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Title: Lyrics in Search of Music

Subtitle: Welcome to Another Day Above the Ground, Volume 3

Author: Aaron C. Jones

Narrator: Michael C. Gwynne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-14

Publisher: Mr Aaron Jones

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Aaron Jones began writing poetry in the late 1980s. He was inspired by his brother Eddie's band, Southern Acoustic, to compose his poems in the form of songs so they could be easily adapted to music. Aaron's series of poetry collections areentitled Lyrics in Search of Music. This came about because Eddie could not write music to words already written. Aaron's poetry covers a wide range of topics, from the ups and downs of love, to taking one step at a time to getting one's life back on track. He has created his poetry collection with the hope that at least one poem may have life breathed into it through the pairing of his lyrics with the right music. Each poem a lyrical feast waiting to be launched by the perfect melody.

Members Reviews:

It's a definite FEEL GOOD book. Some poems invoke deep thought and emotion

This book has it all.It's a definite FEEL GOOD book. Some poems invoke deep thought and emotion, while others are delightfully silly, and just put a great big grin, from ear to ear, on your face. Looking forward to the audio book to listen to in my car, home, etc. Keep up the good work Aaron Jones. I can see why this would be flying off the shelves. Congratulations, Mr. Jones. Looking forward to the next one.

he's done it again

Just when you thought he had done it all Michael Gwynne amazes once again by immersing himself into the material, actually becoming part of it and then taking it to a higher level. Theatre of the mind springs to vibrant levels thanks Michael.

Five Stars

Lyrics of whimsy and passion. Another worthy sequel to previous Lyrics in Seach of Music. Poetry for the senses.

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Title: Chimeric Machines

Author: Lucy A. Snyder

Narrator: Julie Sears

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-14

Publisher: Lucy A. Snyder

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

This collection from rising author Lucy A. Snyder offers three dozen poems to delight listeners who enjoy sly wordplay and subtle allusion, high intelligence and fierce heart.

Critic Reviews:

"She's been through the trenches; she knows the way the world comes down. You can feel it in the work. You're not just looking at words in a book, you're regarding a life that's been opened up and splashed down on the page. This lady is not only courageous, she's fearless. We need more like her to give us that grand plucking of the guts." (Tom Piccirilli, author of The Midnight Road and Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife, from his introduction)

"There is nothing illusory or mechanical about these poems. They take us on a marvelously eclectic journey, with a cast that includes a black hole voicing its thoughts and a dead man coming 'Home For the Holidays.' Read and be dazzled." (Christopher Conlon, author of Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt and Midnight on Mourn Street)

Members Reviews:

Simply A Delight

Chimeric Machines is, simply, a delight. Fifteen of the thirty-eight included poems had been previously published, over nine years, in various pro and semi-pro markets, including Strange Horizons, Chiaroscuro, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine. I should say up front that Lucy is one of a handful of my favorite poets--her creations tend to tweak me just so: elegant, grounded, visceral, playful, knowledgeable, erudite, educated...she knows a lot about a lot, including the feel of language, and puts it all to good use.

Tom Piccirilli's introduction is short, quirky, and a great way to set the mood before you dive in. Consider it a palate cleanser for the ever-fresh sashimi Lucy slices the world into. The book is broken into seven courses: Technica, Quiet Places, Dark Dreams, Crete Kentucky, Daughters of Typhon, Strange Corners, and Unshelled Evolution. Some sections are more coherent than others, but, for me, the first was the strongest punch. I made notes on each poem as I went, and so many of them, first time through, were just, "Yes. Oh Yes.", or "Delightful", or "*hee*". That's where she hits me.

The leading piece, "Modernism", is simple, but oh-so-elegant, beautifully wry, and hits on several levels. It's two brief stanzas, both relating the same scene, speaking on classical art and modern art, life, perspective, and it is...delightfully wrong, which is a mode I think Lucy aims for frequently.

"And There in the Machine, Virginia Finally Stood Up" is a prose poem, and not what you might expect from the collection's title, but perhaps all the more powerful for that. Three pages long, a lifetime, but I wouldn't do the themes justice by explaining them. The poem does them justice, in spades. My only qualm is that the end is perhaps a bit simple, and glib, in comparison. But there is a lot of glib, throughout, and it's something she does very well.

