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Author/Reader:
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Format: 2
CDs
(Unabridged)
Written from the heart to the heart, featuring music by Rich Dworsky. The host of A Prairie Home Companion and NPR's The Writer's Almanac reads his own poems about love. From childish love and grown-up love to love of God, he shares his thoughts in his unmistakable, unforgettable voice. "Utterly contemporary tone and diction. He sounds like himself."—Booklist
Item #: D2Z761
ISBN: 9781598877618
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Authors:
William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and others
Readers:
Alexander Scourby, Bramwell Fletcher, and Nancy Wickwire
Format: 2
CDs
(Unabridged)
Timeless works from 39 major British and American poets, ranging from Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, and Wordsworth to Keats, the Brownings, Whitman, Dickinson, and Yeats, all brilliantly read. CDs are the ideal medium for poetry collections;find favorite selections easily.
Item #: D20382
ISBN: 9780945353829
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Author:
Anthology
Reader:
Laura Paton
Format: 1
CD
(Abridged)
Eloquent love poetry from a woman's perspective expresses passion with sincerity and rapture. Delight in romantic works from Heloise, Browning, Mansfield, Sands, and others. They express their very real passion intensely. Includes the music of Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, and Elgar.
Item #: D1E388
ISBN: 9789626343883
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Author:
Anthology
Reader:
Michael Sheen
Format: 1
CD
(Abridged)
It may be difficult to speak your love for her. So let these poets tell her how much you care. Includes romantic works by Shakespeare, Burns, and Byron, with the music of Puccini, Grieg, Fauré, and Elgar.
Item #: D1E389
ISBN: 9789626343890
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Author/Reader:
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Format: 3
CDs
(Abridged)
He saw the best minds of his generation. This remarkable poet, one of the greatest cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, helped created the Beat Generation. This collection includes Howl, Kaddish, Who to Be Kind To, White Shroud, Footnote to Howl, Sunflower Sutra, America, A Supermarket in California, My Sad Self, Wales Visitation, Sad Dust Glories, Plutonian Ode, My Green Automobile, Neal's Ashes, Many Loves, September on Jessore Road, Father Death Blues, and more.
Item #: D3H415
ISBN:
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Author/Reader:
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
Format: 1
Cassette
(Unabridged)
Made shortly before her death in 1974, this recording features the poet reading 24 poems selected from different periods in her creative life. Featured poems include Her Kind, Divorce, Thy Name Is Woman, My Little Girl, My String Bean, andothers. Her work continues to dazzle new generations of readers and listeners by her brutal honesty which is always thought provoking and often controversial.
Item #: D1H222
ISBN: 9780694522224
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Author/Readers:
T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, and others
Format: 3
CDs
(Abridged)
Experience the greatest poets of the 20th century reading their own works. Includes T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, and more. "All are significant recordings... a treasure, a constant surprise and revelation, and an unparalleled listening experience."—AudioFile
Item #: D3H278
ISBN: 9780694522781
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Author:
Keith Winston
Reader:
Ralph Cosham
Format: 1
CD
(Unabridged)
These modern lyrical ballads examine life and relationships. Includes Riviera, A Girl Named Ynez, Looking Through a Cardboard Cylinder, A Time, Broken Column, Leaky Boat, Black Spruce, Other Voices, Davenport Variations, Stars and Stripes Forever, The One Solution, Embankment, Coming Back, Well of Loneliness, and Screen Door to the Sea, which was inspired by the Jamie Wyeth painting of the same name. An extraordinary reading brings vitality and warmth to these works.
Item #: D1X608
ISBN: 9781584726081
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Authors:
William Butler Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Robert Burns, and other Celts
Reader:
Ralph Cosham
Format: 2
CDs
(Unabridged)
Rage and beauty, life on the North Sea, love, despair, hope, and pride: rejoice in this celebration of the poetry of William Butler Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Robert Burns, and other Celtic poets.
Item #: D2X237
ISBN: 9781584722250
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Author:
Jonathan Swift
Reader:
Ralph Cosham
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Playaway
(Unabridged)
Rage and beauty, life on the North Sea, love, despair, hope, and pride: rejoice in this celebration of the poetry of William Butler Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Robert Burns, and other Celtic poets.
