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Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks listeners through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging intelligence for which he is known in the classroom. With a breezy style, Sol delivers essays that are perfect for a quick listen or to be grouped together as a curriculum.

The perfect gift for expectant mothers and new mums, whether it's her first baby or her fifth. 'I read every single poem and wished that I'd had this book when I was pregnant, and feeding a baby, and watching her grow.' Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games A collection of honest, fierce...

This dynamic collection of Black voices, performed by Tony and Grammy Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Daveed Diggs and Emmy Award-winning writer, creator, producer, and actor Lena Waithe, works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination. Born from a series of conceptual art exhibitions, the perspectives gathered here are nowhere near monochromatic.

A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors. Love, romance and portrayals of nature are played out in these timeless readings of poetry written during the Romantic period. Performed by Richard Burton, Peter Orr, William Squire, Richard Marquand, Peggy Ashcroft, Margaretta Scott, Tony Church, Derek Godfrey, Patrick Garland, Gary Watson and Janette Richer. This collection includes poems from: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats.

A collection of the greatest poetry from the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors. Science, religion and sexuality are played out in these timeless readings of poetry written during the Romantic period.

Lass Liebe Deine Welt regieren. Wenn die Blitze Dein Herz taumeln lassen, wenn der Abgrund Dich ruft und alles Glück verloren scheint, dann trage ich Dich auf den Flügeln meiner Liebe. Koste vom Glück, entdecke das verborgene Licht und spüre den Sommerregenduft. "Ich trage Dich auf Flügeln" lässt Herzen höherschlagen und passt gut auf das Kopfkissen eines geliebten Menschen.

..tief aus der weiblichen Seele. Mit diesem Lyrik-Hörbuch möchten wir Ihnen eine besondere Auswahl an Gedichten sechs unterschiedlicher Dichterinnen - arrangiert zu einem Gesamtwerk - nahe bringen. Dies sind alles Werke aus der Tiefe der Seele dieser Frauen - vielleicht sogar die Essenz der Empfindungen eines ganzen Lebens, verdichtet in den Strophen der einzelnen Gedichte - ausgewählt und zusammengefügt für den Widerhall des Seelenlebens, der Gefühls- und Gedankenwelt einer jeden einzelnen Frau.

Ella lo dijo, y lo dijo delante de todos para que no hubiera dudas: «si me olvidas, te mato». Desde Sanlúcar de Barrameda partió Luis de Salazar sin más fortuna que la puesta, y con los años aprendió los oficios de truhan, vendedor de carne humana, asistente de inquisidores y maestro en el disfraz. Rodeado de lacayos que le limpian la baba y dan lustro a sus cien pares de botas, Luis de Salazar duerme la siesta de los infelices.

A celebration of love from the author of Ottoline, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This beautiful collection explores love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems...

“I am already a ghost. The girl everyone only loved when she was either high or drunk. The women made invisible by recovery” It is easy to cast judgement upon others you may say, can I do that to myself? Dearest, that is what I do best! These poems take a step back from the love obsessed fool I have been. Without the focus on love, on others and their faults and actions towards me I must look at myself and who I am. Sad Faery Poems follows a heart-shattering look at self, at life and all the hardships endured. Always chasing the light at the end of the tunnel, this time finally reaching it.

Esta compilación reúne voces tanto consolidadas como emergentes que han participado en los micrófonos abiertos de PERRA MALA 666. Los textos aquí reunidos exploran la identidad, el cuerpo y el deseo disidente. Denuncian la violencia y nos animan a buscar en la amistad y en la comunidad alternativas al amor romántico y a la familia tradicional.

寺山修司生誕９０周年記念となる、新たな詩集が誕生。この世界をどう感じ、どう愛せばいいのか。そんな問いに答える、魅惑の言葉たち。迷いの連続である人生を歩むために、詩が必要だった。

Amy writes with exquisite sensitivity to Teilhard’s mystical depth and poetic description of the human experience in the dynamic process of evolution. This is a book one can reflect on many times and never exhaust its content. ~ Ilia Delio, OSF, Villanova UniversityTeilhard de Chardin, evolutionary philosopher and devout Jesuit priest, shared his deepest thoughts through correspondence with his cousin Marguerite Teilhard-Chambon, herself a brilliant thinker, associate professor, and student of Henri Bergson.

Part one of the continuing series entitled Painted Histories indexes leading figures in two significant phases of poetic expression in English literature: the Elizabethans, including William Shakespeare, John Webster and Sir Philip Sidney to the Romantic movement of the early 19th century: Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In this streamlined, lightly modernized version of an ancient legend, Cupid, the eternal God of Love, himself falls in love with the human Psyche. The tale can be enjoyed at many levels: as an exciting adventure, a romantic love story, a mystical parable of humanity’s quest for union with the divine, an expression of the troubled Irish political situation in the early nineteenth century, and for the unfailing beauty and musicality of its verse.

Will Quadflieg interpretiert Balladen und Gedichte von Goethe, Schiller bis Heine mit großer sprachlicher Präzision, innerer Ruhe und einer Stimme, die deutsche Dichtung lebendig eindrucksvoll macht.

From the creator of the beloved @PoetryIsNotaLuxury Instagram account,a gorgeously wrought poetry anthology that is a gift and a guide for readers through every season of life. Inspired by writer and philosopher Audre Lorde’s famous claim: “Poetry is not a luxury,” this anthology proves...

Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath...

Je Dezembertag wird hinter diesen hörbaren Türchen ein Gedicht zu den Themen Winter, Advent, Weihnachten und Jahreswechsel alter bekannter und alter weniger bekannter Dichter:innen präsentiert.

Mit seiner Gedichtsammlung Die Blumen des Bösen schuf er den Grundstein für die moderne europäische Lyrik: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867). Diese Sammlung ist keineswegs eine reine Anthologie von Gedichten, sondern ein durchkomponiertes Ganzes, das in sechs Kapiteln angeordnet ist. Romantik, Melancholie und Weltschmerz sind die beherrschenden Stimmungen dieses großen Werkes, das so viele spätere Poeten so nachhaltig beeinflussen sollte.