The Poetry category has 514 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 598 ratings. The most-rated is Unlearn.
Poems to the Three Goddesses
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Poems to the Three Goddesses starts with poems to to Marie, Christine, and Leila, who are imaginary beings representing the best qualities that women uphold. The second half is to a Goddess named Daphne, who is meant to represent every woman. She is also known as The Goddess of Hope (you'll see why). The poems are meant to be inspiring and, well, simply gorgeous. The poems are, generally speaking, gestures of appreciation toward women in the highest esteem and regard. When you listen to this book, you'll just fall in love with words again. These poems are meant to inspire good things like hope, love, beauty, and meaning. They are written efficiently, eloquently, and with a touch of pizazz. Such remarkable writings by an ambitious new poet are meant to entertain and inspire everyone to be better people and to experience the wonder of life while they are in love with another person. These words capture a power that can touch and move people. Just try it, think about it, or just ahead and get it. You truly will be surprised and absolutely amazed by these brilliant, artful poetic writings having to do with the best qualities that life has to offer. You'll absolutely love it. Just listen, and thank you. Kind regards, Steven Yessick PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Steven Yessick (P)2021 Steven Yessick
The Math Campers
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A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet. The poet's art is revealed in stages in this "making-of" book, where we watch as poems take shape - first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem "Must We Mean What We Say", a woman reader narrates in prose the circumstances behind poems and snippets of poems she receives in letters from a stranger. Who made up whom? Chiasson, an acclaimed poetry critic, has invented a remarkable structure where the reader and a poet speak to one another, across the void of silence and mystery. He is also the father of teenaged sons, and this volume continues the autobiographical arc of his prior, celebrated volumes. One long section is about the age of 13 and the dawning of desire, while the title poem looks at the crucial age of 15 and the existential threat of climate change and gun violence, which alters the calculus of adolescence. Though the outlook is bleak, these poems register the glories of our moment: that there are places where boys can kiss each other and not be afraid; that small communities are rousing and taking care of each other; that teenagers have mobilized for a better world. All of these works emerge from the secretive imagination of a father as he measures his own adolescence against that of his sons and explores the complex bedrock of marriage. Chiasson sees a perilous world both navigated and enriched by the passionate young and by the parents - and poets - who care for them.
©2020 Dan Chiasson (P)2020 Random House Audio
Poets of Nature 2
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Enjoy a deep woodland walk with these poets as your guide. Each poem has been carefully selected for its direct access to the heart of nature accompanied by the music of Beethoven, Debussy, and Grieg. This is the second book in this series.
©2019 BMA Audio (P)2019 BMA Audio
Lone Wolf
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The second collection of original verse by the maverick multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis.
©2004 Felix Dennis (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks
Puppy Poems and Rodent Rhymes
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A collection of poems of various lengths and styles, all written for some of the various pets my hubby and I have had. The pets mentioned in this collection include four degus, two rats, two chinchillas, and two dogs. All poems are captioned with details of the pets they are about.
©2018 Victoria Zigler and Keroberous Publishing (P)2019 Victoria Zigler and Keroberous Publishing
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead. In 70 poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered - the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.
©2018 Terrance Hayes (P)2019 Tantor
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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More than 4,000 years ago, in what's today the nation of Iraq, people were working on versions of this poem about the greatest hero the world had ever seen - King Gilgamesh of Uruk. One-third man, two-thirds god, tyrant, traveler, and tragic figure. He who continues to speak to us to this day, reflecting eternal values of love and friendship, courage, fear, and acceptance of death. In this volume, you will learn about this work of world literature, although many of you are probably already familiar with it. A new verse that has been recently discovered, and fresh insight prevails.
