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Title: William Blake

Subtitle: Poems

Author: William Blake

Narrator: Nicol Williamson

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-06

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

William Blake's highly personal messages of humanity and social conscience are as relevant today as in 18th-century London. Although Blake's works were ignored or dismissed until long after his death, their directness and unsentimental simplicity will strike a chord with many today.

©1996 HighBridge Company; (P)1995 Hodder Headline Audiobooks

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Titel: Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland

Autor:: Friedrich Hölderlin

Erzähler: Reiner Unglaub

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-15-06

Herausgeber: hoerbuchproduktionen.de

Kategorien: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Kaum ein Hörer wird dieses Hörbuch ohne tiefe Ergriffenheit beiseite legen. Philosophie und Poesie sind in diesem Roman zu einer einzigartigen Dichtung verschmolzen, die einmalig in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte ist. Hyperions Ringen um die Einheit mit der Natur, seine Liebe zu Diotima, seine Vaterlands- und Menschenliebe bilden ein prophetisches Vermächtnis, das vielleicht erst heute, fast 200 Jahre später, in seiner vollen Bedeutung erfaßt werden kann.

© 2002 Verlag und Studio für Hörbuchproduktionen Marburg

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Title: What Teachers Make

Author: Taylor Mali

Narrator: Taylor Mali

Length: 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-05

Publisher: Words Worth Ink

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

"The evolution of Taylor Mali the poet could be measured in the number of people his poetry has directly inspired to be teachers. Or the increasing cast of high school and college-age students who perform his words in forensic competitions. It could be measured in national poetry slam competitions. But I believe the poet is only as good as his words, and there is no better showcase for the words of Taylor Mali than this incredible collection of live performances. This is Taylor in his element: performing in front of live and writhing audiences demanding and receiving all the rough, raw, and authentic passion of Taylor Mali's poetry." By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, from the liner notes to Conviction.

Members Reviews:

Inspiring

I first heard this during a difficult time of year when teaching fifth grade in Brooklyn, NY. I played over and over for all my colleagues. He's 100% correct in his response to teachers' "high" salaries. Teachers make a difference in ways that only teachers really understand.

Outstanding performance, inspiring message

I love his passion. I love the values he emphasized. I love that he shows how much he cares about each student. It was short but very worth it.

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Title: War Poems

Author: various

Narrator: Paul McGann, Regine Candler

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The selection of poems, both familiar and less so, provides an illuminating context both for the bitter denunciation of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and for Katherine Tynan's portrayal of the First World War as necessary, just, and Christian, while other poems consider the devastating impact of war on those friends, family, and loved ones who remain behind.

The collection also includes works by Anne Finch, Louisa Costello, Byron, Tennyson, Kipling, Hardy, Graves, Sassoon, Brooke, Jessie Pope, May Wedderburn Cannan, Walt Whitman, Henry Reed, Adrian Mitchell, and Roger McGough among many others.

Members Reviews:

Very touching! War requires much sacrifice and hardship. ...

Very touching! War requires much sacrifice and hardship. Let us always, always honor those who have served and fought for us. Most current poets in this collection fought in WWI and WWII - some gave their lives... along with their poems. The poetry expressed a full range of emotions: pride, compassion, courage, bitterness, anger, anguish, even laughter. Regardless of how the combatants felt, none quit. Let us all be grateful and salute them for their dedication.

The collection covers the Classics excerpts, the U.S. Revolution, the U.S. Civil War, the two World Wars and after.

Excellent Format!

The poetry is pretty good, too. I like this format very much. likely will get more of these books. As for the poetry, it is selected for its quality and not for the political positions it may take. One need not be a war-monger or a peace-monger to enjoy it. One need only appreciate good poetry.

Soldiers across the ages

I wish I could share this collection with every soldier. Reading these poems stirred emotions in me that I don't have the ability to self-express, but in reading I find reflection, recognition and even understanding. With more than one hundred of the most memorable poems ever penned I cannot imagine that this will not also be true for every soldier fortunate enough to explore these pages.

I last purchased this in January of 2010 and paid $4.98. Shipping & Handling added another $3.99 to my order total

A great collection of prose

I thoroughly enjoyed thumbing through this volume the first time... it has a lot of good poems and a few that I found particularly moving, such as Farewell to Arms and The War in Heaven. This is a good book for any Soldier to have.

