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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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The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection
by Allen Ginsberg
Formats: Audio CD ($19.80)
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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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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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 ($11.16)
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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The Bird of Time
by Omar Khayyam
Formats: Audio Download ($6.95)
In this inspiring blend of voice and instrumentation, Swami Kriyananda reads selected quatrains from the sacred poem The Rubaiyat, written nearly a thousand years ago by Omar Khayyam.
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Bird Songs in Literature
by Joseph Wood Krutch
Formats: Audio Cassette ($15.95) | MP3 CD ($19.95)
The songs of birds have been an inspiration to poets since before the days of Chaucer. Now, thanks to modern techniques, we can hear on one recording both the words of the poem itself and the song of the bird that inspired it.
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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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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
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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Classic American Poetry
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($17.98)
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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Classic Erotic Verse
Formats: Audio Download ($14.38)
A witty, bawdy, erotic but classic collection of poetry designed to celebrate the most sensual of human pleasures. Over the ages many poets have put pen to paper in celebration of that most raw and yet most beautiful of human instincts - erotic love.
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Classical Love Poetry
by Homer
Formats: Audio 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 ($10.76)
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 Zi
Formats: Audio Download ($10.00)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Socrates' account of his own quest in Plato's Apology resembles that of Lao Zi. Ancient philosophy in China and in Greece, places self-knowledge as the center of human existence as East meets West.
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Dark Night of the Soul
by Saint John of the Cross
Formats: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($19.98)
The first English translation of the classic sixteenth-century Spanish love poem of the soul and its commentary by a spiritual seeker outside of the Church.
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Essential Cummings
by E.E. Cummings
Formats: Audio CD ($12.95)
A master of experimental and abstract poetry reads a collection of some of his finest poems, now on CD for the first time.
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Essential Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Formats: Audio CD ($12.95)
This collection of Emily Dickinson's poems is interspersed with her luminous and fascinating letters, all read by Julie Harris, who received a Tony Award for her portrayal of Emily Dickinson in "The Belle of Amherst."
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Essential Eliot
by T.S. Eliot
Formats: Audio CD ($10.36)
This recording was made in 1947 and 1955 in London. The selection of poems is the poet's.
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Essential Emerson
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Formats: Audio CD ($10.36)
Although Emerson's poetry reveals that he regarded life as a tragedy, he also had a belief in humanity, a pride in human life which gave America a brief revival of the nobility of spirit in which it was founded. On this CD, Archibald MacLeish, a distinguished poet himself, reads many of Emerson's best-known works.
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Essential Parker
by Dorothy Parker
Formats: Audio CD ($10.36)
Author, poet, screenwriter, and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition.
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Essential Walt Whitman
by Walt Whitman
Formats: Audio CD ($10.36)
A poem by Whitman may be whoops and hollers, or beating of drums, or the ebb of the tide singing to itself among the stones, or laments in the night or cries of ecstasy.
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Ezra Pound Reads
by Ezra Pound
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Ezra Pound's inspirational sway over twentieth century poetry remains unquestioned to this day. Ezra Pound Reads offers a rare opportunity to witness the vision of this awe-inspiring, intensely polemical artist.
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The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser
Formats: Audio Download ($18.38)
This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English. The Faerie Queene combines...
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Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96)
After Emily Dickinson's death in 1886, her sister discovered 1,775 poems bound in small packets...
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The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders
by Jack Prelutsky
Formats: Audio CD ($12.56)
Jack Prelutsky is the undisputed master of hilarious verse for the youngest child. Here are poems about people and animals, set in such far-flung places as Minot, Minneapolis, Tuscaloosa, Tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon.
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