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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure: A BBC Radio Collection of Poetry, Prose and Song by Judi Dench Synopsis A delightful pairing of archive programs in which Judi Dench, in the company of her husband Michael Williams and their friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, reads a cornucopia of poetry and prose. Interspersed with witty and reflective banter, the... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Compact Disc
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The Giant Book of Poetry: The Complete Audio Edition by William H. Roetzheim Synopsis Nineteen audio CDs grouped by poetry subject, including: Romance; Inspiration and faith; Lust, betrayal and lost love; Eternity; Growing up and growing old; Children; Ghosts, evil and superstition; Loss and sorrow; Nature; the Human condition; Working... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - Compact Disc
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Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work Low-Price CD: Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work Low-Pr Publisher Comments A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets - here available on CD A reawakened love for the sound of poetry has made modern poems subtly... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Compact Disc
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Look to the Future: Ruth Stone Reading from Ordinary Words and Simplicity by Ruth Stone Publisher Comments Look to the Future presents ninety-six-year-old Ruth Stone, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, in a rare "salon" recording of NBCC Award-winning Ordinary Words with Simplicity (the collection that many of Stone's... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Compact Disc
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77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments Garrison Keillor loves poetry. Each day, public radio listeners hear him read one of his favorite poems on The Writerand#8217;s Almanac. He has published three previous poetry collections: 3 Doz. Poems (the most popular poems from the radio program... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Compact Disc
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Morning Song by Susan (edt) Todd Publisher Comments Poignant, inspiring, and full of wisdom, Morning Song celebrates the joy a new child brings to the life of parents and family. With sources ranging from the Bible, Sappho, and traditional songs to Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and our outstanding... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Compact Disc
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Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson, Volume I by Emily Dickinson Synopsis Emily Dicknson today is gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing,... (read more) Your price: $18.75 New - Compact Disc
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Listen and Learn French - With CD (2ND 04 Edition) by Dover Publisher Comments 50-minute CD of 39 great French poems recorded by native-speaking Frenchman Michel Moinot includes major works by 30 French poets including François Villon, Pierre de Ronsard, Jean de La Fontaine, Voltaire, Chenier, Hugo, Baudelaire, and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection CD by Nikki Giovanni Publisher Comments 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. When her poems first emerged from the Civil Rights and Black Arts... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Compact Disc
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Evgenii Onegin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin Publisher Comments Evgenii Onegin is best known in the West through Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. But the original narrative poem (consisting of 389 stanzas, the form of which has become known as the 'Pushkin sonnet') is one of the landmarks of Russian literature. In... (read more) Your price: $28.98 New - Compact Disc
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Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes (Voice of the Poet) by Langston Hughes Publisher Comments THE VOICE OF THE POET A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience... (read more) Your price: $18.75 New - Compact Disc
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The Spoken Word: American Poets (British Library - British Library Sound Archive) by British Library Publisher Comments This incredible three-CD set drawn from the archives of the BBC captures the voices of poets from the twentieth century, one of the most prolific and significant periods in American letters. Capturing the enormous energy and variety in American... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Compact Disc
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Leaves of Grass [With eBook] by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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Poets of the Great War by Michael Maloney Publisher Comments Poetry by definition, achieves its effects by rhythm, sound patterns and imagery. One of the most popular areas of audiobooks -- spoken poetic form -- evokes emotions and sensations by bringing the voice of the poet to life in an appropriately intimate... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Compact Disc
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Classic American Poetry by Garrick Hagon Publisher Comments Poetry by definition, achieves its effects by rhythm, sound patterns and imagery. One of the most popular areas of audiobooks -- spoken poetic form -- evokes emotions and sensations by bringing the voice of the poet to life in an appropriately intimate... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Compact Disc
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Charles Bukowski Uncensored CD: From the Run with the Hunted Session by Charles Bukowski Publisher Comments From his early hardscrabble life to his literary success, Charles Bukowski's unique personality came alive through his work. In 1993, the year before he died, this counterculture icon recorded and published selections from his classic Run With the Hunted.... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Audio Cassette
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E. E. Cummings Reads: A Poetry Collection by e e cummings Publisher Comments 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." This collection of Cummings reading his own... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Audio Cassette
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John Keats: Selected Poems by John Keats Synopsis Keats is recognized as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses. His worship of beauty and truth found its finest expression in his immortal odes.... (read more) Your price: $33.00 New - Compact Disc
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Essential Walt Whitman (Caedmon Essentials) by Ed Begley, Sr. (nrt) Publisher Comments 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. Indeed, Whitman was the wind which blew poetry from its moorings in tradition and... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Compact Disc
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Great Poets of the Romantic Age by Michael Sheen Synopsis Poetry by definition, achieves its effects by rhythm, sound patterns and imagery. One of the most popular areas of audiobooks -- spoken poetic form -- evokes emotions and sensations by bringing the voice of the poet to life in an appropriately intimate... (read more) Your price: $17.98 New - Compact Disc
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