kevin Coval's readings and performances of his first book of poems, Slingshots, is boldy beautiful with its hip-hop manifestos. Coval is one of the first poets to merge hip-hop and poetry into the slam discussion. He very well could be the Chicago heir to the Chicago legend Studs Terkel.

Editorial Reviews:

Kevin Coval co-founded Louder Than a Bomb, an annual poetry slam for teen spoken word poets throughout Chicago. Coval teaches writing within Chicago and travels the world to perform. Coval has won critical and popular praise for his poetry and journalism. Spoken word and hip-hop are similar in that they both derive from the African oral storytelling tradition, and combine word and rhythm to address personal and societal concerns. In Slingshots: A Hip Hop Poetica Coval highlights his skill at weaving tense, thoughtful observations and declarations into explosive yet sensitive poems. This half-hour audio allows Coval to showcase his words in his own compelling voice. This dynamic performance will remind listeners of famed orators like Studs Terkel, Lenny Bruce, and KRS One.

Critic Reviews:

"This is one of my favorite poets," Mos Def"...important, maybe even essential words to live by." (Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune)

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Title: Quarters in the Jukebox

Subtitle: Slam Poetry

Author: Marc Kelly Smith

Narrator: Marc Kelly Smith

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-13

Publisher: EM Press

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Marc Kelly Smith began the slam poetry movement in Chicago, over 25 years ago. One of the original perfroamnce poets, Smith's poetry slam concept has navigated the planet. There are over 200 poetry slams in the country, 100 overseas, and the term itself has become part of the everyday vernacular. This audiobook of Smith's performances captures the iconoclast's skilled combination of word and performance merged together. Marc Smith is the model by which poetry slams have been built. Featuring Marc Smith's most famous poem, "My Father's Coat".

Editorial Reviews:

In Quarters in the Jukebox, slam poet Marc Kelly Smith performs his work, including such well-loved poems as "My Fathers Coat".

Smith is the founding father of the Slam Poetry genre, known for keeping one ear on rhythm and the other on the social-political pulse the world. Quarters in the Jukebox showcases Smith's unique combination of virtuosic word-smithing and intensely emotional performance. Poetry lovers will cherish this full hour of classic Marc Kelly Smith.

Critic Reviews:

"Like it or not, Mr. Smith's concept has become a global phenomenon, especially among young people." (The New York Times)

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Title: Call of the Kami

Author: Teresa Huddleston-Garcia

Narrator: Andrea C. Missias

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-13

Publisher: Teresa Huddleston-Garcia

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Magic is that breath never quite caught,

Flowing always just behind the scenes,

And only glimpsed when sought.

The spirits of the past and present call out to those with the ears to hear. The worlds of the Kami and Mankind are not far apart, and perhaps the border is only in the mind. Primarily this was intended to be a collection of poetry inspired by and retelling some stories from Japanese mythology and feeling the path of Shinto generated while working on my first novel. However, it has become much more. Meditate upon the poems and a flower unfolds slowly before your eyes, allowing a glimpse into a world unseen.

Members Reviews:

Excellent performance of poetry and folklore

Where does Call of the Kami rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

So far Call of the Kami holds first place among all the audiobooks that I've listened to over the years.

What other book might you compare Call of the Kami to and why?

This book is unique in my opinion, but can be related to "The Essence of Shinto" and the reading of that book would only add new layers to both the poems and the narrator's performance.

What about Andrea C. Missiass performance did you like?

I loved how easily the narrator slipped through the rhythms of the poems. Even the prose she captured the poetry and imagery in. Her voice fit the book perfectly.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Rain Spirit's Loss or Gain was the point that most deeply moved me while listening. Clay Bowl ranks number two in most moving moments.

Any additional comments?

Although the book is primarily poetry and composed of several different poems the whole tells the overall story of the miko's journey. Listening we hear how the miko is more than what we may at first think.

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Title: On Poets and Others

Author: Octavio Paz

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning author discusses Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Baudelaire, Jean Paul Sartre, Luis Bunuel, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among other fellow poets and writers.

Editorial Reviews:

Exploring the canon of fellow poets and writers, Mexican poet, writer, diplomat, and 1990 Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz reveals a great deal about himself. The 16 essays that form On Poets and Poetry are read by the classically-trained actor and three-time AudioFile Earphones Award-winner Paul Michael Garcia, who delivers them with respect and clarity, doing full justice to Pazs insights into the works of, among others, Walt Whitman, José Ortega y Gasset, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The result is a unique slice of autobiography created through the use of the lives and works of others.

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Title: Stardines Swim High Across the Sky

Subtitle: And Other Poems

Author: Jack Prelutsky

Narrator: Jack Prelutsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-13

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The poet, author, and indomitable naturalist Jack Prelutsky, having returned safely from far-flung places with an extensive collection of unique creatures that are a blending of the animate and inanimate, has worked in close collaboration with the fine artist Carin Berger, who herself conducted considerable field operations in preparing Mr. Prelutsky's specimens for exhibition and publication. While many creatures (two dozen species in all) were discovered and recorded and their precise qualities examined, we are presenting sixteen here for the first time and for the enjoyment and education of the general public.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic poems for your little ones!

