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Publisher's Summary
Part of a new collection of literary voices from Gibbs Smith, written by, and for, extraordinary women - to encourage, challenge, and inspire. One of American’s most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion, and society. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is a collection of her vast archive of poetry to inspire the writers, creatives, and feminists of today. Continue your journey in the Women’s Voices series with Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Feminist Papers by Mary Wollstonecraft.
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- Carie McK
- 05-17-22
The narrator sounds like a robot using autotune.
I really wanted to enjoy hearing these poems being read, but the narrator sounds so strange and robotic sometimes that I can't focus on the words.
it is also frustrating that there is not an index or any way to find a specific poem. Something in the book is numbered but I have no idea if it's the poems themselves? And if so, why emphasize the numbers? I'd rather have the titles emphasized.
Really bummed.
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- maria
- 09-25-22
Great
Amy Landon did a stellar job. I had heard her voice before but I think this is her best job. Her voice is crystal clear and deep, soothing and filled with emotion. I wouldn’t have finished this one if not for her! Emily was truly a wondrous poet, her metaphors are filled with color, hope and metaphors. A very different experience from what I’m used to but I’m really glad I bought it.
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- Edmund
- 01-15-22
Awful reading Mars beautiful poems
Such a disappointment to hear these beautiful poems read so mechanically with no sense of the flow of the poem but rather is plodding through the reading.
There is also a feeling that the reader is not familiar with some of the words resulting in som jarring pronunciations.
Sadly this one is consigned to my audible bin.
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Eccentric and reclusive, Emily Dickinson wrote poetry that reflects the richness of her interior world and the peculiar beauty of her inner vision. During her lifetime, her poetry was considered too unusual to be publishable, but after her death in 1885, Dickinson achieved posthumous recognition as one of the great poetic voices of the 19th century. This collection, read by Alexandra O'Karma, includes commentary and some of Dickinson's letters as well as 75 of her over 900 poems, including such favorites as "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "'Hope' Is the Thing with Feathers," "There Is No Frigate like a Book," and "There's a Certain Slant of Light."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Reading--But some bad information.....
- By Susan on 02-11-11
By: Emily Dickinson
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The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Here are some of the finest poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), a unique voice in American poetry. She is known for her short poems, full of acute observations, and deft use of language. This careful but imaginative selection shows the remarkable variety she produced, despite the miniature nature of her medium.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and fragile poetry
- By ESK on 01-07-13
By: Emily Dickinson
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Poems by Emily Dickinson
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Poems by Emily Dickinson is a compilation of the poetry of Emily Dickinson in three different series, each composed of the following subjects: Life, Love, Nature, Time, and Eternity.
The notoriously reclusive New England poet broke all the rules of Victorian-era poetry to create a new, uniquely American style. Despite the fact that the majority of the poems recited here were never published in her lifetime, Dickinson remains one of the most influential voices in American literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good reading of a gifted poet
- By portlyfox on 09-03-12
By: Emily Dickinson
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Collected Poems (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Through her transcendent imagery, distinct punctuation, experimental slant rhyme, and wordplay, Emily Dickinson set herself apart from every other poet of her time. These essential works - thematically divided into poems on life, nature, love, and time and eternity - reveal a keen, humorous observer whose art, like the artist herself, defied tradition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pretty good
- By Linh on 01-10-23
By: Emily Dickinson
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Julie Harris
- Length: 45 mins
- Highlights
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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A collection of the finest work of one of America's best-loved poets. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. Critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. Read by Julie Harris.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really beautiful reading of familiar lines from ED
- By Karla Smart on 07-22-17
By: Emily Dickinson
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My Emily Dickinson
- By: Susan Howe
- Narrated by: Susan Howe
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe—taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides—embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award). Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson's intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So beautiful and so beautifully read by the author
- By Barbara Epler on 12-03-22
By: Susan Howe
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Emily Dickinson
- Selected Poems
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Mary Woods
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Emily Dickinson today has gained her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the 19th century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of the natural world and an acute understanding of the most profound human truths.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Computer Reading Voice
- By Desiree on 10-28-13
By: Emily Dickinson
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Leaves of Grass
- The Original 1855 Edition
- By: Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books
- Narrated by: Sam Torode
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
When Walt Whitman self-published "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry. In subsequent editions, Whitman continued to revise and expand his poems - but none matched the raw power and immediacy of the first edition. This volume presents the 1855 "Leaves of Grass" in its entirety, unchanged, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous letter to Whitman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant classic
- By Phil F. on 12-02-18
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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Lives Like Loaded Guns
- Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
- By: Lyndall Gordon
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons and reveals Emily to be a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Take the Subtitle Literally
- By Cariola on 12-04-10
By: Lyndall Gordon
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At Blackwater Pond
- Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver
- By: Mary Oliver
- Narrated by: Mary Oliver
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 293
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 252
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Story5 out of 5 stars 238
Mary Oliver has published fifteen volumes of poetry and five books of prose in the span of four decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. Now, with the arrival of At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver has given her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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High Hopes
- By Sara on 12-19-15
By: Mary Oliver
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot
- Read by Jeremy Irons
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons, Dame Eileen Atkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 322
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horribly Frustrating to Follow
- By AVS on 06-18-18
By: T. S. Eliot
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An American Sunrise
- Poems
- By: Joy Harjo
- Narrated by: Joy Harjo
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 618
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 541
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 537
A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land. In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Earth moving
- By T. Miller on 11-06-20
By: Joy Harjo
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The Selected Poems of Li Po
- By: Li Po, Po Li, David Hinton, and others
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Li Po (AD 701-762) lived in T'ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. He wrote 1,200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An intriguing experience
- By Paula on 02-10-18
By: Li Po, and others
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
- By: Robert Frost
- Narrated by: Susan Anspach, Roscoe Lee Browne, Elliott Gould, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations, and rural imagery, Robert Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. His language is simple, clear, and colloquial, yet dense with meaning and wider significance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Maybe not the poems you were hoping for
- By Info Seeker on 09-25-17
By: Robert Frost
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez, Richard Mitchely, Tim Graham, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Rightly regarded as a major American poet, her life was sheltered, introverted, and reclusive. Despite writing over 1800 poems, only a dozen or so were published during her lifetime. Her structures and wordings are at times difficult to get to grips with, though recurring themes of religion and death certainly shadow many of her works.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Content & Format but...
- By Shawn Lewis Hathcock on 05-17-16
By: Emily Dickinson
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The Poets' Corner
- The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
- By: John Lithgow
- Narrated by: Morgan Freeman, Susan Sarandon, Helen Mirren, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,103
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 952
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 922
John Lithgow has compiled an outstanding collection of memorable poems and has gathered his famous friends to read them. The wide variety of carefully selected poetry in this audiobook provides the perfect introduction to reel in those who are new to poetry, and for poetry lovers to experience beloved verses in a fresh, vivid way. Lithgow offers insightful and sometimes poignant commentary to accompany each poem. His essential criterion is that "each poem's light shines more brightly when read aloud".
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Painless Crash Course in the Great Western Poets
- By Brazilgirl on 10-27-14
By: John Lithgow