Poetry bestsellers
The top 50 Poetry audiobooks on Libro.fm based on sales from our 2,000+ partner bookstore locations.
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The Iliad
A New Translation by Caroline Alexander
By Homer & Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Dominic Keating
Length: 19 hours 46 minutes
With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homerās timeless epic of the Trojan War
Composed around 730 B.C., Homerās Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion....
Read more »Bestseller #2
Nikki Giovanni: Love Poems & A Good Cry
What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
By Nikki Giovanni
Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Sheās been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has spoken out on the sensitive issues, including race and gender, that touch our national consciousness.
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Love Poems: Nikki reads a stunning collection of...
Read more »Bestseller #3
Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
Poems
By Misha Collins
Narrated by: Misha Collins
Length: 57 minutes
NEW YORK TIMESĀ BESTSELLER!Ā From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his āArmy For Good," comes his debut poetry collection,Ā Some Things I Still Can't Tell You.Ā Trademark wit and subtle vulnerability converge in each poem;Ā this bookĀ is both a celebration of and aspiration for a life well... Read more »
Bestseller #4
Black Girl, Call Home
By Jasmine Mans
Narrated by: Jasmine Mans
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes
Black Girl, Call Home
“This collection. Have you ever closed a book and suddenly felt that all that you are, all that you've seen has somehow been made tangible through another's voice? Have you ever felt called in to let go, to be heard, and to be seen? That is what Mans has done here. I will forever hold onto the beautiful ways in which Jasmine pulls apart and gives life to the tiny variables which contribute to the formulation of one's blackness, queerness, and womanhood. ”
Deidre, WORD Bookstores
Bestseller #5
The How
Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
By Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
The How
“A brilliant and beautiful work. The author invites a reader to join an internal dialogue. True, Daley-Ward targets a specific age group and gender, but I want to say, she got the attention of this male approaching seventy and held it. Many fine quips and quotes, but the chapters āWhy We Write It Downā and āNot the End of the Dayā stood out for me. Personable, warm, truthful and encouraging. And with a phrase to live by: āOnly you know How.ā”
Doug, Bookstore1Sarasota
Bestseller #6
Voyage of the Sable Venus
and Other Poems
By Robin Coste Lewis
Narrated by: Robin Coste Lewis
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice.
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Robin Coste Lewisās electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The...
Bestseller #7
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
By Dionne Brand
Narrated by: Dionne Brand & Christina Sharpe
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long careerānew and collected poetry from one of Canadaās most honoured and significant poets.
Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brandās poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time... Read more »
Bestseller #8
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By Franny Choi
Narrated by: Franny Choi
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worldsāpast, present, and future. Choiās third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.
Many have called our timeĀ dystopian. ButĀ The World Keeps Ending,...
Read more »Bestseller #9
Time Is a Mother
By Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Time Is a Mother
“Ocean Vuong comes home in his second full-length collection, exploring grief, violence, masculinity and queer life in America. Whether shoveling snow, reversing time, or losing his mother, Vuong will crack you open and heal you.”
Owen Elphick, Main Point Books
Bestseller #10
I Hope This Finds You Well
Poems
By Kate Baer
Narrated by: Kate Baer
Length: 49 minutes
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers, supporters and detractorsāan artform that reclaims the vitriol from online trolls and inspires readers to transform what is ugly or painful in their own...
Read more »Bestseller #11
A Fortune For Your Disaster
Poems
By Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes
A Fortune For Your Disaster
“Hanif Abdurraquibās powerful collection of poems explores the unending heartbreak of being black in America and how to find strength and self-actualization. Landscaped by graves, mirrors, and music these poems take the personal grief of being barked at by dogs and frames and re-frames those aggression into explorations on how our nationās history and ceaseless failures cannot stamp our indelible humanity. The series of poems titled āHow Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like Thisā are defiant manifestos that will be talked about for years to come.”
Luis, Avid Bookshop
Bestseller #12
Homie
Poems
By Danez Smith
Narrated by: Danez Smith
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Homie
“In their third collection, Danez Smith shakes to life the parts of people that have gone to sleep waiting for this time in the world to be over. Those emotions that raise up too much anger or grief ā all of them are alive again and seen and spoken for with utmost care and a tremendously welcome sense of humor. Pick this book up and carry it with you everywhere. It can be like a video game heart for you, and who doesnāt need an extra heart?”
Luis Lopez, Moon Palace Books
Bestseller #13
Beowulf: A New Translation
By Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
If you enjoyed Beowulf, then you’ll love Beowulf: A New Translation.
