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Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece
Author: William Shakespeare, Readers: David Burke, Clare Colbert, Benjamin Soames, Eve Best, and Oliver Le Sueur

Two great poems date from the bard's early years and are full of passion and invention. In Venus and Adonis, the goddess of love falls in love herself – but he only has eyes for his hunting prey. In The Rape of Lucrece, Shakespeare draws on the Roman take of the Emperor Tarquin's desire for Lucrece and its tragic consequences.

Unabridged, 3 CDs, Poetry, D3E429, 9789626344293, $22.98
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The Voice of the Poet: Adrienne Rich
Author/Reader: Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich

This poet of rare power and commitment focuses on women, love, and honesty. She sees in her poems both the means of change and the "dream of the common language." Her poetry is driven by a belief in art as a precious resource to be made available to all. Winner of a Medal for Distinguished Contribuion from the National Book Foundation. "Her dialectical fire produces poems of transcendent beauty."—The New York Times Book Review

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Abridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1R489, 9780553714890, $19.95
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The Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes
Author/Reader: Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes

A star of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Hughes was the first poet to include the pulsing beat of jazz in his poetry. He wrote essays, two novels, three collections of short stories, as well as libretti for Broadway musicals, but we remember most clearly his soaring poetry. He spoke of the drama of his time with a truth that continues to startle and move. "To hear [him] read his own poetry is to experience an epiphany... soulful... [a] gem of a collection."—Publishers Weekly

Abridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1R491, 9780553714913, $19.95
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The Voice of the Poet: Robert Frost
Author/Reader: Robert Frost, Robert Frost

"I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence..." The poems of this four-time Pulitzer Prize winner have become part of the American imagination. Few have written as engagingly about the rural life and landscape, or explored our spiritual condition with more wisdom. Includes Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, Birches, The Gift Outright, and many more. "[He] reads his own work well... Frost's voice is deep and resonant, reflecting age, but also the purposeful choice of words."—AudioFile

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Abridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1R661, 9780553756616, $19.95
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The Voice of the Poet: W.H. Auden
Author/Reader: W.H. Auden, W.H. Auden

"The mass and majesty of this world, all that carries weight and always weighs the same..." Auden is one of the wittiest and most worldly of poetry's great 20th century masters. His Pulitzer Prize-winning work ranges from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the romantic. Rejoice in the work of an exemplary champion of human wisdom in its encounter with the mysteries of experience. Includes 64-page booklet.

Abridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1R806, 9780739308066, $19.95
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The Voice of the Poet: e.e. cummings
Author/Reader: e.e. cummings, e.e. cummings

Revolutionary and exciting, delightful and unusual, cummings' poetry enchants with his wit, originality, and technical virtuosity. His gifts were always in service to his desire to portray the tumultuous upheavals of ordinary life, the sensuous appeals of love, and the limits of rational thought. His poems are as fresh and ebullient as the day they were written.`

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Abridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1R537, 9780739315378, ~~$19.95~~ Now $12.97
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The Voice of the Poet: T.S. Eliot
Author/Reader: T.S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot

"I should have been a pair of ragged claws..." "This is the way the world ends..." He was the most influential poet of the 20th century, writing poems that struck readers like lightning. Here is the voice that changed and shaped modern poetry in ways that still resonate profoundly. Includes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets.

Abridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1R535, 9780739315354, $19.95
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Voices and Poetry of Ireland
Hear the Best-Loved Irish Poems
Authors: Oscar Wilde, Patrick Cavanagh, W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Reader: Bono, Maeve Binchy, Pierce Brosnan, Bob Geldof, and more

Hear some of the best-loved poems of Ireland, read by some of the most moving, resonant, and memorable voices to have ever come out of the country. Over the centuries, Ireland has produced an astonishing wealth of writers, from Oscar Wildeand Patrick Kavanagh to W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. Its rich and colorful heritage is celebrated in this unique compilation.

Unabridged, 1 CD, Poetry, D1X404, 9781402204043, $18.95
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Voices of Love / Voices of Marriage
Author: J.D. McClatchy, Reader: Ensemble Cast

Soaring or searing, passionate or perplexed – love speaks in many voices. It speaks of anticipation and anxiety, of devotion and doubt. No one over the centuries has embodied these voices better than our master poets, who have taken raw feelings and shaped them into immortal monuments. In this audiobook, the greatest poems on love and marriage will stir your heart and memories.

Unabridged, 1 Playaway, Poetry, DP8148, 9781606408148, $49.99
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