"Subtlety", which GUD originally published in Issue 2, gets a special call-out in the introduction, and it's well-deserved. From my slush notes, "I was hooked from the first stanza.

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Title: The Skeleton in Armor

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Narrator: Glenn Hascall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-24-14

Publisher: Spoken Realms

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The life of a Viking is prominent in this story poem. The listener is invited to the heights and depths of a Norseman's life. This is the stuff of ancient bards rekindled for a new generation. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

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Title: Selected Poetry (Iqbal Azeem)

Author: Iqbal Azeem

Narrator: Iqbal Azeem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-04-14

Publisher: Urdu Studio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Iqbal Azeem was born in Meerah (India) in 1913. He was one of the greatest poets of Urdu Literature. He acquired his basic educaton from Agra. After partition he settled in East Pakistan. "Mizrab" and "Lab Kusha" are two ghazal collections of Iqbal Azeem whereas "Kab-e-Qosain" is the book of naats. He also wrote "Mashreqi Bengal Mein Urdu" - a critic of Urdu language evolution in Bengal. He was very popular for his tarannum and the fact that he had lost most of his eyesight that ended, later, into him becoming totally blind.

Please note: This audiobook is in Urdu.

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Title: Deep Breaths & Chocolate

Subtitle: The Poetry of Divorce, Moving Forward, and Discovering Love

Author: Sue Baiman

Narrator: Sue Baiman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-14

Publisher: BrightEyed Publications

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

An uplifting collection of poems about the author's struggles through her divorce. These poems are for anyone who has ever loved and lost and found love again. Through her divorce, she finds herself, grows stronger, and as she comes out the other side discovers that she has more love in her life afterwards (now that she's learned how to love herself) then she ever had in her marriage.

Members Reviews:

A personal discovery

Deep Breaths and Chocolate is filled with emotion. It is a personal trip down the road of a rocky marriage, and through the process of rediscovery of one's self after divorce, through poetry. Love and loneliness came through in Sue Baiman's verse. It is a description of her trip, but if you are or have gone through a divorce you may see yourself in her words.

Sue captures the complex nature of love, family

Sue captures the complex nature of love, family, relationships, and sexuality in this hard-hitting poetic sequel to her breakout collection, Deep Breaths & Chocolate: The Poetry of Divorce, Moving Forward, and Discovering Love.

A great collection of poems about recovering from the breakdown of ...

A great collection of poems about recovering from the breakdown of a marriage, the process of divorce, and the recovery from both.

Beauty in the end.

Beautiful, moving journey through separation and divorce into the freedom of a whole new life.

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Title: Selected Poetry (Naseer Turabi)

Author: Naseer Turabi

Narrator: Naseer Turabi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-14

Publisher: Urdu Studio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Naseer Turabi is a prominent Urdu poet and the son of Allama Rasheed Turabi, an Islamic scholar, public speaker and poet. Naseer Turabi, who has many works to his credit, most recently shot into prominence after his famous piece "Woh Hamsafar Tha" written in 1971 at the fall of Dhaka, was used as the title song of the hit television drama, Hamsafar.

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Title: The Light Changes

Author: Amy Billone

Narrator: Amy Billone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-13

Publisher: Amy Billone

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A stunning audiobook of free verse/memoir that invokes the biographical and creative worlds of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf as it opens up pathways toward light even in the most unimaginable darkness of our personal experiences and the times we inhabit today.

Members Reviews:

A deeper work with each reading

In Amy Billoneâs âThe Light Changes: Poems,â the poet throws herself in front of a trainâand lives to tell the story. Not exactly what you expect from poets and poems.

Grace

I was raped by a speeding train. I asked it to.

I threw myself before it. I extended my legs, arms.

It came when I called it. Oh what enormous

metal thighs. Oh what fast thudding hips. Again

again against my blackening eyes, skull, chest, waistâ

I loved its greasy sighs. I loved its wild blows.

My mind flew away. Who pulled me from below?

Who fed me with a tube? Who brought me

sunflowers? Who hummed me lullabies? Who

pardoned me? Who ripped my shame in two?

