29 Best General, Poetry Books
General, Poetry is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top General, Poetry audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 General, Poetry audiobooks below.
-
Selected Poems Aldous Huxley
- By: Aldous Huxley
- Narrator: Nano Nagle
- Length: 1 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
-
5(1 ratings)
5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.95 USDA beautiful selection of poems from a young man who would become a brilliant author and essayist, a thinker who was very much at the forefront of changes in the twentieth century. Here is a book that could be carried in your pocket and readA beautiful selection of poems from a young man who would become a brilliant author and essayist, a thinker who was very much at the forefront of changes in the twentieth century. Here is a book that could be carried in your pocket and read quickly–a poem of innocent love or remembrance of events that make the boy become the man.
... Read more -
Droga Do Nieba (Road to Heaven)
- By: Sona Van
- Narrator: Beata Pozniak
- Length: 1 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: Polish
-
5(5 ratings)
5(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThis collection of Sona Van’s poems is a tribute to the victims of genocide and war. With extraordinary feminine sensitivity, the poet looks at the world in all its striking contrasts, constantly probing the depths of her consciousness withThis collection of Sona Van’s poems is a tribute to the victims of genocide and war. With extraordinary feminine sensitivity, the poet looks at the world in all its striking contrasts, constantly probing the depths of her consciousness with new modes of expression. The collection consists of ephemeral poems characterized by dramatic encounters with nothingness in which an uncanny ability to capture extreme situations prevails. Sona Van’s poetry represents the truest testimony of historical experience and the reality in which it still lives. Full of unexpected juxtapositions of time, rhythm, and imagery, the poems are inspiring to believers and skeptics alike.
Full contents:
File 01:
1. Libretto dla pustyni (Libretto for the desert)
File 02:
2. Jestem wiecznym pajakiem (I am the eternal spider)
3. W ciemnosci oszalala… (Going crazy)
4. Gdy mnie nie bedzie… (When I’m gone)
5. Lubie twoja… (I like your…)
6. Wierze… (I believe)
7. Biografia (Biography)
8. Boze Narodzenie (Christmas)
File 03:
9. W tym dniu (On this day)
File 04:
10. Znudzilam sie (I got bored)
11. Zycie… (Life)
12. Gdy chce (When I want)
File 05:
13. Inna zima (A different winter)
File 06:
14. Przysiegam (I swear)
File 07:
15. Zabawa w chowanego (Hide and seek)
16. Wreszcie… (At last)
17. Muzo… (Muse)
18. W dniu… (When)
19. Zderzylam sie z toba… (I bumped into you)
File 08:
20. Dlaczego nie doczekalam konca (Why I didn’t make it to the end)
21. Niebo?… (Sky?)
File 09:
22. Z okna samolotu (From the window of an airplane)
23. . Moja muza… (My muse)
File 10:
24. Emigrant Ormianin (Armenian emigrant)
25. Moje sny niezliczone wariackie (Countless wild dreams)
File 11:
26. Mijaja milosci (Love passes by)
File 12:
27. Jakie to uczucie (What kind of feeling)
File 13:
28. Wziac… czapke? (Take …. a hat?)
File 14:
29. Niewazne jak sie nazywam (It doesn’t matter what my name is)
File 15:
30. Usmiechajacy sie ptak (Smiling bird)
31. Przed chwila zlamal sie (Just broke)
32. Wkrotce zrobi sie ciemno (Soon it’ll be dark)
File 16:
33. Najpierw piorun… na pewno (Lightning comes first)
34. Kiedy… (When)
35. Znalazlam juz (I’ve found it)
36. To nie wydaje mi sie (I don’t think so)
File 17:
37. Poczekaj troche (Wait a minute)
38. Ja?…(Me?)
File 18:
39. Daj mi odejsc (Let me go)
40. Oto i nasza wies (Here is our village)
File 19:
41. Pierwsze skurcze (First contractions)
42. Jesli wina naprawde… (If a fault…)
43. Urodzilam sie z czlowieka (I was born of men)
44. Dobro i zlo (Good and evil)
File 20:
45. Wszechswiat w Tobie (The universe inside of you)
46. Stan moj proroku (Wait my prophet)
File 21:
47. Swiat jest pelen dawnych milosci (The world is full of old love)
File 22:
48. Noc zmienia wszystko (Night changes everything)
49. Ostatnio… (Lately)
File 23:
50. Ballada o koniu (A ballad about a horse)
File 24:
51. Szczesliwy jest ten… (Lucky is the one who sees but not believes)
52. W dni… (During those days)
File 25:
