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Title: Animals In My Life

Author: Pamela Douglas

Narrator: Pamela Douglas

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 43 minutes

Release date: June 11, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Having once rashly boasted that she could remember every animal she had ever known, the author thought she must put pen to paper and see what memories came flooding back. The delightful poems in this collection are moving, funny, sad, loving, and will strike a chord with many a pet owner and entertain all who enjoy the ways of our animal friends. - -

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Title: [Spanish] - El rey de Harlem

Author: Federico García Lorca

Narrator: Joan Mora

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 16 minutes

Release date: June 5, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Con una cucharale arrancaba los ojos a los cocodrilosy golpeaba el trasero de los monos.Con una cuchara.Fuego de siempre dormía en los pedernalesy los escarabajos borrachos de anísolvidaban el musgo de las aldeas. Aquel viejo cubierto de setasiba al sitio donde lloraban los negrosmientras crujía la cuchara del reyy llegaban los tanques de agua podrida. - Federico García Lorca fue un poeta y dramaturgo español nacido en 1868 en Fuente Vaqueros, Granada. Perteneciente a la Generación del 27, se relacionó con muchos de los escritores e intelectuales más importantes de España, como Luis Buñuel, Rafael Alberti o Salvador Dalí.

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Title: Flowers of Evil

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Narrator: Douglas Harvey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Release date: June 2, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire influential on several levels. Fellow artists were impressed and unsettled when it was published in 1857; one described the effect as “immense, prodigious, unexpected, mingled with admiration and some indefinable anxious fear”. Admirers included Victor Hugo and Gustave Flaubert, who wrote “you are as unyielding as marble and as penetrating as English mist”. The general public, however, was scandalized by the themes of sex and death and frank treatment of subjects such as lesbianism, which led to a prosecution of Baudelaire, his publisher and printer for offenses against publish morals. The conviction resulted in a fine and the removal of six poems. A second edition was released in 1861 that deleted the offending poems and added 35 poems, including a new section, Parisian Scenes, which described the effects of modernization symbolized by the identical streets and buildings taking shape during the renovation of Paris and a resulting alienation and estrangement as well as a sense of loss. On a stylistic level, the collection introduced a kind of highly ordered prose poetry and the use of a cynical and ironic voice that broke with Romantic traditions by acknowledging moral complexity, urban corruption, loss of innocence, and indulging in sensual and aesthetic pleasures. The work captures the fleeting sense of life and beauty in the emerging urban industrial world for which Baudelaire coined the term modernity and has had a lasting influence that continues to be an inspiration to this day.

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Title: Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition

Author: Walt Whitman

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Release date: June 2, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

In 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free-verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, this monumental work, now a classic of American poetry, was condemned as immoral upon publication. Included in this edition are some of the greatest poems of modern times, works that continue to upset conventional notions of beauty and originality even today.

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Title: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Penguin Classics

Author: Bernard O'donoghue

Narrator: Frank Turner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Release date: May 28, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is narrated by Singer/Songwriter and folk-punk icon Frank Turner. Frank Turner has released eight solo studio albums, the most recent of which was No Man's Land, which contained songs celebrating some of the most important women throughout history. This definitive edition is translated by Bernard O'Donoghue. Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the following New Year's Eve. Sir Gawain takes up the challenge, decapitating the stranger - only to see the Green Knight seize up his own severed head and ride away, leaving Gawain to seek him out and honour their pact. Blending Celtic myth and Christian faith, Gawain is among the greatest Middle English poems: a tale of magic, chivalry and seduction. © Bernard O'Donoghue 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: 200 Haiku Love Poems

Author: Adrian Tanase

Narrator: Adrian Tanase

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Release date: May 21, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

In this haiku love poems audiobook, I am delivering an underlying message that is not only about romance and romantic love, but even more, about the sacred feelings, perceptions and sophisticated moods that deeper love creates, when the partners are very much in love with each other. The audiobook itself is created in such a way, that it sets an almost meditative mood, where you can dwell in its simple message and its wonderful verses. Written in the spiritually-inspired Rumi style, you can easily contemplate this out-of-this-world atmosphere, with the help of the smooth and airy musical chords which are present in the background, all-throughout the audiobook. The poems are inspiring and they can be a great moodsetter and always being able to rekindle the flame of love while clearly describing the joy of the heart, while being in love. I invite you to sit back, relax and immerse in an hour and a half of beautiful haiku love poems. Namaste