©2020 DTTV Publications (P)2021 DTTV Publications
If Men, Then
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A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold's second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold's language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world's fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named "I" - a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy. "Griswold narrates with a strong voice and moderate pacing. 'What can we offer the child at the border,' she begins with her poem Prayer. Then she continues with her other pieces about race, immigration, and spirituality." (BookRiot)
©2020 Eliza Griswold (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
El sol y sus flores
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Segundo y poderoso poemario de esta autora best seller. Dividido en cinco movimientos (marchitarse; caer; enraizar; crecer; florecer), este poemario se desliza desde las profundidades de un desamor y el dolor que conlleva hasta la fuerza y la alegría que pueden florecer tras ese sufrimiento. Un vibrante y trascendental viaje sobre el crecimiento y la curación, la descendencia y el honor por las raíces de uno, la expatriación y la búsqueda del hogar en uno mismo. "Rupi Kaur está derrumbando los muros del sector editorial." (The New York Times) "Otras maneras de usar la boca es, desde hace tiempo, el libro más vendido en Estados Unidos. Pero le ha salido un duro competidor: El sol y sus flores, su segundo poemario." (Los Angeles Times) Este audiolibro está narrado por Elvira Sastre, poeta y traductora de la obra de Rupi Kaur. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2017 rupi kaur (P)2018 Editorial Planeta S.A.
100 Love Sonnets
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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. Generations of lovers since Pablo and Matilde have shared these poems with each other, making 100 Love Sonnets one of the most popular books of poetry of all time. This beautifully redesigned volume, perfect for gift-giving, presents graceful English translations of the original Spanish sonnets. Please note: This audiobook is in English.
©1959 Pablo Neruda. Heirs of Pablo Neruda 1986 by the University of Texas Press Editorial Losada, S.A., Buenos Aires, 1960 (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
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El Neruda Esencial [The Essential Neruda]
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Mas de cien anos despues de su nacimiento, la poesia de Pablo Neruda es tan vital y querida como siempre. Esta coleccion presenta cincuenta poemas esenciales de uno de los mas grandes poetas de la historia en nuevas traducciones dinamicas, fruto de una colaboracion sin precedentes entre un equipo de poetas, traductores y los principales eruditos del mundo.Una seleccion definitiva que se basa en toda la amplitud de los diferentes estilos, temas y periodos de Neruda. El Neruda esencial da vida y comprension al mundo de uno de los tesoros de America Latina y del mundo. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2004 City Lights Books (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
A Healing for Gaia: A Celebration of Life and Living
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The starting point here became a dream to express the only vehicle we have to explore this amazing planet: our body. And we all share the same home, this beautiful Earth we live upon. These are poems celebrating our right to grow and evolve through the one true power of the universe - love. It also acts as a wake-up clarion call for us all to cherish this world of ours...treading more lightly through the realization of our role as co-creators. It is up to all of us to determine exactly how our shared home, the Earth, heals - and how essential this has become for ourselves and future generations. Here is the poet speaking from the heart as never before and seeking to reach all of your hearts through love and his desire we all evolve together.
©2015 Dean Fraser (P)2021 Dean Fraser
Scattered
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Scattered is a collection of poems between the time periods of 2012 - 2019 from the humorous and eclectic mind of Justin Johnson. While some pieces are contrived from complete fantasy others tap into the mental and history of Justin. Whether it's dealing with his own self-doubts and depression, reminiscing over past relationships or presenting interesting stance towards social and political issues, Justin’s erratic writing style is here to remind you that you aren't in this alone and a good laugh can help battle any personal conflicts you are facing.
©2021 Justin Johnson (P)2021 Justin Johnson
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
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Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death with the instant classic The Rose That Grew from Concrete. His talent was unbounded - a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic - a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable - as vibrant and alive today as it has ever been. This collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions. Written in his own hand from the time he was 19, these 72 poems embrace his spirit, his energy - and his ultimate message of hope.