53. Gdy jestem sama… (When I am lonely)
54. Wybudowalam miasto (I created a city)
55. Wiatr… (Wind)
56. Ostatni dzien jesieni… (Last day of fall)
57. Czy pamietasz polane? (Do you remember the glade?)
File 26:
58. Pierwszy byl placz (First there was a cry)
59. Poeta zmarl… (The poet died)
File 27:
60. ,,Tajemnica zycia Wladcy” (The Lord’s secret)
61. Znalazlam Cie Panie Boze (I found you God)
File 28:
62. Laska niewiedzy (Cane of ignorance)
63. Czy byla to chwila… (Was it a moment)
File 29:
64. Osobista historia (A personal story)
65. Czasie… (Time)
... Read more -
Chwile zamyslenia (Moments of Reflection)
- By: Barbara Bukowska
- Narrator: Beata Pozniak
- Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: Polish
-
5(3 ratings)
5(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USD“Chwile zamyslenia” – Beata Pozniak, aktorka – tuz przed niespodziewana smiercia krewniaczki, Barbary Bukowskiej, otrzymuje wiersze napisane przez nia. Barbara “pisala tylko tak dla siebie”. Wiersze sa osobiste,“Chwile zamyslenia” – Beata Pozniak, aktorka – tuz przed niespodziewana smiercia krewniaczki, Barbary Bukowskiej, otrzymuje wiersze napisane przez nia. Barbara “pisala tylko tak dla siebie”. Wiersze sa osobiste, rodzinne – autorka przeprowadza rozmowe ze swoja podswiadomoscia, z nadprzyrodzona sila, z Bogiem. Pozniak piszac Wstep do tomiku “Chwile zamyslenia”(ebook i paperback) i czytajac wiersze Bukowskiej (audiobook), przypomina nam wszystkim, zeby sie nie poddawac, czas doceniac, i…. jak autorka stwierdza, zeby “dobry slad pozostawic po sobie na ziemi”. A znow Andriej Siniawski utrzymuje, ze ,,Czlowiek rodzi sie w jednym egzemplarzu i kiedy ginie, nikt go nie moze zastapic.” Zatem kazdy z nas ma potencjal w sobie i cos do ofiarowania z siebie innym. Nalezy tylko znalezc to i dalej przekazywac maluczkim mieszkancom planety Ziemi.
... Read more -
Libretto for the Desert
- By: Sona Van
- Narrator: Beata Pozniak
- Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
-
4.8(8 ratings)
4.8(8 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDIn A Libretto for the Desert, Sona Van’s subject is the Armenian genocide, also known as the Great Catastrophe. Van’s parents and grandparents were driven into exile due to this horrific event. Her poems reflect a personal connection toIn A Libretto for the Desert, Sona Van’s subject is the Armenian genocide, also known as the Great Catastrophe. Van’s parents and grandparents were driven into exile due to this horrific event. Her poems reflect a personal connection to this history as well as the universality of loss, persecution, and intolerance.
... Read more -
I Give You the Springtime of My Blushing Heart
- By: Dedan Gills
- Narrator: Belvie Rooks
- Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
-
4.5(1 ratings)
4.5(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThe story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and new as now.” Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an evenThe story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is “as old as eternity and new as now.” Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love. Dedan (1945-2015) was a lifelong social justice and human rights activist who viewed himself as a “soulutionary.” His favorite mantra–“Music is my medicine! Kindness is my song!”–was not only the hallmark of his work but the quality of his presence. Barbara Holmes writes, “His laughter, wisdom, and attentive presence set the example of how to soar while on this human journey.”
Belvie and Dedan’s journey took them to Accra, Ghana, where they were married; across the United States and Canada–including the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Trail–planting trees and building community in cities like Toronto and Oakland as part of their organization Growing A Global Heart; and finally to Dedan’s cancer diagnosis and passing at Zen Hospice in San Francisco in 2015. This book, born of that journey, speaks to love that is at once personal, collective, and cosmic. Each page holds an invitation to seek beauty amidst heartbreak, and to raise the level of humanity. Belvie’s wisdom and listening for how this book wanted to be written, and the reflections of many who knew Dedan well, allow it to resonate with remembrance, but also with a future born of each of us.