War Poems

John Hollander has selected one- hundred and fifteen poems of war to include in this Anthology. As he points out in his instructive introduction these poems express varied and contradictory attitudes and moods toward War and those who fight in it. There are poems which celebrate heroism and those which are angry at the whole enterprise. There is much description of the gore and sorrow of war and there is too much lament and elegy. Many of the poems will be recognizable to most readers, poems like 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' or 'Concord Bridge' or 'Mademoiselle from Armentiers' The anthology contains poems which are among the greatest in world literature' from 'David's Lament for Jonathan' to Yeats poem on the Death of an Irish Airman'

'War' is the most horrifying frightening and intense of collective human experiences.

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Title: Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo

Subtitle: The Poems of Martin Espada

Author: Martin Espada

Narrator: Martin Espada

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-11-04

Publisher: The Leapfrog Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Known as "the most important 'minority' U.S. poet since Langston Hughes" (Booklist), Martin Espada has entranced hundres of audiences across the country, at college campuses, prisons, churches, even a tortilla factory and a boxing gym, but Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo is his first audio collection of poems. Many of these poems arise from his Puerto Rican heritage and his work experiences, ranging from bouncer to tenant lawyer. Poems heard here include "Imagine the Angels of Bread", his celebration of political imagination; "En la calle San Sebastian", a bilingual evocation of the music brought to Puerto Rico by the slaves from Africa; "Thanksgiving", a satirical non-ode to this national holiday; and "Albanza: In Praise of Local 100", his tribute to the food service workers who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center. Recorded both live and in the studio, this recording demonstates clearly why Sandra Cisneros calls Martin Espada "the Pablo Neruda of North American authors".

©2004 Martin Espada; (P)2004 Leapfrog Press AudioBooks

Members Reviews:

Important work, splendidly read

Martin Espada is one of the most important poets of his generation. His work forces, and allows, his listener to understand the life experiences of the many people who don't find their lives in our literature often enough. He achieves this with warmth, humor, rage, and a love for his subject. One listen to this wonderful collection and you will understand why Espada is among the most popular poets on the reading circuit. The only thing better than this CD is to see Espada live.

Any lover of poetry out loud needs this CD in his or her collection.

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Title: The Town Down the River

Subtitle: Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Book 3

Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson

Narrator: Robert Bethune

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-13

Publisher: Freshwater Seas

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

In 1910, when Edwin Arlington Robinson published The Town Down the River, he included what has become one of his most famous poems: "Miniver Cheevy". His portrait of this man, a "child of scorn" who "wept that he was ever born," who "sighed for what was not", who "scratched his head and kept on thinking", captures Arlington's sense of life in 32 immortal lines.

The other poems in the book, though not as famous as "Miniver Cheevy", amplify and explore Arlington's sense of the fate of humankind in ways both serious and comic. He can be mystically, really Biblically, allegorical, as in "The Wise Brothers"; he can be amused, cynical, and detached, as in "Doctor of Billiards". He can be both relieved and amazed to find a human life that has redeemed itself, as in "Shadrach O'Leary", and both frightened and bewildered by the inscrutable lives that confront him, as in "Alma Mater".

No matter what mood he takes, his instinct for human nature, his understanding of the great issues that shape life and fate, and his ability to find deep meaning in the commonplace make his work as intriguing today as it was in his own day - a day in which he won no less than three Pulitzer Prizes.

Critic Reviews:

"Mr. Robinson is quietly himself; he is neither a reactionary nor a rebel; he steers clear of the commonplace and escapes the strain of a deliberate and painful attempt to be original." (The Outlook)

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Title: Pam Ayres Poetry Collection

Author: Pam Ayres

Narrator: Pam Ayres

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-06

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Warm and witty, direct and droll, the sharply funny Pam Ayres has been amusing and entertaining her many fans for years. Her humorous observations of daily life touch a chord with anybody who's ever been bewildered by the exercise craze or has yearned after the vanished Spotted Dick. In this collection, Pam reads over 50 of her best-known and loved poems, including such favourites as "Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth", "I'm a Starling...me Darling", "Will I have to be Sexy at Sixty?", and "St. Tesco". Many of the poems include a personal introduction by Pam.

©2005 BBC Audiobooks Ltd.; (P)1997, 2005 BBC Audiobooks Ltd.

Members Reviews:

joyfullll + thoughfull

Numerous times I had to stop walking and laugh out loud or ponder a well honed, and spoken, thought from these contemporary poems.

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Title: Poems of Nature

Author: William Roetzheim - editor

Narrator: Robert Masson, Richard Baird, Olga Mieth, Marti Krane, Kris Griffen, John Aviles, Joel Castellaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-16

Publisher: Level 4 Press, Inc.

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

This audiobook includes 43 classic and contemporary poems dealing with nature, including animals; insects; earth; wind and storms; landscapes; and trees.

