Bestsellers
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,794
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Performance3,266
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Story3,241
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...
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Beautiful recording marred by audio problems!
- By Arthurian Tapestry on 05-06-12
By: Homer
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance52
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Story52
Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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It will fill your cup.
- By Viktor P. on 08-12-25
By: Andrea Gibson
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance3
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Story3
This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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You Are Here
- Poetry in the Natural World
- By: Ada Limon - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Kim Ramirez
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Ada Limon challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets.
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The Book of Taliesin
- Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
- By: Taliesin, Gwyneth Lewis - translator, Rowan Williams - translator
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Story15
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by David Sibley, best known for Henry V, War & Peace and Silent Witness. This definitive recording is translated by, and includes an introduction by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan William. Taliesin's is one of the most important names in all...
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Great book and explanation
- By John on 02-14-22
By: Taliesin, and others
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You and Yours
- By: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
A beloved, best-selling American poet with an international reputation celebrates the sacred in all things....
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,794
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Performance3,266
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Story3,241
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...
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Beautiful recording marred by audio problems!
- By Arthurian Tapestry on 05-06-12
By: Homer
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Lord of the Butterflies
- By: Andrea Gibson
- Narrated by: Andrea Gibson
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance52
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Story52
Another masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson’s career....
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It will fill your cup.
- By Viktor P. on 08-12-25
By: Andrea Gibson
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Collected Poems 1947-1997
- By: Allen Ginsberg
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance3
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Story3
This magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets.
By: Allen Ginsberg
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You Are Here
- Poetry in the Natural World
- By: Ada Limon - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Kim Ramirez
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Ada Limon challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets.
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The Book of Taliesin
- Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
- By: Taliesin, Gwyneth Lewis - translator, Rowan Williams - translator
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Story15
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by David Sibley, best known for Henry V, War & Peace and Silent Witness. This definitive recording is translated by, and includes an introduction by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan William. Taliesin's is one of the most important names in all...
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Great book and explanation
- By John on 02-14-22
By: Taliesin, and others
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You and Yours
- By: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
A beloved, best-selling American poet with an international reputation celebrates the sacred in all things....
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
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A Choir of Honest Killers
- By: Buddy Wakefield
- Narrated by: Buddy Wakefield
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
A Choir of Honest Killers, Buddy Wakefield's 2019 release of prose and poetry, is a staggeringly honest account of life alone on the road, the prolonged agony of a failed relationship in the midst of public shame, and frequent specific serendipity.
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Espetacular
- By Ricardo Cesar on 12-24-25
By: Buddy Wakefield
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This Made Me Think of You
- Short Romantic Poems for Him and Her
- By: Emily Bird
- Narrated by: Julia Garlotte
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
To describe This Made Me Think Of You would be to describe love... nearly impossible in one short description, especially to someone who hasn't read/experienced it. So we'll end here with one short message: Discovering love is a beautiful journey.
By: Emily Bird
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A People's History of Chicago
- By: Kevin Coval
- Narrated by: Kevin Coval, Jamila Woods
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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Story11
Writing in the tradition of Howard Zinn, Kevin Coval’s A People’s History of Chicago celebrates the history of this great American city from the perspective of those on the margins, whose stories often go untold....
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Better in Print
- By Katie Rosewicz on 10-04-22
By: Kevin Coval
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Mexico City Blues
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
A long poem in Kerouac’s freewheeling and spontaneous improvisational style, Mexico City Blues is a unique epic of sound, rhythm, and religion.
By: Jack Kerouac
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- By: Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrated by: C. S. Verdád
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance60
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Story56
More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever....
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I love Neruda
- By heather on 08-06-18
By: Pablo Neruda, and others
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Spoon River Anthology
- By: Edgar Lee Masters
- Narrated by: Amanda Friday, Andy Harrington, Elizabeth Klett, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Spoon River Anthology is a collection of poems that describe life - and death - in a small town. Each poem is a monologue delivered by a resident of Spoon River, describing events in their lives, and the circumstances that led to their occasionally untimely end....
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Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]
- By: Charles Baudelaire
- Narrated by: Jerome Fonlupt
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Publié en 1857, Les Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire, est un recueil de poèmes qui explore les thèmes de la beauté, du mal, de la mélancolie, et de la révolte.
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Good, Occasionally Rhyming
- A celebration of the Shipping Forecast in poetry and prose
- By: Rob Stepney, Kathy Clugston
- Narrated by: Kathy Clugston, Jim Lee
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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And now, the Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office… Often described as a litany, mantra or lullaby, the Shipping Forecast has long been a favourite of cosy homes on chilly evenings. Its practical use as a precise reading of the marine weather around the British Isles has been largely...