... Read more -
The Nightfields
- By: Joanna Klink
- Length: 1 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 07, 2020
- Language: English
-
4.48(78 ratings)
4.48(78 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDA new collection from a poet who has made “a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent” (Louise Gluck). Joanna Klink’s fifth book begins with personal poems of loss–a tree ripped out by a windstorm, aA new collection from a poet who has made “a body of work at once utterly lucid and breathtakingly urgent” (Louise Gluck).
Joanna Klink’s fifth book begins with personal poems of loss–a tree ripped out by a windstorm, a friendship broken off after decades, the nearing death of parents. Other poems take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at the mercilessness of having, as one ages, to rule things out. There are elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems. The Nightfields closes with “Night Sky,” thirty metaphysical poems inspired by the artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in Arizona that Turrell has been transforming into an open-air observatory for the perception of time. The sequence unfolds as a series of revelations that begin in psychic fear and move gradually toward a sense of infinitude and connection.
... Read more -
Donald Hall: Prose & Poetry
- By: Donald Hall
- Narrator: Donald Hall
- Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
-
4.48(32 ratings)
4.48(32 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDAuthor of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs here dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from six of his works of prose. Donald Hall has been writing poems for over fifty years and now stands as one ofAuthor of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs here dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from six of his works of prose. Donald Hall has been writing poems for over fifty years and now stands as one of America’s foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire among other honors, Donald Hall gives each listener this gift of words–words painstakingly entwined with passion, energy and love. Prose & Poetry is a tour de force–an intimate convergence of poet, author, and listener.
... Read more -
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser
- By: Muriel Rukeyser
- Narrator: Tanya Eby
- Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 01, 2021
- Language: English
-
4.38(26 ratings)
4.38(26 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDThe definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel RukeyserThe definitive edition of selected work from a poet whose influence continues to be widely felt today, introduced by Natasha Trethewey
Engaging closely with the violence, oppression, and injustice that she witnessed in her lifetime, Muriel Rukeyser was one of the seminal poets of the mid-twentieth century. Closely informed by issues relating to equality, social justice, feminism, and Judaism, her impassioned poetry was often seen as a mode of social protest, but it was also heralded for its deep emotional impact; its personal perspective; forthright discussion of the female experience, particularly sex and single parenthood at a time when these topics were largely taboo; and its wide-ranging exploration of genre and form. As Adrienne Rich wrote: “Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry is unequalled in the twentieth-century United States…She pushes us…to enlarge our sense of what poetry is about in the world, and of the place of feelings and memory in politics.”
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser represents the curation of Rukeyser’s most enduring and urgent work, gathered in one volume that spans the many decades of her life and career, and with an introduction from Natasha Trethewey, one of our most important contemporary poets.
... Read more -
Felon
- By: Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Narrator: Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Length: 1 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
-
4.36(1978 ratings)
4.36(1978 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDA searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems– canvassing his wide range of emotions and experiencesA searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times).
... Read more
Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems– canvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace– and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post-incarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a “felon.”
From “Night”
What she tells me: prison killed you
my love, killed you so dead that you’re not
here now, you’re never here, you’re always. -
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
- By: Joy Harjo
- Narrator: Joy Harjo
- Length: 1 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
-
4.35(1908 ratings)
4.35(1908 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in theA musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a “magician and a master” (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.
... Read more -
We Speak Your Names
- By: Pearl Cleage
- Narrator: Pearl Cleage
- Length: 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
-
4.31(255 ratings)
4.31(255 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.006.95 USD“Sisterhood in the service of truth is an undeniable force in these remarkable times. My Sisters, here, there, and everywhere, this poem is for you.” In the tradition of Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman, bestselling author Pearl“Sisterhood in the service of truth is an undeniable force in these remarkable times. My Sisters, here, there, and everywhere, this poem is for you.”
In the tradition of Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman, bestselling author Pearl Cleage brings us an inspiring poem for all women, destined to become a classic.
Cleage refers to We Speak Your Names as a “celebration” which is part of an oral tradition that encompasses the entire history of the African American experience. This tradition, she says, grew out of an understanding that “some things must be spoken out loud to get where the magic is.” What results is a praise poem which acknowledges the legacy of those who have gone before, and a realization, “with a knowing deeper than the flow of human blood in human veins, that we are part of something better, truer, deeper.”