Item #: DP8186
ISBN: 9781606408186
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Anthology
Readers:
Garrick Hagon, William Hootkins, Liz Ross, and others
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Playaway
(Unabridged)
PREVIOUS COPY: *unabridged selections includes work of Emily Dickenson, Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and many more. "The Unites States themselves are essentially the greatest poem," said Walt Whitman.
Item #: DP4965
ISBN: 9781602524965
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Anthology
Readers:
Benjamin Soames, Stella Gonet, David Timson, Edward de Souza, and Matthew Marsh
Format: 2
CDs
(Audio Orig)
A witty, bawdy, erotic but classic collection of poetry designed to celebrate the most sensual of human pleasures. All aspects of erotic love appear in these poems – from the bawdy to the sensuous and tender. Includes verse by Herrick, Marlowe, Yeats, Jonson, Byron, Verlaine, Whitman, Cummings, and Betjeman.
Item #: D2E938
ISBN: 9789626349380
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Editor:
William Harmon
Readers:
Contemporary Poets
Format: 5
CDs
(Unabridged)
Entertaining guide to the finest verse in the English language. Each of the 100 most anthologized poems in English is prefaced with concise, often humorous commentary. Includes the work of Shelley, Byron, Burns, Coleridge, Whitman, Donne, Wordsworth, Milton, Dylan Thomas, and others.
Item #: D5Z578
ISBN: 9781598875782
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Authors:
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
Readers:
Nancy Wickwire and Alexander Scourby
Format: 2
Cassettes
(Unabridged)
The best-loved and most important American poets of the 19th century. These two lyric poets shared an expressive love of nature and pioneered a historic break with the traditional conventions of poetry.
Item #: D20385
ISBN: 9780945353850
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Author:
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Reader:
Bobby Norfolk
Format:
Playaway
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872, to parents who were both former slaves. From this humble and impoverished background, he went on to achieve international recognition for his work, which he alternately rendered in African-American dialect and in standard English. His work was popular with both black and white readers. "[Norfolk's] interpretation complements the energy and depth of Dunbar's work."—AudioFile
Item #: HP8522
ISBN: 9781598958522
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Author:
Dylan Thomas
Readers:
Dylan Thomas, Richard Burton, Philip Madoc, Jason Hughes, Michael Sheen, and Richard Bebb
Format: 4
CDs
(Audio Orig)
The best of the brilliant Welsh poet. Includes the classic Richard Burton recording of Under Milk Wood, as well as Thomas and others reading Fern Hill, Do Not Go Gentle, and Poem in October. Short stories include The Outing, Peaches,and The Fight. Audie Award finalist. "Saturated in the musical speech of Wales, they dazzle with lush imagery, cascading sonorities, heady earthiness, and bold flourishes."—AudioFile
Item #: D4E343
ISBN: 9789626343432
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Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reader:
Archibald Macleish
Format:
Playaway
(Unabridged)
Although Emerson's poetry reveals that he regarded life as a tragedy, he also had a belief in humanity, a pride in human life. This collection includes many of his best-known works – including Each and All, The Problem, and Hamatreya– read by Archibald MacLeish, a distinguished poet himself. "A rare treasure... enlightening."—AudioFile
Item #: DP7108
ISBN: 9781608127108
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Editor/Reader:
Robert Pinsky
Format: 1
CD
(Unabridged)
A vibrant anthology and CD that revive a great American tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud. The former U.S. Poet Laureate takes a fresh look at traditional favorites. Includes poems by Shakespeare, Dickinson, and Frost along with contemporary work by John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, Yusek Komunyakaa, and others.
Item #: D1X820
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Author/Reader:
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Format: 1
Cassette
(Abridged)
Pound's poetry as well as his life were subjects of controversy. Here, he reads his own work, beautifully showcasing his innovative iedas and searing vision. Featured is his most ambitious poetic project of all: the "Cantos," which recieved the first Bollingen Award for achievement in American poetry in 1949. Also includes "The Gypsy" and "The Exile's Letter."
Item #: D1H430
ISBN: 9780694524303
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