Bestsellers
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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....
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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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Help -- I can't stop listening to this
- By Louis on 05-19-10
By: T. S. Eliot
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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Still struggling with poetry
- By Beatrice on 01-30-12
By: Adrienne Rich, and others
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- By: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, and others
- Narrated by: Alexander Neubauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....
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Fascinating
- By d on 08-28-16
By: Lucille Clifton, and others
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The Silver Poets
- By: Michael Drayton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Poetry has over the centuries grouped poets or poems into many different themes and movements. Amongst its most unusual movements are the English wordsmiths, The Silver Poets....
By: Michael Drayton, and others
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise....
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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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Help -- I can't stop listening to this
- By Louis on 05-19-10
By: T. S. Eliot
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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Still struggling with poetry
- By Beatrice on 01-30-12
By: Adrienne Rich, and others
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- By: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, and others
- Narrated by: Alexander Neubauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....
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Fascinating
- By d on 08-28-16
By: Lucille Clifton, and others
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The Silver Poets
- By: Michael Drayton, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Poetry has over the centuries grouped poets or poems into many different themes and movements. Amongst its most unusual movements are the English wordsmiths, The Silver Poets....
By: Michael Drayton, and others
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí
- By: Rupi Kaur
- Narrated by: Pastora Vega
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Con una sensibilidad exquisita, Rupi Kaur aborda en "Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí" algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores...
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I love it
- By Maria Dolores Ibarra on 08-01-23
By: Rupi Kaur
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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Interesting details, great historical context, disappointingly Eurocentric
- By Casey on 08-11-21
By: John Carey
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Black Imagination
- Black Voices on Black Futures
- By: Natasha Marin
- Narrated by: Daveed Diggs, Lena Waithe
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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This dynamic collection of Black voices, performed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Daveed Diggs and Emmy Award-winning writer, creator, producer, and actor Lena Waithe, works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination....
By: Natasha Marin
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This Is the Honey
- An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Mahogany L. Brown, Joel Damany Steingold
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout....
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A thoughtful collection 
- By Amazon Customer on 03-12-24
By: Kwame Alexander
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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wonderful but - no titles
- By anne Hall on 01-28-23
By: Thomas Hardy, and others
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Walt Whitman Poetry Collection
- Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and a Complete Biography of Walt Whitman
- By: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Tom Chandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....
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Influential and emotional
- By Rachel A. on 03-18-21
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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Poems for Men
- By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Ernest Henley, Rudyard Kipling, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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Do men need poems? Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse? Obviously yes. Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved....
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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Not Unabridged, Strictly Speaking
- By Charles B on 07-24-17
By: Richard Ellman
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Japanese Poetry
- By: divers auteurs
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 20 mins
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The classical poetry of Japan focuses on direct experience of fleeting moments, in total contrast with its Occidental counterpart...
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Enjoyable poetry
- By David on 11-13-16
By: divers auteurs
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The Wonder of Small Things
- Poems of Peace and Renewal
- By: James Crews, Nikita Gill - foreword
- Narrated by: James Crews
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life....
By: James Crews, and others
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech....
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The Anthology of 'Music-Makers'
- By ESK on 12-26-12
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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Voices of Black America
- Historical Recordings of Speeches, Poetry, Humor and Drama 1908-1947
- By: William Shaman - editor
- Narrated by: Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908 to 1947....
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Authentic Voices
- By Denyse on 02-02-13
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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Great Poem
- By JCW on 12-30-16
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The Poetry Remedy
- Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul
- By: William Sieghart
- Narrated by: William Sieghart
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice are tailored to those moments in life when we need them most, from general glumness to news overload, and from infatuation to losing the spark....
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Very soothing
- By Nancy S. on 09-16-22
By: William Sieghart
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Poems Every Catholic Should Know
- By: Joseph Pearce
- Narrated by: Kevin O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity....
By: Joseph Pearce
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The Poetry of World War One
- By: Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, and others
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards, Lucy Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.
By: Siegfried Sassoon, and others
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Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
- By: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Robin Miles, Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth....
By: Langston Hughes, and others
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The Poetry of the Romantics
- By: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Pullman, Blair Underwood, Burt Reynolds, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth....
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Piano Music Distracting and loud
- By Booklass on 12-22-23
By: John Keats, and others
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15 Minutes of Love Poems - Volume 1
- A History of Love Poems Ready to Squeeze Into Any Moment of Your Day.
- By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, WB Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 15 mins
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Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us, but the answer remains elusive....
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others
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The Nation's Favourite Poems
- By: BBC Audiobooks
- Narrated by: John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one....
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excellent reading of classic poems with caveat
- By Theodata on 01-17-21
By: BBC Audiobooks
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The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- By: Caroline Kennedy
- Narrated by: Caroline Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Viola Davis, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Caroline Kennedy shares her mother's favorite poems and the inspiration behind her strong belief in the power of literature....
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Reading Anew
- By Linda Chudej on 05-28-17
By: Caroline Kennedy
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Patriotic Poetry: 69 Great American Poems That Inspired Freedom
- American Poetry, Book 1
- By: Christopher Cole
- Narrated by: Charles Hield
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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In this collection, you’ll find stories conveyed through poetry and song. Some of them will no doubt be familiar to you - like Francis Scott Key’s Star Spangled Banner and Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic....
By: Christopher Cole
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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
- By: Various, Lucy Mangan
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
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Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....
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Helps Me Sleep
- By Amazon Customer on 04-26-21
By: Various, and others
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How a Poem Moves
- A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
- By: Adam Sol
- Narrated by: Adam Sol, Soraya Peerbaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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Entertaining, Educational, and Thoughtful
- By Deborah on 11-12-19
By: Adam Sol
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100 Love Sonnets
- Cien sonetos de amor
- By: Pablo Neruda, Stephen Tapscott - translator
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of 100 Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and tides, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wildflowers, and the hot sun and salty scent of the sea to celebrate their love.
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Completely distracting, not in a good way
- By Robert Cedotal Jr on 07-01-21