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  By Fire

  Rhonda Slota

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  "With meticulous detail and plainspoken language, Rhonda Harris Slota unveils the story of a family held hostage by religious extremism when its beloved father falls victim to hallucinations and paranoia. In adulthood, the daughter sets out to make peace with her father and through that process, constructs a covenant of her own, one of compassion and forgiveness." 
  ~ Paula Amen-Judah, author of Añoranza 
  "Rhonda Harris Slota’s writing is so fine, so precise, the way it includes the flowers, the laundry, the secrets, that I devoured her story. Incandescent poetry that shimmers as it remembers and reveals." 
  ~ Lauren Coodley, author of Lost Napa Valley 
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  Set in rural, southern Indiana in the 50’s-70’s, these poems tell the story of a complex family dynamic. This debut collection blends Bible images, authentic dialogue and powerful natural forces to relay the effects of family trauma and mental illness. 
  The daughter often questions her own sanity as she watches her fundamentalist father struggle with internal demons and the illusion that he is the prophet, Elijah. In this patriarchal world, the women hold together the seams of life’s tapestry through perseverance, inner wisdom and love. 
  As time passes and the father plunges deep into his fears and delusions, his young daughter learns to forge her own pathway through the maze of duality: dark and light, fear and joy. This finally leads her to reconciliation and acceptance through spiritual surrender.

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  The Moon

  James Russell Lowell

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Moon by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009.

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  Tears of Rage

  Doris Baizley

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  Three young women share an apartment in New York during the summers of 1967 and 1968. But as the Vietnam War begins to exact its toll on their generation, they must decide whether to stand for their country or their loved ones.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, David Birney, Beth Broderick, Anthony Edwards, Megan Gallagher, Peter Gregory, Patricia Sill and Wendell Sweda.Directed by Valerie Landsburg. Recorded before a live audience in November, 1992.

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  Cymbeline

  William Shakespeare

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  Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless gentleman. The King banishes Posthumus, who goes to Rome, where he falls prey to the machinations of Iachimo, who tries to convince him that Imogen will be unfaithful. Meanwhile, the Queen (Imogen's stepmother) plots against her stepdaughter by trying to plan a match between Imogen and her worthless son Cloten. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast: 
  Arviragus: om123Attendant and First Gaoler: Bill MosleyBelarius: Algy PugCaius Lucius: Mark F. SmithCloten: mbCornelius: Amy GramourCymbeline: Bruce PirieFirst British Captain and Messenger: Elizabeth KlettFirst Brother: John FrickerFirst Gentleman and First Senator: Algy PugFirst Lady: rashadaFirst Lord: rfFirst Tribune and Roman Captain: Bill MosleyFrenchman and Soothsayer: Timothy FergusonGuiderius: Denny SayersIachimo: John FrickerImogen: Elizabeth KlettJupiter: Elizabeth KlettMother: SweetlilbirdyPhilario: RakenPisanio: Matthew ReecePosthumus Leonatus: David GoldfarbQueen: Arielle LipshawSecond British Captain, Second Gentleman, and Second Senator: John FrickerSecond Brother, Second Lord, and Second Gaoler: Arielle LipshawSicilius Leonatus: Jason BortlesNarrator: David LawrenceAudio edited by: mb

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 18

  Edmund Spenser, Dante Gabriel...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Edmund Spenser and Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as themes on The Female Poet, The Wind & Rain, Evenings and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 18 
  Edmund Spenser – An Introduction 
  Sonnet – One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser 
  Shepherd’s Calendar. IV – April by Edmund Spenser 
  The Poetry of Evenings 
  The Evening Darkens Over by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot 
  A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge 
  A Summer Evening Courtyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershireby by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  The Red Sunsets by Mathilde Blind 
  Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell 
  Sunset by HP Lovecraft 
  How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  The Female Poet. An Introduction – Volume 5 
  Winter, My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti  
  Sonnet LXXI by Charlotte Smith  
  Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale  
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan  
  On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley  
  A World Worth Living In by Ella Wheeler Wilcox  
  Sonnet XIV by Mary Wroth  
  Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Introduction 
  On Refusal of Aid Between Nations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Sacrament Hymn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Troy Town by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Willow Wood - Sonnet II by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Willow Wood – Sonnet IV by Dante Gabriel Rossetti  
  The Poetry of Wind and Rain - An Introduction 
  Sudden Shower by John Clare  
  There Came A Wind Like a Bugle by Emily Dickinson 
  The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore 
  The Storm by George Herbert 
  Rainy Night by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  Victorian Poetry – An Introduction 
  The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  A Match by Algernon Swinburne  
  Maternity by Alice Meynell  
  Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti  
  The Toys by Coventry Patmore 
  The Message of the March Wind by William Morris  
  Vita Lampada by Henry Newbolt

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  The Taxidermist's Daughter (NHB...

  Kate Mosse

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  1912. In an isolated house on the Sussex salt marshes, Connie Gifford lives with her father. Robbed of her childhood memories by a mysterious accident, she is haunted by fitful glimpses of her past – whilst her father has become a broken man, taking refuge in the bottle, since the closure of his once-legendary Museum of Avian Taxidermy.
  A strange woman has been seen in the graveyard – and a few miles away, two patients have, inexplicably, disappeared from the local asylum. As a major storm hits the coastline, old wounds are about to be opened as one woman, intent on revenge, attempts to liberate another from the horrifying crimes of the past.
  The Taxidermist's Daughter is a thrilling Gothic story of violence, retribution and justice, adapted for the stage by Kate Mosse from her own internationally best-selling novel, and first performed at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2022, directed by Róisín McBrinn.
  'A superb, atmospheric thriller, its Gothic overtones commanding attention' Daily Mail on Kate Mosse's novel

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