... Read more -
Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times
- By: Taisia Kitaiskaia
- Length: 1 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
-
4.3(282 ratings)
4.3(282 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.99 USDBaba Yaga offers more off-kilter remedies for the modern dilemmas of an unstable age using her uncanny style, poetic simplicity, and surprising candor.In this follow-up to Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, award-winningBaba Yaga offers more off-kilter remedies for the modern dilemmas of an unstable age using her uncanny style, poetic simplicity, and surprising candor.
... Read more
In this follow-up to Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, award-winning writer Taisia Kitaiskaia once again embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to provide life advice to the questioning and the hurting. Answering real questions from readers, Baba Yaga provides responses in the form of short poems that are lyrical, surreal, sometimes funny, and always honest. During these difficult days, Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times provides literary self-help for readers who appreciate Baba Yaga’s strange, surprising style and striking honesty. -
Here Is New York
- By: E. B. White
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 1 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
-
4.29(7560 ratings)
4.29(7560 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.95 USDPerceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the tenPerceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and the New Yorker called it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”
Included with this essay are two short poems by E. B. White: “Commuter” and “Critic,” both published in the New Yorker in 1925.
... Read more -
An American Sunrise
- By: Joy Harjo
- Narrator: Joy Harjo
- Length: 1 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
-
4.29(4937 ratings)
4.29(4937 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA 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 theA 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. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings. Her poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice. A descendent of storytellers and “one of our finest–and most complicated–poets” (Los Angeles Review of Books), Joy Harjo continues her legacy with this latest powerful collection.
... Read more -
Emily Dickinson
- By: Emily Dickinson
- Narrator: Mary Woods
- Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
-
4.26(83986 ratings)
4.26(83986 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.95 USDEmily Dickinson today has 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 andEmily Dickinson today has 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, 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.
The poems included in this collection are grouped by three time periods, 1890, 1891, and 1896, and by the subjects of life, love, nature, and time and eternity.
... Read more -
Tertulia
- By: Vincent Toro
- Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 02, 2020
- Language: English
-
4.25(34 ratings)
4.25(34 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDVincent Toro’s new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the tertulia) and revises it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, these poems examine immigration,Vincent Toro’s new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the tertulia) and revises
... Read more
it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, these poems examine immigration,
economics, colonialism, and race via the sublime imagery of music, visual art, and history. Toro draws from his own
social justice work in various U.S. cities to create a kaleidoscopic vision of the connections between the personal
and the political, the local and the global, in a book that both celebrates and questions the complexities of the
human condition. -
John Keats
- By: John Keats
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 2 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
-
4.25(21480 ratings)
4.25(21480 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0011.95 USDOne of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as the age of romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force.One of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as the age of romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force. John Keats was a prominent shaper of this new movement, and as such, he was not without his critics.
“I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death,” he soberly prophesied. Indeed, Keats suffered an early tragic death of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five but today is recognized as the archetypal romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the pleasures of the senses.
Unlike Shelley, Keats was not a political poet; his prime passion was for art. His muse was the goddess of beauty and truth, and his worship of her found its finest expression in his immortal odes, which stand unique in literature, unexcelled in perfection.
The poems collected here are: 1. “Oh Chatterton! How Very Sad Thy Fate” 2. “O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell” 3. “To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent” 4. “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” 5. “To My Brothers” 6. “Great Spirits Now on Earth Are Sojourning” 7. “On the Grasshopper and Cricket” 8. “After Dark Vapours Have Oppressed Our Plains” 9. “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” 10. “On the Sea” 11. A Selection from “Endymion” 12. “To Mrs. Reynolds’ Cat” 13. “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again” 14. “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” 15. “Lines on the Mermaid Tavern” 16. “O Thou Whose Face Hath Felt the Winter’s Wind” 17. “For There’s Bishop’s Teign” 18. “On Visiting the Tomb of Burns” 19. “Old Meg She Was a Gipsey” 20. “This Mortal Body of a Thousand Days” 21. “There Is a Joy in Footing Slow across a Silent Plain” 22. “The Eve of St. Mark” 23. “Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell” 24. “Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art” 25. “Hyperion: A Fragment” (Book I), II, and III) 26. “Hyperion: A Fragment” (Book I, continued; Book II, Book III) 27. “La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” 28. “Sonnet to Sleep” 29. “Ode to Psyche” 30. “Ode to a Nightingale” 31. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 32. “Ode on Melancholy” 33. “Ode on Indolence” 34. “Lamia” (Part I) 35. “Lamia” (Part I, continued; Part II) 36. “To Autumn” 37. “The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream” 38. “This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable”
... Read more -
A Cruelty Special to Our Species
- By: Emily Jungmin Yoon
- Narrator: Emily Jungmin Yoon
- Length: 1 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: September 18, 2018
- Language: English
-
4.25(865 ratings)
4.25(865 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDA piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talent. In her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women,A piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender, race, and violence from a sensational new talent.
