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Title: The Iliad: Penguin Classics

Author: Homer

Narrator: Steve John Shepherd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 49 minutes

Release date: April 23, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, Bomber's Moon and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an introduction by E V Rieu. One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death. Interwoven with this tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, of the domestic world inside Troy's besieged city of Ilium, and of the conflicts between the Gods on Olympus as they argue over the fate of mortals.

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Title: Metamorphoses: Penguin Classics

Author: Ovid

Narrator: David Raeburn, Maya Saroya, John Sackville, Martin Jarvis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

Release date: April 23, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Denis Feeney. Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes. (c) 2004, David Raeburn (P) 2019 Penguin Audio

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Title: Love Poems for Anxious People

Author: John Kenney

Narrator: John Kenney

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 53 minutes

Release date: April 21, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people. With the same brilliant wit and hilarious realism that made Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children such hits, John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on one of the most common feelings in our day-and-age: anxiety. Kenney covers it all, from awkward social interactions and insomnia to nervous ticks and writing and rewriting that email.

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Title: Lean Against This Late Hour

Author: Garous Abdolmalekian

Narrator: Sean Rohani

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 45 minutes

Release date: April 14, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation  A vivid, 'mesmerizing' (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal, cinematic images that pan wide as deftly as they narrow into intimate focus. Time is a thread come unspooled: pain arrives before the wound, and the dead wait for sunrise. Abdolmalekian resists definitive separations between cause and effect, life and death, or heaven and hell, and challenges our sense of what is fixed and what is unsettled and permeable. Though the speakers in these poems are witnesses to the deforming effects of grief and memory, they remain alive to curiosity, to the pleasure of companionship, and to other ways of being and seeing. Lean Against This Late Hour illuminates the images we conjure in the face of abandonment and ruin, and finds them by turns frightening, bewildering, ethereal, and defiant. 'This time,' a disembodied voice commands, 'send us a prophet who only listens.'

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Title: dayliGht: Poems

Author: Roya Marsh

Narrator: Roya Marsh

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

This program is read by the author dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race. Growing up, Roya Marsh was considered “tomboy passing.' With an affinity for baggy clothes, cornrows, and bandanas, she came of age in an era when the wide spectrum of gender and sexuality was rarely acknowledged or discussed. She knew she was “different,” her family knew she was “different,” but anything outside of the heteronorm was either disregarded or disparaged. In her stunning debut, written in protest to an absence of representation, Marsh recalls her early life and the attendant torments of a butch Black woman coming of age in America. In lush, powerful, and vulnerable verses, dayliGht unpacks traumas to unearth truths, revealing a deep well of resilience, a cutting sense of irony, and an astonishing fresh talent. A Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals

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Title: We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems

Author: Jessica Care Moore

Narrator: Jessica Care Moore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Release date: March 31, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

A dazzling full-length collection of verse from one of the leading poets of our time. Over the past two decades, jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race. Fierce and passionate, Jessica Care moore argues that Black women spend their lives building a physical and emotional shelter to protect themselves from misogyny, criminalization, hatred, stereotypes, sexual assault, objectification, patriarchy, and death threats. We Want Our Bodies Back is an exploration—and defiant stance against—these many attacks.

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Title: We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems

Author: William Evans

Narrator: William Evans

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Release date: March 24, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs today. In We Inherit What the Fires Left, award-winning poet William Evans embarks on a powerful new collection that explores the lived experience of race in the American suburbs and what dreams and injuries are passed from generation to generation. Fall under the spell of Evans’s boldly intimate, wise, and emotionally candid voice in these urgent, electrifying poems. This eloquent collection explores not only what these inheritances are composed of, but what price the bearer must pay for such legacies, and the costly tolls exacted on both body and spirit. Evans writes searingly from the perspective of the marginalized, delivering an unflinching examination of what it is like to be a black man raising a daughter in predominantly white spaces, and the struggle to build a home and a future while carrying the weight of the past. However, in beautiful and quiet scenes of domesticity with his daughter or in thoughtful reflection within himself, Evans offers words of hope to readers, proving that resilience can ultimately bloom even in the face of prejudice. Readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hanif Abdurraqib will find a brilliant, fresh new talent to add to their lists in William Evans.

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Title: [Spanish] - La aurora

Author: Federico García Lorca

Narrator: Joan Mora

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 13 minutes

Release date: March 23, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. La aurora. El poeta nos habla de nuevo de la ciudad como símbolo de soledad. Describe el amanecer no como una señal de renacimiento y alegría, sino como la imposibilidad de realización de sus esperanzas y anhelos, porque se encuentra al final de la noche en la más amarga desesperación Panorama ciego de Nueva York. Lo estéril de la faceta amorosa del poeta se revela como su forma más íntima de dolor que hace extensivo a todo lo que lo rodea, convirtiéndose no sólo en lo espiritual si no ya también en lo físico que golpea sin piedad. Nacimiento de Cristo. Este poema cuyo título preludia a en nacimiento de Jesús como algo alegre y jubiloso y signo de esperanza sin embargo con Lorca lo que hace es transmitir la idea del nacimiento como el inicio del camino hacia la muerte, hacia el sufrimiento que sufrió el redentor.  - 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: [Spanish] - Paisaje de la multitud

Author: Federico García Lorca

Narrator: Joan Mora

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 15 minutes

Release date: March 23, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Antes de empezar escuchar los surrealistas versos de 'Paisajes de la multitud', tendríamos que plantearnos un hecho fundamental en la vida del poeta: cuando Federico Lorca llega a Nueva York el caos constante de tráfico, gigantescos edificios, miles de personas siempre corriendo, producen en él un efecto que lo deslumbra completamente al compararlo con su idílica vida en Fuente Vaqueros y Granada tan pequeñas y provincianas, pero a la vez tan llenas de luz y de arte. Ese contraste producirá en el poeta una profunda melancolía. - 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: [Spanish] - Ciudad sin sueño - dramatizado

Author: Federico García Lorca

Narrator: Joan Mora

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 18 minutes

Release date: March 23, 2020

Genres: Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Asesinato. En este corto poema el autor relata en forma de diálogo un crimen que realmente ocurrió en la calle 42 de Nueva York. El relato de la violencia que este acto físico supuso le sirve al poeta para plasmar el dolor de su ánimo. Ciudad sin sueño. Intenta transmitir el poeta su propia insatisfacción por analogía con la noche, la vigilia, que no le permite dormir ni soñar ni encontrar alivio o esperanza. Navidad en el Hudson. En este poema identifica el protagonista su sensación de soledad con respecto al resto del mundo en el río Hudson. - 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.