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The Iliad
By: Homer & Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Dominic Keating
Length: 19 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homerâs timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homerâs Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion.... Read more
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Do You Believe in Fairies?
By: Ashley Anne Strobridge
Narrated by: Ashley Anne Strobridge
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an audio journey through a collection of original Nature photography paired with original poetry & prose. Within you'll find lyrical audio descriptions of photos spanning the landscapes of my home state of Vermont, as well as a curated selection of photos from Virginia. This art is paired with whimsical & impactful poetry in... Read more
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At Blackwater Pond
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems,... Read more
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How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous. In her second poetry collection,... Read more
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Autobiography of Red
By: Anne Carson
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 3 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile,... Read more
An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
Narrated by: Joy Harjo
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo... Read more
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Gilgamesh
By: Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by: George Guidall & John McDonough
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This brilliant new treatment of the oldest epic in the world is a literary event. Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell breathes life into a 3,700-year-old classic, delivering a lithe and muscular rendering that shows how startlingly alive Gilgamesh is, how filled with intelligence and beauty. It is the story of... Read more
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The Popol Vuh
By: Michael Bazzett
Narrated by: Michael Bazzett
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
AÂ NEW YORK TIMESÂ BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018
A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATIONIn the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: âEarth.â There are no inhabitants, and no sunâonly the broad sky, silent sea, and sovereign Framer and Shaper. Then come the twin heroes Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Wielding blowguns, they begin a... Read more
Paradise Lost
By: John Milton
Narrated by: Thomas A. Copeland
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Paradise Lost is an epic poem written by the Puritan English poet John Milton between 1658 and 1663, and published in 1667. This is a period of English history which encompasses the end of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Perhaps reflecting some of his country's turmoil during Milton's life, Paradise... Read more
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A Poetry Handbook
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
âMary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (thatâs what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.ââLos Angeles TimesFrom the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.With... Read more
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Don't Let Me Be Lonely
By: Claudia Rankine
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter.
The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric and the essay in this politically and... Read more
Rilke
By: Rainer Rilke
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
Length: 1 hour 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer... Read more
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Root Fractures
By: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Narrated by: Diana Khoi Nguyen
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Abridged: No
*One of LitHubâs Poetry Books to Read in 2024*
*One of The Millionsâs Must Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024*
National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyenâs second poetry collection, a haunting of a familyâs past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations.
In Root... Read more
Dorothy Parker's Men I'm Not Married To - Unabridged
By: Dorothy Parker
Narrated by: Sara Nichols
Length: 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of observations about the male of the species from one of the 20th century's most celebrated and renowned humorists, "Men I'm Not Married To" is a series of descriptions of nine men, all of whom Parker managed to avoid accompanying down the aisle.
Some longer, some very short, each of these descriptions shows Parker's full range of... Read more
Balladz
By: Sharon Olds
Narrated by: Sharon Olds
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ⢠Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoningâby the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who wonât back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).
"At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring,... Read more
Beowulf: A New Translation
By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A new,... Read more
How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems
By: Mikeas SĂĄnchez
Narrated by: Mikeas SĂĄnchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas SĂĄnchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism... Read more
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The Hill We Climb
By: Amanda Gorman
Narrated by: Amanda Gorman & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Amanda Gormanâs powerful and historic poem âThe Hill We Climb,â read at President Joe Bidenâs inauguration
âStunning.â âCNNÂ
âDynamic.â âNPR
âDeeply rousing and uplifting.â âVogue
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th... Read more
The Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... Read more
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Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
Narrated by: Maggie Millner
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A dazzling love story in poems about one womanâs coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone.A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are... Read more
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I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
By: Taylor Byas
Narrated by: Taylor Byas
Length: 1 hour 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discoveryâone that pulls her away from the safety of home and into her power
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film The Wiz to explore a Black woman's journey... Read more
Nikki Giovanni: Love Poems & A Good Cry
By: Nikki Giovanni
Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Hear Nikki Giovanni read two extraordinary collections of her own work! A singular listening experience! The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Sheâs been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has touched our national consciousness.Love Poems:... Read more
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Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more
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Zilot & Other Important Rhymes
By: Bob Odenkirk
Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, Emo Philips, Ron Funches, Samuel ...
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Emmy Award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer, comedian, and actor Bob Odenkirk and his daughter, illustrator Erin Odenkirk, present poetic nonsense for all ages perfect for fans of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky!
Bob Odenkirk began writing these poems with his children when they were little, compiling the poetry into a homemade... Read more