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The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection
by Allen Ginsberg
Formats: Audio CD ($17.60)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation....
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96) | Audio Cassette ($9.60)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading...
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A Lover's Gift from Him to Her
by D. H. Lawrence
Formats: Audio CD ($13.48) | Digital Download ($11.98)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection...
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The Voices of Love
Formats: Audio CD ($14.36)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Love: it is the single human emotion that has inspired the most passionate and despairing poems in the language....
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The Inferno from The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Formats: Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Abandon all hope you who enter here. Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages...
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Seven Ages
by William Shakespeare
Formats: Audio CD ($12.78)
Average Rating:  (4.0 Stars)
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 Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Formats: Audio Cassette ($16.20)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Shakespeare's timeless sonnets, which describe love in all its aspects, represent one of the finest...
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A Lover's Gift from Her to Him
by Christine Rossetti
Formats: Audio CD ($13.48) | Digital Download ($11.98)
Average Rating:  (3.5 Stars)
The eloquence of lovers is celebrated in this rich and sensuous collection - the love of women for men. Heloïse, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Katherine Mansfield...
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Great Speeches and Soliloquies
by William Shakespeare
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Many of Shakespeare's greatest and best-loved speeches are brought together in this superb collection, performed by outstanding artists who bring to vivid life words...
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The Iliad
by Homer
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38)
Average Rating: (2.2 Stars)
Perhaps the greatest poem of the Western world, The Iliad tells the story of 50 critical days toward the end of the Trojan war...
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Introduction to Poetry
by Robert Frost
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (1.4 Stars)
LearnOutLoud.com presents an Introduction to Poetry covering famous poems by great poets throughout the history of English poetry.
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And Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
Formats: Audio CD ($9.60)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
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Langston Hughes Reads
by Langston Hughes
Formats: Audio Cassette ($9.60)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) ranks as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.
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The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
by Nikki Giovanni
Formats: Audio CD ($17.60) | Audio Cassette ($17.06)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
In a career that has spanned over three decades, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self.
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3 Doz. Poems
by Garrison Keillor
Formats: Audio CD ($13.95)
Every day, public radio listeners hear Garrison Keillor reading one of his favorite poems on "The Writer's Almanac"--humorous verse, love sonnets, children's rhymes, classic and contemporary poems. This entertaining collection presents the most popular poems from the program.
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81 Famous Poems
by William Shakespeare
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
An anthology of 39 British and American poets, from Shakespeare and Dunne to Whitman and Yeats.
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Anne Sexton Reads
by Anne Sexton
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Anne Sexton's poems are brutally honest, often controversial, and always thought-provoking. Her work continues to dazzle new generations of readers and listeners.
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Ashley Bryan: Poems & Folktales
by Ashley Bryan
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
An award-winning children's book author/illustrator brilliantly performs two hours of poems and his most endearing folktales.
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Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant
by Jack Prelutsky
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
In Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant, the master of silliness introduces oddly wonderful and uniquely skilled creatures who are combinations of animals and objects.
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Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
by Maya Angelou
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96)
Beloved poet Maya Angelou reads her newest work "Amazing Peace" along with four other poems in this unique and inspiring audio collection.
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Classic American Poetry
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Walt Whitman said, "...poetry is the voice of the nation, expressing its deepest concerns, ambitions and longings," which is certainly true of the great classic poetry of America...
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Classical Love Poetry
by Homer
Formats: Digital Download ($14.38)
Many of us are familiar with the epic stories and legends of the classical world. This anthology, the only one of its kind on audiobook, gives an insight into a more lyrical and tender aspect of Greek...
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The Crescent Moon
by Rabindranath Tagore
Formats: Audio Cassette ($11.95)
In The Crescent Moon three masters from India come together in celebration of the tender innocence of childhood and the joyous, simple pleasures of living.
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Dao De Jing
by Lao Tzu
Formats: Digital Download ($13.75)
These words, written 2500 years ago by Lao Zi resemble Socrates' account of his own quest in Plato's Apology. Ancient philosophy, both in China and in Greece, places self-knowledge as the center of the search for wisdom.
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E.E. Cummings
by E.E. Cummings
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.80)
In asking "Who, as a writer, am I?" e.e. Cummings's affirmation of life resolved into serenity as he described himself as someone "whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow."
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