“Maria Dahvana Headley has created a truly fresh, simultaneously current & ancient, engaging translation of this thousand-year-old hero tale. She's taken great risks as a translator, daring to use the most contemporary language in order to give 21st century readers the same experience of the poem's original audience - hearing the story unfold in the words they used every day.
Every translation is a series of a million branching choices about vocabulary, rhythms, rhyme, syntax, tone, echoes, and more. Headley's intro invites us into her decision process, such as using "Bro!" as the marker for when the narrator is starting new sections, and refusing to translate the description of Grendel's mother as "monstrous" when the text may not support that, despite hundreds of years of male translators who have insisted upon it.
At its heart, "Beowulf" isn't an Official Literary Masterpiece or Series of Puzzles for a PH.D. - it's an around-the-campfire hero and monsters story, told to give shivers, teach listeners what good leadership should look like, and entertain. The summer of 2020 is certainly in need all of these attributes in a story - pop in your earbuds and sink into this tale.”Elliott, Big Blue Marble Bookstore
Bestseller #14
Call Us What We Carry
Poems
By Amanda Gorman
Narrated by: Amanda Gorman
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller
The breakout poetryĀ collectionĀ by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman
Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetryĀ collectionĀ by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet... Read more »
Bestseller #15
At Blackwater Pond
Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver
By Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour
Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. WithĀ At Blackwater Pond,Ā Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems,... Read more »
Bestseller #16
The Hill We Climb
An Inaugural Poem for the Country
By Amanda Gorman
Narrated by: Amanda Gorman & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 9 minutes
Amanda Gormanās powerful and historic poem āThe Hill We Climb,ā read at President Joe Bidenās inauguration
āStunning.āĀ āCNNĀ
āDynamic.āĀ āNPR
āDeeply rousing and uplifting.āĀ āVogue
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th... Read more »
Bestseller #17
Tao Te Ching
A New English Version
By Stephen Mitchell & Lao Tzu
Narrated by: Stephen Mitchell
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
In 81 brief chapters, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Taoāthe basic principle of the universe.
Stephen Mitchell's bestselling version has been...
Read more »Bestseller #18
The Odyssey
Penguin Audio Classics
By Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
The OdysseyĀ is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition ofĀ The OdysseyĀ that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... Read more »
Bestseller #19
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings
Poems
By Joy Harjo
Narrated by: Joy Harjo
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
A 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...
Read more »Bestseller #20
Fierce Fairytales
Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
By Nikita Gill
Narrated by: Nikita Gill
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Fierce Fairytales
“When I say listening to this was transcendent, know that I don't say such things lightly. The audiobook is narrated by the author herself, and it further reminded me that poetry is meant to be read aloud, to be listened to. To be spoken by the writers and consumed in the exact way they want you to. Reading poetry in your own voice, with your own inflections and stresses, taking those parts that mean the most to you, is important, and a good way to read and learn poetry, but there is something special about listening to the author, the creator of that little world, read it. I listened to it alone in my living room, windows closed, lying on my couch in the dark. I tried listening to it in a cafe but I realized quickly that I needed silence and complete focus to get the full experience. It just so happened that some days later, the wifi went out, and I really only had this book downloaded on my phone. It was perfect. I got into a comfortable position, found the perfect volume, closed my eyes, and was transported to a universe of stars and magic and fairytale women.”
Thea, lala books
Bestseller #21
Make Me Rain
Poems & Prose
By Nikki Giovanni
Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Make Me Rain
“I would not call myself a poetry reader, but there is something about Nikki Giovanniās poetry that speaks to me so deeply. Sentimental and comforting, Make Me Rain covers a wide range of topics, from quilts and rising bread to the social change we so desperately need in our world. Giovanniās wisdom and understanding once again prove why she is such a poetic powerhouse and leave the reader wanting to explore her past work again, too.”
Beth Seufer Buss, Bookmarks
Bestseller #22
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
Poetry
By Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes
How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
“Kingsolver writes poetry that is both accessible and profound. This is the kind of collection youāll loan out to a friend or relative and never get back. You should probably go ahead and buy two or three all at once!”
Pat Cawiezell, Magic City Books
Bestseller #23
Many Miles
Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver
By Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 41 minutes
Following the success ofĀ At Blackwater Pond, this second audio reccording from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four new, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetryāfrom her classic nature writing to her verses for her... Read more »
Bestseller #24
And Yet
Poems
By Kate Baer
Narrated by: Kate Baer
Length: 54 minutes
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman.