Critic Reviews:

"Best Books" National Book Award Poetry Anthology of the Year (winner)

Indie Excellence Awards (winner), poetry

Benjamin Franklin Audio Book of the Year (finalist)

Foreword Magazine Audio Book of the Year (finalist)

Bill Fisher Award for Best New Fiction (finalist)

Library Journal recommended.

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Title: 2016 Political Poems

Author: Doris Ervin

Narrator: Doris Ervin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-17

Publisher: Doris Ervin

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Contemporary American culture, stressed to breaking by economics, immigration, race, religion, and gender, blew up into an unknown future as Americans went to the polls on November 8, 2016. What led up to and resulted in this historic election is the subject of this new collection of poems, 2016 Political Poems.

Members Reviews:

From Pain to Resistance

Would you listen to 2016 Political Poems again? Why?

Yes, the 2016 election lives on.

What was one of the most memorable moments of 2016 Political Poems?

Hillary's meeting in the woods after the 2016 election.

Have you listened to any of Doris Ervins other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes. She has narrated two other books buy other authors. This book written and narrated in her own voice was special!

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Both

Any additional comments?

Yesterday, I was with Her. After the 2016 election, I was devastated by the result and wanted to understand WHY. I searched for answers and read an insightful book of poems by Doris Ervin, '2016 Political Poems', which gave me insight into what Americans may have been thinking and feeling. The poems that highlighted the pulse of many voters were 'Where is the Middle Class', 'Drain the Swamp', 'The Primal Scream', Blankets for Wall Street', and 'Punditry, Press, Fake News'. (See my Amazon review from January 22, 2017)

Today, I am the Resistance. After more than 100 days of a Trump presidency, I listened to the audiobook version of '2016 Political Poems' and found a voice to my resistance in the following poems: 'Just Lie', 'The Scared Trust', 'The Russians are Coming', 'A New Normal' and 'It's Up to Us'.

Tomorrow, WE all need to be the leaders who bring back our American Democracy. I found this vision in Doris's poem, 'A Meeting in the Woods', the poem that urged me to keep fighting. It describes a chance meeting that Hillary Clinton had during a walk in the woods with a mother and daughter a few days after the 2016 election. This poem felt half the country's pain but in the final stanza offered hope. Do you agree with me that the mother, in the woods, showed us we have to work for our dreams? The final stanza reads:

"My daughter is securely on my back,

for now, Perhaps, she will be the

one to lead us out of the woods and,

once again, into our dreams."

I'm a proud American and I will not sit silent. I will fight for the American Dream.

Trying to capture a moment

Two disclaimers right out the gate. 1st this book was gifted to me for my favorite price of free. Its freeness has no bearing on my review. 2nd I am not a connoisseur of poetry. I want to be, and have tried various works but haven't ever really been able to get into it.

Ervin does an amazing job capturing the feeling of American'sgoing into the 2016 election. How many were still looking for work and someone to be their voice. Ervin writes of many of the things that were discussed during the election campaign. Draining of the swamp, who's swamp, the one in your back yard or mine. What if your swamp is murky and ugly and mine looks pretty, what if they drain the swamp and put up a parking lot? She discusses Fake News and its ramifications.

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Title: Writings on the Wall

Subtitle: Inspirational Poems & Quotes

Author: Robert M. Hensel

Narrator: Caleb C. Belew

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-16

Publisher: Robert M. Hensel

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

In Writings on the Wall, contemporary poet Robert M. Hensel takes us on a journey filled with expressions of hope, peace, love, and war. Every poem and quotation throughout the book is sure to leave you inspired and wanting more. "For the most part, writing is my career. I spend a great deal of time honing my craft. As far back as I can remember, writing has always been a passion of mine. I found it to be a wonderful outlet, far as me being able to overcome the challenges of having a disability. As a poet and writer, I consider myself very blessed to be given a gift that can in many ways, transform lives, with the simple construction of words." - Robert M. Hensel Legende Magazine August 21st 2015.

Members Reviews:

Great book

Very Inspirational ,Great book and easy read.A must have

Five Stars

wonderful ,,,,just wonderful !!!!

An Excellent Read!

Writings on the Wall by Robert M. Hensel is a great educational sensual book that will let you experience the many facets of his writings through his poetic Words and Quotes! A Masterpiece of poems with Robert's "Food for Thoughts' defining his inspirational thoughts on many subjects..from World Peace, Love, War, and what Looking beyond his Disability and Limitations can truly mean for him as well as anyone who is experiencing Disability. It's a very well written Inspirational uplifting book which I would recommend ....A fabulous Contemporary Poet of our times! One not to be missed!

A well written book

A truly inspiring read! I highly recommend this book.