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Title: Be Straight with Me

Author: Emily Dalton

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Release date: May 19, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Be Straight with Me is an unforgettable memoir-in-verse about a love that blurs the boundaries of gender and sexuality—told from the perspective of a young, straight woman who finds herself in a serious relationship with her gay male best friend. With unabashed honesty and piercing emotional clarity, Emily Dalton brings to life this timely, true story about a nonconforming romance and its consequences. During her sophomore year at Middlebury College, Emily meets Max—“you” as she intimately refers to him in the book. Not exactly a tomboy, but not quite a girly girl either, Emily is intent on finding a masculine boyfriend to assuage a deeply rooted fear that she may not be quite feminine enough. Max—a boisterous class clown beloved by his many straight guy friends—has recently come out as gay and is embracing his newly claimed identity. Initially, Max and Emily dislike each other, but end up growing close after a make-out dare on Halloween. Then one night, Max reveals an unexpected physical attraction that catches them both by surprise. The relationship begins, playfully and in secret, and then spirals into something more. Max and Emily’s journey takes many forms—they experiment with drugs; they travel abroad; they try sleeping with other people (together), and everything in between—all in the name of “this bizarre, beautiful thing” they call love.

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Title: American Bestiary

Author: Diego Maenza

Narrator: Ian A Miller

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 55 minutes

Release date: May 15, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Urban myths and legends from all over America are condensed in this collection. Through its pages various spectra pass, as the Chupacabra invokes and enumerates in one of the poems: "Creatures of the night and the sun. Covered Lady, Muqui, Yasy Yeteré, Alligator Man, Kharisiri, Whistler, Widow, Telesita, Curupira, Tata Elf, Cadejo, Just Judge of the Night, Witch Monkey, Holy Death, Demon of Dover, Wendigo, Girl with a scarf, The Crying Girl. Creatures of the underworld, let us unite in this new era in which humanity has degenerated and is the scum of the universe".Urban myths and legends from all over America are condensed in this collection. Through its pages various spectra pass, as the Chupacabra invokes and enumerates in one of the poems: "Creatures of the night and the sun. Covered Lady, Muqui, Yasy Yeteré, Alligator Man, Kharisiri, Whistler, Widow, Telesita, Curupira, Tata Elf, Cadejo, Just Judge of the Night, Witch Monkey, Holy Death, Demon of Dover, Wendigo, Girl with a scarf, The Crying Girl. Creatures of the underworld, let us unite in this new era in which humanity has degenerated and is the scum of the universe". PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: Riven: Poems

Author: Catherine Owen

Narrator: Catherine Owen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Release date: May 15, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry In 2010, Catherine Owen's 29-year-old spouse died of a drug addiction. A year later, she relocated to an apartment by the Fraser River in Vancouver, B.C. As she moved beyond the initial shock, the river became her focus: a natural, damaged space that both intensifies emotion and symbolizes healing. In a sequence of aubades, or dawn poems, Owen records the practice of walking by or watching the river every morning, a routine that helps her engage in the tough work of mourning. Riven (a word that echoes river and means rift) is an homage to both a man and an ecosystem threatened by the presence of toxins and neglect. Yet, it is also a song to the beauty of nature and memory, concluding in a tribute to Louise Cotnoir's long poem The Islands with a piece on imagined rivers. While Designated Mourner honors grief, Riven focuses on modes of survival and transformation through looking outward, and beyond.

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Title: Piers Plowman

Author: William Langland

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Piers Plowman, William Langland's visionary medieval work about one man's quest for the true Christian life, is an allegorical journey through dream visions and visions within dreams. During the course of his journey, the narrator (William Langland) meets Piers Plowman, who gradually reveals himself to be the son of God. Through Piers, William learns of the virtues in poverty, the temptations of wealth, and of the perfect society that is to come under the rule of Piers Plowman. Each vision and conversation is presented in buoyant, lyrical, alliterative verse that conveys the thoughts and rejoicings of 14th-century England, and comes alive in A.V.C. Schmidt's contemporary translation of the 'B' text.