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God's Trombones
Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
Author: James Weldon Johnson, Readers: Joe Morton, Robert Earl Jones, Rev. Calvin O. Butts, and more

A landmark performance of a now-classic work of poetry, power, rhythm, and faith. Celebrate this great literary accomplishment of the Harlem Renaissance. Influenced by the sermons of great black preachers of the day, Johnson transformed his memories into poetry about creation, judgment day, and other Bible stories. The poetry was given voice for a 1990s PBS broadcast by prominent African-American ministers and others.

Unabridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1Z868, 9781598878684, $13.95
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Good Poems
Editor: Garrison Keillor, Readers: Garrison Keillor and various poets

Audie Award winner. The poetry-loving host of PBS's The Writer's Almanac presents this anthology of poems chosen for their wit, frankness, and passion. It includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. Poets include Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. "These are poems to live in comfort with all one's life."—Booklist

Abridged, 4 CDs, Poetry, D4Z694, 9781565116948, $26.95
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Great Poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Reader: Michael Pennington

Only Shakespeare is quoted more than Tennyson (1809-1892). The poet's works encompass a great range of styles, settings, and personae, and are known for their emotional resonance and powerful imagery. This audiobook brings together all thekey works, including The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crossing the Bar, and Tears, Idle Tears.

Audio Orig, 1 CD, Poetry, D1E981, 9789626349816, $14.98
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The Great Poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Christina Rossetti
Authors: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, Readers: Rachel Bavidge and Georgina Sutton

Between them, the writings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti spanned almost the entire Victorian age, from the end of Romanticism to the beginnings of Modernism. This selection of their shorter works contains all the major themes that animated them – social justice, faith, love and mortality – and some of the best-loved poetry in English, including In the Deep Midwinter and How Do I Love Thee?

Audio Orig, 1 CD, Poetry, D1E920, 9789626349205, $14.98
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The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson, Reader: Teresa Gallagher

From love and death to amusements and nature, Dickinson wrote poems full of acute observations, using language elegantly and nimbly. This careful but imaginative selection of some of her finest poems shows the remarkable variety she produced. "Gallagher has an agile voice and the delicate articulation necessary for interpreting the finely crafted poems... [She] performs the poems with a simplicity and clarity that allow their beauty to flourish."—AudioFile

Audio Orig, 1 CD, Poetry, D1E856, 9789626348567, $14.98
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The Great Poets: William McGonagall
Author: William McGonagall, Reader: Gregor Fisher

The idiosyncratic Scot, William Topaz McGonagall, has the unusual reputation as one of the worst poets in the English language. His rhymes produce mirth rather than wonder, just as they did over a century ago. His masterpiece is The Tay Bridge Disaster. Fisher, who starred in Love Actually, reads key poems and passages from the biography – and gets deep into character!

Audio Orig, 1 CD, Poetry, D1E893, 9789626348932, $14.98
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