Kate Baer shot into the literary stratosphere with the publication of her debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, which became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
Kateās second full-length book of traditional poetry, And Yet,...
Read more »Bestseller #25
God I Feel Modern Tonight
Poems from a Gal About Town
By Catherine Cohen
Narrated by: Catherine Cohen
Length: 39 minutes
Poems of heartbreak and sex, self-care and self-critique, urban adventures and love on the road from the millennial quarantine queen and comedy sensation.
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in L.A. we got naked and swam in the ocean
we ate cured meats and carrots
& sat in the back of a red pickup truck
like we were in a film where two old friends fight
& wrestle their... Read more »
Bestseller #26
1919
By Eve L. Ewing
Narrated by: Eve L. Ewing
Length: 1 hour 5 minutes
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nationās Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this eventāwhich lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuriesāthrough poems recounting the... Read more »
Bestseller #27
Don't Call Us Dead
Poems
By Danez Smith
Narrated by: Danez Smith
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place... Read more »
Bestseller #28
The Death of Sitting Bear
New and Selected Poems
By N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
The Death of Sitting Bear
“From Pulitzer Prize-winning author (House Made of Dawn in 1969), Oklahoma Centennial State Poet Laureate, and acclaimed artist N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) comes a new collection of more than 100 new and selected poems in The Death of Sitting Bear. Presented in three parts, some poems are quick tributes to natural phenomenon but made no less impactful for their brevity. Simple moments ā the sound of fry bread sizzling in childhood ā are exquisitely detailed. Complex questions about the nature of animals and humans and their meanings and representations to each other are explored. God, as an entity, as a spirit, as in nature, is called upon. Other pieces are long form poetic narratives, such as Part II, A Century of Impressions, which detail an era in āone hundred haiku/elemental exercise/to nourish the mind.ā The titular poem, The Death of Sitting Bear, gives voice to the great man himself in stanzas of poetic prose, detailing Sitting Bullās life and death as an elite Kaitsenko warrior. Firmly steeped in Kiowa heritage and indigenous oral storytelling traditions, Momaday breathes in the spirit of the Southwest and breathes out masterful imagery onto the page. The poems beg to be read aloud in order to savor the taste of the language, each word carefully chosen to evoke shape, sound, sight, feeling, and history with the weight of its intention: āa blackbird holds still/in the center of sight/and I cannot/look away."”
BrocheAroe, River Dog Book Co.
Bestseller #29
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
By Lana Del Rey
Narrated by: Lana Del Rey
Length: 38 minutes
The New York Times bestselling debut book of poetry from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.
āViolet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each... Read more »
Bestseller #30
Waley's Chinese Poetry
Including: The Poet Li Po, A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, More Translations from the Chinese and Arthur Waley (Poems from the Chinese)
By Arthur Waley
Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
There have been many translators of Chinese literature and poetry over time, but Arthur Waley stands out as one of the best known and most loved. This is perhaps because he had an attribute that most others lacked, which is his poetic abilities. Waley was as much a poet himself as a translator, and while his scholarly erudition was matched by a...
Read more »Bestseller #31
"The Drunken Boat" and Other Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
English Edition
By Arthur Rimbaud
Narrated by: Jason Rosette
Length: 1 hour 16 minutes
"The Drunken Boat" ("Le Bateau ivre") is a 100-line verse-poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. It centers around the delirious visions of the eponymous boat, swamped and lost at sea, and is...
Read more »Bestseller #32
The Tradition
By Jericho Brown
Narrated by: Jericho Brown
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award
Jericho Brown's daring book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human:... Read more »
Bestseller #33
Richard Burton reads the poetry of Thomas Hardy - Abridged
By Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Richard Burton
Length: 39 minutes
The multi-award winning actor reads the finest work of Thomas Hardy Read more »
Bestseller #34
A Little History of Poetry
The Little Histories Series
By John Carey
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always workāover the...
Read more »Bestseller #35
Robert Burns
a collection of poems and songs
By Robert Burns
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 1 minute
Robert Burns like you've never heard him before.
Set within modern and vivid soundscapes, this collection gives Burns' texts new resonance. From the soullessness of a call-centre through the simple joy of a babyās nursery to the horror of the battlefields and all the way into space, this is a visceral roller-coaster through the poems and songs of...