In her arresting collection, urgently relevant for our times, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing in particular on Korean so-called “comfort women,” women who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II.
In wrenching language, A Cruelty Special to Our Species unforgettably describes the brutalities of war and the fear and sorrow of those whose lives and bodies were swept up by a colonizing power, bringing powerful voice to an oppressed group of people whose histories have often been erased and overlooked. “What is a body in a stolen country,” Yoon asks. “What is right in war.”
Moving readers through time, space, and different cultures, and bringing vivid life to the testimonies and confessions of the victims,Yoon takes possession of a painful and shameful history even while unearthing moments of rare beauty in acts of resistance and resilience, and in the instinct to survive and bear witness.
... Read more -
Leaves of Grass
- By: Walt Whitman
- Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: June 02, 2020
- Language: English
-
4.13(2282 ratings)
4.13(2282 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDIn 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished byIn 1855, Walt Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free-verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and praising the senses and sexual love, this monumental work, now a classic of American poetry, was condemned as immoral upon publication. Included in this edition are some of the greatest poems of modern times, works that continue to upset conventional notions of beauty and originality even today.
... Read more -
I Wrote This for You: Please Listen
- By: Iain S. Thomas
- Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
-
4.08(40 ratings)
4.08(40 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDStarted as an online multimedia project in 2007, I Wrote This For You became an acclaimed poetry collection of hauntingly beautiful words and emotion that’s unique to each person who reads it. This never-before released audio edition isStarted as an online multimedia project in 2007, I Wrote This For You became an acclaimed poetry collection of hauntingly beautiful words and emotion that’s unique to each person who reads it. This never-before released audio edition is narrated by the author.
... Read more
I Wrote This For You: Please Listen focuses on a different facet of life, love, loss, beginnings and endings. This audio project inspired by the original book weaves the poetry into a never-before heard holistic narrative.
“I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get it.” -
Robert Browning
- By: Robert Browning
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 5 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
-
4.02(4569 ratings)
4.02(4569 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDRobert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His conviction was that life in this world is so riddled with evil and sorrow that only a future life can make sense out of it. He viewed life as aRobert Browning was a deeply religious man who wrestled to obtain and keep his Christian faith. His conviction was that life in this world is so riddled with evil and sorrow that only a future life can make sense out of it. He viewed life as a training ground which God provided in His divine love and sovereign will.
Given Browning’s intensely romantic love affair with Elizabeth Barrett, it is characteristic that he should view love as life’s animating force and the key to its meaning. To Browning, the most dreaded fate would be to live a “ghastly smooth life, dead at heart.” This view of life is projected throughout his poetry.
Included in this collection are “Johannes Agricola in Meditation”, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, “Youth and Art”, “Beatrice Signorini”, “Spring Song”, and many others.
... Read more -
Every Word You Cannot Say
- By: Iain S. Thomas
- Length: 2 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
-
4.02(5824 ratings)
4.02(5824 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDA special, dramatized audiobook version read by the author and Roshina Ratnam.**I know you don’t want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you’re just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about.A special, dramatized audiobook version read by the author and Roshina Ratnam.
... Read more
**I know you don’t want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you’re just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about. Sometimes it can be hard to say, “this is beautiful,” when no one else can see what you see. Or, “Here, this is where the pain is.” But some part of you knows, the truth about the words you cannot say is that they only hurt until you say them. They only hurt until the person who needs to hear them, hears them. Because we are human, and the closest we’ve ever come to showing each other who we really are, and how we love, is with words. So I’m going to try to say to you here, what I wish you’d say to me too. Please.