©2009 Tupac Shakur (P)2021 Shakur LLC
Words That Burn
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Following the success of Catching LIfe by the Throat, Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell. Read by a dazzling cast of actors including Eileen Atkins, Nancy Carroll, Alan Cox, Charles Dance, Joanna David, Lindsay Duncan, Edward Fox, Emilia Fox, Robert Hardy, Tom Hollander, Jeremy Irons, Felicity Kendal, Elizabeth McGovern, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Greg Wise.
©2008 Josephine Hart (P)2008 Hachette Digital
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
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In her debut collection of poetry, Conyer Clayton hovers in the ether, grasping for certitude in often wrong places. Through experiences with addiction and co-dependence, sex and art, nature and death, she grapples for transcendence while exploring what it means to disengage. What is revealed when you allow yourself to truly feel? What do you ask for to carry you into life, and where do you land when this fails? And when you are finally, beautifully, emptied out, who are you? The poems in We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite wonder aloud amidst tangled revelations, and yearn to be lifted away. "The poems in this stunning debut construct a world by colliding its sharpest angles. Instead of an orderly pastoral landscape, Clayton gives us 'a pasture / with a rusted tractor.' Instead of happily-ever-after, we get 'ruins of rock, the frantic mess / we made.' These poems manage to wrench beauty from loss, absence, departure - the various goodbyes that transition us along our individual paths. In this book, Clayton’s speaker emerges from the darkness of grief into 'the space between / earth and sky,' a realm of generous possibility, where poetry begins." (Kiki Petrosino, author of Witch Wife and Hymn for the Black Terrific) "Conyer Clayton’s rich, unpredictable lines are imbued with the transformational traces and scars that humans, nature, and contraptions leave on one another. Vivid sounds and images stagger Plinko-like through these deeply personal poems that display both murmuration and volatility. This is a book that resonates." (Stuart Ross, author of Motel of the Opposable Thumbs and A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent)
©2020 Guernica Editions (P)2021 Page Fright Audio
Native Guard
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Based on Natasha Trethewey's collection of poems, The Alliance Theatre's production of Native Guard is both an elegy to her mother and a journey into Mississippi's Civil War history. In poetry and song, she reflects on her mother's passing while contemplating the former slaves who became soldiers in a regiment known as the Native Guard. Trethewey's work was the winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This recording was produced with the generous support of The Poetry Foundation. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in July of 2018. Directed by Rosalind Ayres Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg January LaVoy as The Poet Thomas Neal Antwon Ghant as the Native Guard And featuring Nicole Banks Long on vocals and Tyrone Jackson on piano. Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Associate Producer, Studio Production Coordinator, and Mixing Engineer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Production Assistant, Amanda Allen. Recording Engineer, Erick Cifuentes. The Alliance Theatre production was originally directed by Susan V. Booth. Offsite Producer for The Alliance Theatre, Donya Washington. Composer and Music Director, Tyrone Jackson. Original Sound Design, Clay Benning. Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey, used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. As conceived and originally produced by the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia. Susan V. Booth, Artistic Director. Mike Schleifer, Managing Director.
©2018 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2018 L.A. Theatre Works
Sunset
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A book of modern contemporary poetry using forms from around the world.
©2021 Eugenia Fain (P)2021 Eugenia Fain
Nothing Is Okay
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Nothing Is Okay is the second full-length poetry collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about our bodies and our beings, and builds new ways of viewing ourselves. As she delves into queerness, feminism, fatness, dating, and race, Wiley molds these topics into a punching critique of culture and a celebration of self. A fat positive activist, Wiley's work soars and challenges the bounds of bodies and hearts, and the ways we carry them. Contains mature themes.
©2018 Rachel Wiley (P)2019 Button Publishing Inc
The Universe You Swallowed Whole
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The poems in this collection fly from the microcosm of ripples in a lake to the macrocosm of light bending in a black hole, from math to jazz, from informal to formal, from the here-and-now to the hereafter. This short book contains an infinite universe - one that you will long to return to again and again.
©2020 Kimberly Leah Maines (P)2020 Richard Scott Hughes