Read more »Bestseller #36
Life on Mars
Poems
By Tracy K. Smith
Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the... Read more »
Bestseller #37
Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings
Deluxe Edition
By Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes
A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings
Mary OliverāsĀ Dog SongsĀ is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poetās relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliverās poems begin in... Read more »
Bestseller #38
No Matter the Wreckage
By Sarah Kay
Narrated by: Sarah Kay
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Following the success of her breakout poem, "B,"Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. No Matter the Wreckage presents listeners with new and beloved poetry that showcases Kay's talent for celebrating family, love, travel, and unlikely romance between inanimate objects ("The... Read more »
Bestseller #39
The Rose That Blooms in the Night
By Allie Michelle
Narrated by: Allie Michelle
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
The Rose That Blooms in the Night is a collection of poems from spoken word poet, yoga instructor, podcaster, and Instagram influencer Allie Michelle. The collection is meant to be a mirror reflecting the love inside of those who read it. It tells the tale of transformational cycles we experience throughout our lives. Falling in and out of love.... Read more »
Bestseller #40
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Poems
By Warsan Shire
Narrated by: Warsan Shire
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on BeyoncĆ©ās Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire
āThe beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.āāRoxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
āShire is the real thingāfresh, cutting, indisputably... Read more »
Bestseller #41
The Essential T.S. Eliot
By T.S. Eliot
Narrated by: T.S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Trethewey, Meghan O'Rourke, Natalie Diaz, Frank Bidart, Joy Harjo, Rosanna Warren, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Tracy K. Smith, Nicole Sealey, Jorie Graham, Kevin Young, Louise Gluck, Eileen Myles, Carol Muske-Dukes, Campbell McGrath & Robert Hass
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
A selection of the most significant and enduring poems from one of the twentieth centuryās major writers, chosen and introduced by Vijay Seshadri, performed by T.S. Eliot, Vijay Seshadri, Daniel Halpern, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Trethewey, Meghan O'Rourke, Natalie Diaz, Frank Bidart,Ā Joy Harjo, Rosanna Warren, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Tracy K. Smith,...
Read more »Bestseller #42
Nature Poem
By Tommy Pico
Narrated by: Tommy Pico
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.
Nature Poem follows Teebsāa young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poetāwho can't bring himself to write a... Read more »
Bestseller #43
Postcolonial Love Poem
Poems
By Natalie Diaz
Narrated by: Natalie Diaz
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes
Postcolonial Love Poem
“Pulitzer Prize-winning Postcolonial Love Poem will make you want Natalie Diaz to write a love poem about you. Here, she writes sensual lesbian poems and warm platonic ones, poems about water and basketball and things lost in translation. Her elegant poetry begs to be studiedāadd this stunner from a Mexican Mojave poet to your shelf, and eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.”
Mary, Raven Book Store
Bestseller #44
If They Come for Us
Poems
By Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
If They Come for Us
“Raw, but not unpolished.Ā Dripping with sadness and honey.Ā Rage beyond anger, a lesson in history and violence.Ā A comprehensible example of otherness in America for those who havenāt experienced it; for those who donāt know theyāre perpetuating it.Ā An honest portrayal of a life shaped by governmentsā omissions, of the lies of the self and others, and of waking to the daylight, the promise held in sunshine, and in finding oneās own voice, own words, own way of telling oneās own story.”
BrocheAroe, River Dog Book Co.
Bestseller #45
Space Struck
By Paige Lewis
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 50 minutes
Space Struck
“Tremulous with star-pulsed stanzas as patiently alchemical as they are spontaneously acrobatic. . . [Lewis is] one of the most delightful, bewitching, and thoughtful voices I have ever encountered.”
Benjamin, Harvard Book Store
Bestseller #46
The Night Before Christmas
The Classic Edition
By Clement C. Moore
Narrated by: Jeff Bridges
Length: 4 minutes
The Night Before ChristmasĀ is an enchanting Christmas story that has brought Santa Claus to life for generations. Celebrate the holiday season with this #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling edition of the classic poem read by Jeff Bridges.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouseĀ
Carry on...
Read more »Bestseller #47
The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons
By T. S. Eliot
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons's perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of... Read more »
Bestseller #48
Autobiography of Red
Vintage Contemporaries
By Anne Carson
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 3 hours 55 minutes
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile,... Read more »
Bestseller #49
The Death of King Arthur
A New Verse Translation
By Simon Armitage
Narrated by: Bill Wallis
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, or The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes this magisterial new presentation of the Arthurian tale,...
Read more »Bestseller #50
An American Sunrise
Poems
By Joy Harjo
Narrated by: Joy Harjo
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes
A 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...
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