Bestsellers
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You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.
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How did they let this pass?
- By Anonymous User on 11-22-24
By: Charles Bukowski
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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Raw & intimate
- By Anonymous User on 12-02-23
By: Andrea Gibson
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You Are Here
- Poetry in the Natural World
- By: Ada Limon - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Kim Ramirez
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Ada Limon challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets.
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Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]
- By: Charles Baudelaire
- Narrated by: Jerome Fonlupt
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Publié en 1857, Les Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire, est un recueil de poèmes qui explore les thèmes de la beauté, du mal, de la mélancolie, et de la révolte.
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- By: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrated by: C. S. Verdád
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever....
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I love Neruda
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-18
By: Pablo Neruda, and others
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Danger on Peaks
- By: Gary Snyder
- Narrated by: Gary Snyder
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Perhaps Snyder most personal, autobiographical collection, the audio begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima....
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Gary Snyder in a Lifetime, Unforgettable
- By Anonymous User on 05-05-16
By: Gary Snyder
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You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.
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How did they let this pass?
- By Anonymous User on 11-22-24
By: Charles Bukowski
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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Raw & intimate
- By Anonymous User on 12-02-23
By: Andrea Gibson
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You Are Here
- Poetry in the Natural World
- By: Ada Limon - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Kim Ramirez
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Ada Limon challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets.
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Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]
- By: Charles Baudelaire
- Narrated by: Jerome Fonlupt
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Publié en 1857, Les Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire, est un recueil de poèmes qui explore les thèmes de la beauté, du mal, de la mélancolie, et de la révolte.
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- By: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrated by: C. S. Verdád
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever....
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I love Neruda
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-18
By: Pablo Neruda, and others
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Danger on Peaks
- By: Gary Snyder
- Narrated by: Gary Snyder
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Perhaps Snyder most personal, autobiographical collection, the audio begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima....
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Gary Snyder in a Lifetime, Unforgettable
- By Anonymous User on 05-05-16
By: Gary Snyder
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 48 mins
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Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience....
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Unheard poems and stories In
- By Anonymous User on 03-01-24
By: Langston Hughes
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
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This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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Fifty Shades of October
- By: W B Yeats, William Wordsworth, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar in now upon us and the land prepares to give us more of its colorful coverings as a landscape of thrilling promise and gorgeous colour provides a sumptuous feast as only nature can.
By: W B Yeats, and others
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Mexico City Blues
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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From the renowned Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes this important work of lyric verse, one of his most formally inventive books.
By: Jack Kerouac
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Кобзар
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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Кобзар — збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми...
By: Тарас Шевченко
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Campos de Castilla [Fields of Castile]
- By: Antonio Machado
- Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Campos de Castilla, publicado en 1912, es, probablemente, el libro más influyente de la poesía en español del siglo XX....
By: Antonio Machado
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New American Best Friend
- By: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 54 mins
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One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes....
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- By Anonymous User on 07-29-19
By: Olivia Gatwood
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A Year of Last Things
- Poems
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back....
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Mesmerizing !
- By Anonymous User on 04-08-24
By: Michael Ondaatje
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Helen of Troy, 1993
- Poems
- By: Maria Zoccola
- Narrated by: Maria Zoccola
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Part myth retelling, part character study, this sharp, visceral debut poetry collection reimagines Helen of Troy from Homer’s Iliad as a disgruntled housewife in 1990s Tennessee.
By: Maria Zoccola
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The Collection Plate
- Poems
- By: Kendra Allen
- Narrated by: Kendra Allen
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice....
By: Kendra Allen
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What I Learned from the Trees
- By: L. E. Bowman
- Narrated by: L. E. Bowman
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interactions affect us as individuals, families, and communities....
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Not even sure how I came across this title!
- By Anonymous User on 06-18-23
By: L. E. Bowman
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You and Yours
- By: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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A beloved, best-selling American poet with an international reputation celebrates the sacred in all things....
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
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Judas Goat
- Poems
- By: Gabrielle Bates
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Bates
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships....
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Unforgettable Images…and more
- By Anonymous User on 02-04-23
By: Gabrielle Bates
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Fever of Unknown Origin
- Poems
- By: Campbell McGrath
- Narrated by: Campbell McGrath
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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Fever of Unknown Origin opens at a remote crossroads, where the speaker considers the intersection of history, beauty, and destruction: “the past / is paper / and the present, a match . . .” What follows is an urgent tour of landscapes....
By: Campbell McGrath
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Crashing Waves
- Meditations to Set Yourself Free
- By: Jenna Rose
- Narrated by: Jenna Rose
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Crashing Waves is a companion through the highs and lows of being human. The thread that ties our human body to our infinite soul. The meeting point of the timed and the timeless....
By: Jenna Rose
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Motherlands: Poems
- Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
- By: Weijia Pan
- Narrated by: Weijia Pan
- Length: 43 mins
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This audiobook was selected by Louise Glück as winner of the 2023 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, joining a growing list of successful poetry debuts, including Michael Kleber-Digg’s collection Worldly Things, which has sold more than 4,000 copies.
By: Weijia Pan
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The Moon That Turns You Back
- Poems
- By: Hala Alyan
- Narrated by: Hala Alyan
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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A diaspora of memories runs through this poetry collection—a multiplicity of voices, bodies, and houses hold archival material for one another, tracing paths between Brooklyn, Beirut, and Jerusalem....
By: Hala Alyan
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The Twilight of the Sioux
- A Cycle of the West II
- By: John G. Neihardt
- Narrated by: Robin Neihardt
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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The magnificence and tragedy of the Old West is here, as told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt: the courage of the settlers in the American West, the valiant resistance by the Native peoples who called it home.
By: John G. Neihardt
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Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
- Poems
- By: Kevin Powers
- Narrated by: Kevin Powers
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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National Book Award finalist, Iraq war veteran, novelist, and poet Kevin Powers creates a deeply affecting portrait of a life shaped by war....
By: Kevin Powers
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The Poetry of Strangers
- What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter
- By: Brian Sonia-Wallace
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems....
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A must listen to for poetry lovers.
- By Anonymous User on 07-01-20
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A People's History of Chicago
- By: Kevin Coval
- Narrated by: Kevin Coval, Jamila Woods
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold....
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Better in Print
- By Anonymous User on 10-04-22
By: Kevin Coval
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Birthright
- By: George Abraham
- Narrated by: George Abraham
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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Through poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing....
By: George Abraham
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Fast Speaking Woman
- Chants & Essays
- By: Anne Waldman
- Narrated by: Anne Waldman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this 20th-anniversary expanded edition to add 20 poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “chant” as central to contemporary performative poetry....
By: Anne Waldman
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Spoon River Anthology
- By: Edgar Lee Masters
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday, Andy Harrington, Elizabeth Klett, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems that describe life - and death - in a small town. Each poem is a monologue delivered by a resident of Spoon River, describing events in their lives, and the circumstances that led to their occasionally untimely end....