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This audiobook is a part of a series that explores the more questionable aspects of life and love through prose and poems. 

Beowulf, a masterpiece of ancient literature, reminds us of a world prior to the scientific revolution, where things were dark and monsters roamed in swamps and dragons hoarded gold in mountains. Beowulf is a character to be admired yet not without caution. Timeless, this oft-translated piece of old English literature will be sure to delight and teach you something.

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Memoir. Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August explores how anxiety and escape can shape a life from childhood to adulthood. This hybrid of lyrical essays and poetry weaves a delicate thread across the country, through dreams and nightmares, euphoria and fear, and intimacy and distance, always with particular attention to form and language. With dreamlike imagery, a unique inventiveness, and emotional clarity, the collection dissects that which we are too afraid to touch in our waking hours. 

This collection of 23 poems contains most of the verse for which Wildred Owen is known today. Few poets have captured more effectively the tragic dichotomy of war, where, for many, survival can be a fate worse than death. The opening poem "Strange Meeting" describes a posthumous encoaunter between a soldier and an enemy combatant who he has killed on the previous day. The penultimate poem, "Disabled", is the private lament of a crippled veteran as he helplessly surveys the daily lives of people unscarred by war.  

Wer kennt sie nicht, die einfühlsamen, spöttischen, ironischen, derben und zarten Liebesgedichte von Heinrich Heine. Hans Jürgen Stockerl rezitiert eine Auswahl aus dem Buch der Lieder, stimmungsvoll ergänzt durch eigene Klavierkompositionen. Hören Sie die schönsten Gedichte, Variationen desselben kleinen Themas, wie Heine sein literarisches Schaffen 1823 selbst beschreibt.

In this book, you will listen to poems about me and my past. I use writing as medication and therapy. Catastrophic LP was written to inform the audience on who I am as a person and some life situations I have gone through. Some people have told me before, “Forget about the past”, but to me, the past is a way to remember who you are. 

As a fan of mainstream singer and songwriter music, I have become an expert in the dualistic creative process and passion involved in art.

The 72 poems in this book cover many types of love: for the author’s three guide dogs, for her six children, for her parents and grandparents, for God and nature, for her many friends, and in a handful of light-hearted selections, for food. The many romantic poems express love for both real people and dream lovers and for ideals yet unattained. 

In Crossing Thresholds: Island Reflections, Amba Gale, Amazon best seller, transformational coach, and founder of Gale Leadership Development, invites us to join her through her heartful poetry, breathtaking photographs, and, what she calls “teaching questions” to embrace and complete the endings in our lives and to create new futures - futures that bring us more fully alive.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Mountains Within: Poems of the Wild and experience poetry about the wild today.

Poetry. The poems in Bell I Wake To create a sacred space honoring seasons, generations, the body, and every living creature the poet comes across. Patty Crane writes with the kind of attention Simone Weil says is close to prayer, and indeed under her gaze, everything is blessedly alive with song and shimmer, present in its leafing out and its leaving. Her supple language can transform a white birch into a mouthful of sunrise and then to the flush on a young girl's cheek.

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?

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. 

Revised edition: Same poetic content you know and love, but with a few minor edits and an adjusted cover! Love is a mess and while some choose to clean and organize it, others choose to run around and play in it. There are different ways to love, ones to love, and kinds of love. So, let’s fall in, rise out of, and be in love together. Rise in Love: A Poetry Chapbook is a collection of poems celebrating the many nuances love has, reminding listeners that just because love is complicated doesn’t mean it can’t also be wonderful.

Wooden Lions is the ultimate animal-lovers’ audiobook, with each poem in this amazing collection cradling the soul of a creature. Morton’s poetry winds through our connection with the animal spirit, breathlessly binding us forever in their wisdom; their endless lifting up of humankind. This is a celebration of all beasts, reminding us to cherish all those who nurture us.

A book of short stories coupled with contemporary poetry in different forms.

Love from the Vortex & Other Poems (Kaleidoscope Vibrations, LLC) is poet and scholar-activist Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz’s first full-length collection. An archaeological exploration on love and intimacy, the book charts her journey of finding and losing love over the span of three decades with six different men who came into her life at various times, but also offers a universal take on what can happen when one seeks love and connection with others, and the lessons that follow when that connection and love is lost.

Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes, in the first powerfully elegiac section, a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the US border with Mexico. The poems of the third section - a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s - rise like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. 

Beneath a Willow Tree takes us on a journey to fall more deeply in love with life through a deep connection with the natural world. These 33 poems celebrate the cosmic dance of nature and Spirit and honor the mysterious bond between our inner and outer landscapes. Join Lucy Wyer as she extols nature’s gifts that help us to expand our mystical consciousness. 

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.