Listen. We can change things.
Here.
Audio edition has multiple narrators and added soundscapes for an enhanced listening experience. -
Ask Baba Yaga: The Audiobook Collection
- By: Taisia Kitaiskaia
- Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
-
4.02(50 ratings)
4.02(50 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDFrom the beloved online advice column, ASK BABA YAGA is a collection of off-kilter, sometimes funny, and always strikingly honest advice, answering real reader questions about relationships, self-knowledge, and how to face our troubling world.PoetFrom the beloved online advice column, ASK BABA YAGA is a collection of off-kilter, sometimes funny, and always strikingly honest advice, answering real reader questions about relationships, self-knowledge, and how to face our troubling world.
... Read more
Poet and author Taisia Kitaiskaia embodies the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga, to provide poetic life advice to the questioning and the hurting in this audio collection of her books, Ask Baba Yaga and the all-new Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times.
Enjoy the witchy, clever, candid advice of Baba Yaga in all of her otherworldly wisdom. -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- By: Anonymous
- Narrator: Bill Wallis
- Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe famous Middle English poem by an anonymous English poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudelyThe famous Middle English poem by an anonymous English poet is beautifully translated by fellow poet Simon Armitage in this edition. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight narrates in crystalline verse the strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts the Round Table festivities one Yuletide, casting a pall of unease over the company and challenging one of their number to a wager. The virtuous Gawain accepts and decapitates the intruder with his own ax. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide Gawain dutifully sets forth. His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dream-like castle, a dire challenge answered, and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing.
... Read more -
Couplets
- By: Maggie Millner
- Narrator: Maggie Millner
- Length: 1 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
-
4(67 ratings)
4(67 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDA dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone. A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: ofA dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone.
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real.
One night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch swings open in the floor of her life. She falls into a consuming affair–into queerness, polyamory, kink, power and loss, humiliation and freedom, and an enormous surge of desire that lets her leave herself behind.
Maggie Millner’s captivating, seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession, gender, identity, and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, Couplets chronicles the strictures, structures, and pitfalls of relationships–the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments–and how the people we love can show us who we truly are.
... Read more -
Love Her Wild
- By: Atticus
- Length: 41 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
-
3.98(26948 ratings)
3.98(26948 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDThe first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars.Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands ofThe first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars.
... Read more
Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his Instagram account @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and Shay Mitchell. He was dubbed the “#1 poet to follow” by Teen Vogue and “the world’s most tattoo-able” poet by Galore magazine, in Love Her Wild, Atticus captures what is both raw and relatable about the smallest and the grandest moments in life: the first glimpse of a new love in Paris; skinny dipping on a summer’s night; the irrepressible exuberance of the female spirit; or drinking whiskey in the desert watching the rising sun. With honesty, poignancy, and romantic flair, Atticus distills the most exhilarating highs and the heartbreaking lows of life and love into a few perfectly evocative lines, ensuring that his words will become etched in your mind–and will awaken your sense of adventure. -
Dear Girl
- By: Aija Mayrock
- Length: 44 minutes
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
-
3.94(808 ratings)
3.94(808 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDFrom a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes readers on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share.Dear Girl is a journey from girlhood toFrom a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes readers on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share.
... Read more
Dear Girl is a journey from girlhood to womanhood through poetry
It is the search for truth in silence
The freeing of the tongue
It is deep wounds and deep healing
And the resilience that lies within us
It is a love letter
To the sisterhood -
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Best-Loved Poems
- By: Robert Browning
- Narrator: Steven Pacey
- Length: 2 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
-
3.9(5 ratings)
3.9(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDSeventy-one poems are included from these two influential poets of nineteenth century England who were also man and wife. The poetry reveals their passion, ideas, and dedication to social causes. This two-CD set offers the listener a convenient waySeventy-one poems are included from these two influential poets of nineteenth century England who were also man and wife. The poetry reveals their passion, ideas, and dedication to social causes. This two-CD set offers the listener a convenient way to hear favorite poems of Elizabeth easilyand find the preferred poetry of Robert with maximum accessibility. Included among the poems of Robert are “Love among the Ruins,” “Home Thoughts from Abroad,” “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister,” “Abt Vogler,” “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” and sixteen others. Among Elizabeth’s best-loved works are “Grief,” “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point,” “Casa Guidi Windows,” the forty-four complete Sonnets from the Portuguese, and four others.