The reasons for throwing herself in front of a train are unspoken, although the act had been preceded by various accidents over the years. What is spoken is the aftermathâthe six-and-a-half-day coma, the doctors saying she would never speak again, her father by her side like heâs been by her side so many times before, and, defying the doctors, what she says when she awakes: âHi Dad.â

What the would-be suicide, if we can call her that, lacks is a sense of guilt or remorse. Itâs her father who must question police and himself: The body of the girl belonged to my daughter. / The mind of the girl was a distorted version of / the mind of my daughter. But the heart and soul / of the girl did not belong to my daughter.

The poems about the train incident form only the first of the four parts of Billoneâs collection. But it is attention- and interest-grabbing, and youâre pulled in to find what happened and why. You may or may not be disappointed in the answer.

The poems in the collection are diverse and variedâlonger and shorter, prose poems and âstructureâ poems, but all engaging, all wrapping around you with a sense of quiet, and quiet reflection. It is not only Amy Billone who writes and walks these pages; Virginia Woolf is here, both in the introduction and explicitly in a poem (about a conversation on an airline flight).

So, too, is the late poet Jack Gilbert, who died in 2012 from complications from Alzheimerâs.

Billone includes a particularly wonderful elegy for Gilbert, about the poet meeting him while he was still working but already experiencing the onset of the disease. The elegy for him becomes an almost haunting plea for the poet talking with him, a plea that he might know her name. We donât know if that happens or not, but those few lines at the end express an almost exquisite sorrow, the diminishing of a great poet who nevertheless will leave a legacy in his poems.

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Title: Breaking Dawn

Author: Regina Puckett

Narrator: George Taylor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-13

Publisher: Regina Dee Puckett

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Some days Im hard pressed to see hope or joy.I run tirelessly toward a goal only to discover its a decoy

Trusted signposts and markers have only led to the edge of a cliff

The things I once thought were solid are filled with cracks and a rift

Can anything be trusted or is it all just a ruthless, cruel sham

Where the lambs are led to the slaughter and no one really gives a damn

Members Reviews:

Review: Breaking Dawn, by Regina Puckett

I listened to this collection via the audiobook format. I feel that the audio helped bring out the rhythm and rhyme of each poem, and with that, the words had even more power than they would simply on the page. Since poetry is as much about the audible experience as it is the visual/textual experience, this added to my enjoyment.

Ive read another collection of Pucketts not too long ago, and enjoyed that one as well, but Breaking Dawn has a little extra something in the subject matter of the poems, allowing me to sit back and enjoy each one that much more.

Only reason for the half-star drop was a line here or there that was just too wordy and/or long. In these instances the meter and flow was disrupted, taking me out of the poem momentarily. But its only a minor issue for me as a reader, easily going unnoticed at times.

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Title: White Trash & Southern: Collected Poems, Volume 1

Author: C. S. Fuqua

Narrator: C.S. Fuqua

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-13

Publisher: Cooperative Ink

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Two hundred thirty-two poems, 232 stories of life, from birth to death, domestic bliss to domestic violence, political stupidity to flatulent bus travelers, celebration, mourning, joy, sadness

Poetry in this data-saturated age is not, for most, a viable way to make a living. So why expend the time and energy to create something that few people will listen to and even fewer will purchase? To which I must ask, why do people sing in the rain, paint pictures, dance? Because it provides pleasure and reward and perhaps even keeps them sane. As a writer of fiction and nonfiction, I am most concerned with story. When I write poetry, I view it not as some lofty literary tool to fool or condescend, but as an exercise in crafting story within the strictest confines. White Trash & Southern is a collection of such exercises, spanning nearly three decades. To create a complex story within a limited number of words - to communicate far more than appears - is a challenge that can provide enormous reward and satisfaction. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I don't. But at least I remain sane. Sort of, C.S. Fuqua.

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Title: Interview: Missouri USA Poet Scott Cairns Tells About His Work

Author: Peter Menkin

Narrator: Scott E. Bishop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-30-13

Publisher: Peter Menkin

Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

From one of the poems appearing in the interview-article with Scott Cairns, Missouri USA Poet: Advent Scott Cairns.

We talked by phone between my home in Mill Valley, California and his home in Missouri; the interview follows. Though Scott Cairns wrote his answers after a background conversation, there was one follow-up to his answers to the questions. That was asked in writing by email and answered in writing by email.