By: Rob Stepney, and others
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The Poetry of Carl Sandburg
- By: Carl Sandburg
- Narrated by: Susan Anspach, Roscoe Lee Browne, Robert Foxworth, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance13
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Story12
Known as a "poet of the people," Carl Sandburg wrote verses infused with soulfulness and lyric grace, and his work was characterized with a love and compassion for the common man. Here is a collection of nearly 100 of his best poems....
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Wondergul Readings of Sandburg's Poetry
- By Dale on 07-17-17
By: Carl Sandburg
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Danger on Peaks
- By: Gary Snyder
- Narrated by: Gary Snyder
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story24
Perhaps Snyder most personal, autobiographical collection, the audio begins with the young poet ascending Mt. St. Helens in 1945, a climb accidentally timed with the bombing of Hiroshima....
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Gary Snyder in a Lifetime, Unforgettable
- By Susie on 05-05-16
By: Gary Snyder
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Vinegar Hill
- Poems
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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Story1
From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to...
By: Colm Tóibín
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Sea Garden
- By: Hilda Doolittle
- Narrated by: Nancy Beard
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Hilda Doolittle was an American poet and novelist who was one of the founders of the Imagist movement, which includes such poetic luminaries as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington, with both of whom Doolittle had romantic relationships.
By: Hilda Doolittle
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Light For The World To See
- A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story14
From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwin’s “A...
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Powerful
- By SH on 11-04-23
By: Kwame Alexander
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The Weary Blues (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance44
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Story44
Langston Hughes was only twenty-four when he published his debut collection of poetry, The Weary Blues. The poems included here blend vernacular speech and musical rhythms to offer a bracing perspective on the African American experience....
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Fantastic
- By MalcolmB on 10-31-25
By: Langston Hughes
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New Hampshire
- By: Robert Frost
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall219
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Performance190
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Story189
New Hampshire features Frost's meditations on rural life, love, and death, delivered in the voice of a soft-spoken New Englander. Critics have long marveled at the poet's gift for capturing the speech of the region's natives and his realistic evocations of the area's landscapes....
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Magical
- By Robert S. Becker on 03-08-21
By: Robert Frost
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Native Echoes
- Listening to the Spirit of the Land
- By: Kent Nerburn
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
From the grandeur of the Great Plains to the solitude of the northern woods, from the intensity of a summer storm to the quiet redemption of a fresh blanket of snow, Kent Nerburn's Native Echoes pays homage to the power of the land to shape our hearts and spirits. An Ojibwe elder once counseled...
By: Kent Nerburn
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Helen of Troy, 1993
- Poems
- By: Maria Zoccola
- Narrated by: Maria Zoccola
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
Named a Best Book the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, Electric Literature, and more! “Zoccola has beautifully and resourcefully reimagined this mythic material…Zoccola’s Helen has succeeded in joining her mythic forebear.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice Part myth...
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Brilliant, can’t wait to listen to this again
- By Richard McKown on 09-15-25
By: Maria Zoccola
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Кобзар
- By: Тарас Шевченко
- Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Кобзар — збірка поетичних творів геніального українського митця Тараса Григоровича Шевченка, що увібрала в собі найбільш видатні його вірші та поеми...
By: Тарас Шевченко
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Campos de Castilla [Fields of Castile]
- By: Antonio Machado
- Narrated by: Rafael Baena Zapatero
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Campos de Castilla, publicado en 1912, es, probablemente, el libro más influyente de la poesía en español del siglo XX....
By: Antonio Machado
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If Today Were Tomorrow
- Poems
- By: Humberto Ak'abal, Michael Bazzett - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Bazzett, Magdalena Kaluza
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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A legacy of land and language courses through this spirited bilingual edition, offering an expansive take on the internationally renowned work of Humberto Ak’abal, a K’iche’ Maya poet born in the western highlands of Guatemala.
By: Humberto Ak'abal, and others
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New American Best Friend
- By: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrated by: Olivia Gatwood
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story15
One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes....
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- By Keaira on 07-29-19
By: Olivia Gatwood
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The Crazy Bunch
- Penguin Poets
- By: Willie Perdomo
- Narrated by: Willie Perdomo
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era
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Fact !!!
- By Eddie cox on 02-04-26
By: Willie Perdomo
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What I Learned from the Trees
- By: L. E. Bowman
- Narrated by: L. E. Bowman
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interactions affect us as individuals, families, and communities....
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Not even sure how I came across this title!
- By victoria on 06-18-23
By: L. E. Bowman
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Glitter Road
- By: January Gill O'Neil
- Narrated by: January Gill O'Neil
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance0
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Story0
A beautiful portrait of how joy is an act of resistance.