Children love a good rhyme, and beloved childrenâs poet Jack Prelutsky has done it again with this winning collection of endearing poems in his newest book. "Stardines Swim High Across the Sky" is filled with poems featuring fictitious animals whose names are each a play on words. These pages are populated with creatures like the bluffalo, the jollyfish, the magpipe, and the fountain lion. The accompanying pictures are a delight, too. But perhaps what parents will enjoy best about this collection is how well-written the poems are and how extensive of a vocabulary they promote. Phrases like âTheir buoyant effervescence / Gives the neighborhood a liftâ and âTheyâre strangers to frivolity / And neither sing nor danceâ not only contain big words, but their context within the sentence will also help youngsters to understand their meaning. Each animal has a unique personality: wedgehogs are considerate, chormorants are busy, and plandas keep making plans for things they never actually do. Children will ask for this book over and over again, and parents will be more than happy to oblige. Donâs miss it!

Review originally published on "San Francisco Book Review."

Great book for children of many ages

Great book for children of many ages. Fun, silly rhymes which my 6 year old son enjoys sounding out. A quick but fulfilling nighttime read, with some teachable vocabulary. Strongly recommend.

Four Stars

Very well done

Excellent book!

Excellent book!

I teach 3rd grade and we will definitely use it for creative writing.

I highly recommend this book.

Stardines by Jack Prelutsky

The book arrived promptly and in the condition it was advertised. As to content, I love the creativity in the illustrations and the clever ness of the poems

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Title: Anathema!: Litanies of Negation

Author: Benjamin DeCasseres

Narrator: Kevin I. Slaughter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-13

Publisher: Underworld Amusments

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A long-form poem of negation and egoism, of scorn and cynical delight.

©2013 Kevin I. Slaughter (P)2013 Kevin I. Slaughter

Critic Reviews:

"There is but one Benjamin DeCasseres. And he is perhaps the one living wonder of the literary world. It is fortunate that such an one must be born, that he cannot be made; especially that he cannot be imitated, for if every one wrote like DeCasseres readers would go mad. That he can keep in any semblance of thought-order such whirls of words is something to marvel at. Yet to read him once, twice, is to experience the greatest mental exhilaration." (The New York Times)

"Benjamin DeCasseres (is) the Pontius Pilate of America." (H.L. Mencken)

"A passionate, erratic poet...strives to shake the foundation of the world." (The Saturday Review of Literature)

Members Reviews:

Be Prepared

I began this on my morning drive. You WILL need to recap. Kevin is FANTASTIC!

Salvation in a sneer.

Would you consider the audio edition of Anathema!: Litanies of Negation to be better than the print version?

It is better than the print in that you get fantastic production and a marvelous narrator- with a dynamic voice and obvious passion for the work.

What did you like best about this story?

It is provocative and inspiring and quite funny at times.

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Title: Robert Browning: Selected Poems

Author: Robert Browning

Narrator: Greg Wagland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-12

Publisher: Magpie Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Selected Poems by Robert Browning (1812-1889) is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio. The selection is as follows:

Members Reviews:

Burying the Bishop, Disinterring the Shorter Poems

Any additional comments?

Born (as was Charles Dickens) in 1812; died (as did Gerard Manley Hopkins) in 1889, Robert Browning (part Romantic, part Victorian, and certainly part Modern) remains one of the most influential yet controversial literary giants of the 19th Century. Controversial? Henry James called him "a poet without a lyre." Oscar Wilde acknowledged that Browning had a lyre but that its strings were broken, famously remarking, "He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose." Yet both men admired him as a consummate creator of character, rivaling Shakespeare. These evaluations notwithstanding, those of us who vaguely remember Browning from high school as the quintessential composer of blank-verse dramatic monologues, will perhaps be surprised and delighted at the range of rhythmic -- and rhyming -- patterns the poems in this collection show. Indeed, in a market fairly saturated with wonderful E.B.B. and R. Browning offerings, it was savvy of acclaimed British actor Greg Wagland to concentrate here on shorter, lyrical poems that I, as a casual Browning fan, was unfamiliar with. But how, with the aforementioned embarrassment of riches, does one choose one Robert Browning audiobook? If, as publisher-critic Michael Schmidt has written, "we read [poetry] with our ears," I would rephrase this by saying that if we're lucky, we also hear it with our eyes. But I'm not lucky; unlike prose, I MUST HEAR poetry, and the nature of (especially) this particular poet's oeuvre is such that he demands to be heard in dramatically polished recordings such as this one by Wagland the new kid on the Browning block. (At Audible you can also compare veteran voice actors David Timson and Patience Tomlinson's superb collaboration, with James Mason's iconic portrayals of disturbed priests and uxoricidal husbands; you can purchase 3 to 15-minute readings by Cathy Dobson, or at the other extreme Frederick Davidson's 5-hour (!) monotone marathon.) Obviously narrators differ in vocal tone and timbre, as well as interpretive approach. For these reasons alone you and I may prefer different readers. On a theoretical continuum from straight-up reading to the over-wrought ACTING so preciously satirized by Jon Lovitz's SNL sketches, Greg Wagland lands in the golden middle: not quite understated; pensive but not subdued. That said, unlike say Davidson (who always sounds like Davidson), Wagland's tone varies as it should depending upon the poem, and his interpretations are always moving and dead on. The poems on this audiobook, listed in ORDER, are: 1. The Bishop Orders his Tomb ... 2. The Lost Leader 3. Love Among the Ruins. 4. Up at a Villa ... 5. A Woman's Last Word. 6. A Toccata ... 7. Love in a Life. 8. Life in a Love. 10. Two in the Campagna 11. Dubiety 12. Apparent Failure 13. Prospice 14. Soliloquy ... 15. A Grammarian's Funeral 16. Pictor Ignatius 17. My Star. All poems but the first one rhyme. So much for high-school memories and Oscar Wilde.