Human Voices Wake Us

A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Joy,” from his collection “Roan Stallion.”

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The entirety of “Roan Stallion” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Boats in a Fog,” from his collection “Roan Stallion.”

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The entirety of “Roan Stallion” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

A reading of Robinson Jeffers’s poem “Birds,” from his collection “Roan Stallion.”

Buy The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

The entirety of “Roan Stallion” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

A brief introduction to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, with a reading of the longest chapter in the book, Chapter 125. 

Both the introduction to the Book of the Dead and the text of Chapter 125 comes from Miriam Lichtheim: Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 2: The New Kingdom 

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later  episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. 

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email meeat [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

A reading of Walt Whitman's poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."

The full text of the poem is here.

The best place to find Whitman's poetry online (or anything about him at all) remains the Whitman Archive, and you can find every edition of Leaves of Grass here (as plain text downloads) and here (facsimiles of the original editions). 

While there are hundreds of editions of Whitman's poetry in print, I prefer the two editions published by the Library of America: the first includes the 1855 and 1892 versions of Leaves of Grass, and the second (and the book I'm reading from here) includes the same, along with a huge selection of Whitman's prose.

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later  episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. 

I assume that  the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use.  Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not  have their work presented here can also email me at  [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

A reading of four poems from Robinson Jeffers’s 1924 book, “Tamar & Other Poems.” The poems are: 

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The entirety of “Tamar & Other Poems” can be found in volume one of The Collected Poems of Robinson Jeffers

Any comments, or suggestions for readings  I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to  [email protected].