... Read more -
The Iliad
- By: Homer
- Narrator: Jeff Harding
- Length: 20 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: August 19, 2016
- Language: English
-
3.89(355936 ratings)
3.89(355936 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDThe Iliad is an epic Greek poem written by philosopher Homer, and is considered one of the oldest pieces of western literature still in existence. The story takes place during the last weeks of the ten year Trojan War, with a focus on the quarrelsThe Iliad is an epic Greek poem written by philosopher Homer, and is considered one of the oldest pieces of western literature still in existence. The story takes place during the last weeks of the ten year Trojan War, with a focus on the quarrels between King Agamemnon and the legendary warrior Achilles. However, this tale’s most famous scene is when the Greek’s give a gift to the Trojans of a large wooden horse, but one that is filled with soldiers, that allows the Greeks to infiltrate the high walls of the city of Troy. Many Scholars believe the Iliad was originally composed in an oral tradition, intended to be heard, not read, making this epic classic a must have for audiobook listeners!
... Read more
Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
Recent Blogs
-
July 06, 2023
Which books are available on Spotify?
-
July 06, 2023
Are audiobooks free on Spotify with membership?
-
June 25, 2023
Top Destinations for Free eBooks and Audiobooks Online
-
June 25, 2023
Best Alternative to Barnes & Noble Online
-
June 25, 2023
The Best Places to Buy eBooks: Beyond the Kindle Ecosystem
-
June 25, 2023
What are the best places to find free ebooks?
-
June 25, 2023
Best Independent Companies to Buy eBooks from
-
April 19, 2023
How many Game of Thrones books are there?
-
April 19, 2023
Where to buy cheap books: A comprehensive guide
-
April 19, 2023
How many Jack Reacher books are there?
-
April 19, 2023
How many FNAF books are there?
-
April 19, 2023
How many Warrior Cats books are there?
-
April 19, 2023
How many Wheel of Time books are there?
-
April 19, 2023
The best Vampire Survivors powerups in order
-
April 19, 2023
How to read the Robert Galbraith books in order
-
April 19, 2023
How to read the Artemis Fowl books in order
-
April 19, 2023
How to read Craig Johnson’s books in order
-
April 19, 2023
How to read Cassandra Clare’s books in order
-
April 19, 2023
How to read Lee Child’s books in order
-
April 18, 2023
How to read the In Death book series in order
-
April 18, 2023
Best book quotes
-
April 18, 2023
A tale of two cities reviewed
-
April 18, 2023
All the President’s Men reviewed
-
April 18, 2023
Tintin reviewed
-
April 18, 2023
What are adult coloring books?
-
April 18, 2023
How to read the Percy Jackson books in order
-
April 11, 2023
How to find charities for the blind
-
April 11, 2023
What is the best Bible app
-
April 11, 2023
Where to find free audio Bible downloads
-
April 11, 2023
What is the best free Bible app
More in this series
- 29 Best Leadership Books
- 29 Best Real Estate Books
- 29 Best City & Town Life, Juvenile Fiction Books
- 24 Best Halloween, Juvenile Fiction Books
- Get inspired with the best books by Glennon Doyle
- 29 Best Drama Books
- 22 Best Intelligence & Espionage, History Books
- 29 Best Personal Memoirs, Social Science Books
- 29 Best Gay Books
- 18 Best Civil War Period (1850-1877), Biography & Autobiography Books
- 11 Best Mammals, Juvenile Fiction Books
- 29 Best Spiritual Growth, Self-Help Books
- 29 Best Mysteries & Detective Stories Books
- 27 Best Biology Books
- 29 Best 21st Century, Political Science Books
- 29 Best Devotional Books
- 11 Best Study & Teaching Books
- 29 Best Animals Books
- Best books by Margaret Atwood
- 11 Best Water Sports Books
- Best Romance Books Coming in 2023
- 13 Best Personal Memoirs, Cooking Books
- 19 Best Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, etc. Books
- 23 Best Social History, History Books
- 18 Best Entertaining Books
- 20 Best Exercise Books
- 19 Best South Books
- 18 Best Family, Juvenile Fiction Books
- 15 Best Medical, Medical Books
- 29 Best Mice, Hamsters, Guinea Pigs, etc., Juvenile Fiction Books