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  Collected Plays Two

  Alfian Sa'at

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  Alfian Sa’at’s The Asian Boys Trilogy is a fascinating, insightful tour through the lives and loves of the gay community in Singapore. In the campy and carnivalesque Dreamplay, history is turned upside-down as a goddess travels through time to ‘save gay men from themselves’. In Landmarks, geography takes centrestage, as eight short plays explore the spaces that have been claimed, colonised, and trespassed by those at the margins of the mainstream. In Happy Endings, the playwright’s adaptation of the novel Peculiar Chris evolves into a meditation on the relationship between life and literature. With clear-eyed compassion and eloquent outrage, this collection of plays charts the coming-of-age of a community finding its voice.

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  Works and Days

  Hesiod

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  Works and Days by Hesiod is a timeless piece of ancient Greek literature that blends moral instruction, practical guidance, and mythological storytelling into a deeply reflective poetic work. Written in the 8th century BCE, this didactic poem offers insight into the values, struggles, and daily realities of early agrarian society, while delivering enduring lessons on justice, labor, and human conduct.
  
  Addressed to Hesiod's brother Perses, the poem unfolds as both a personal admonition and a universal guide for living a virtuous and productive life. Through a combination of advice and allegory, Hesiod emphasizes the dignity of honest work, the importance of fairness, and the consequences of idleness and greed. His words reflect a worldview in which human effort, guided by moral integrity, is essential to survival and prosperity.
  
  Interwoven with practical farming instructions and seasonal guidance, Works and Days also presents powerful myths, including the tale of Prometheus and Pandora, which explore the origins of human suffering and the necessity of toil. These stories serve not only as cultural touchstones but also as moral frameworks that reinforce the poem's central themes.
  
  Hesiod's voice is both personal and authoritative, offering wisdom that transcends time. His reflections on justice, hardship, and perseverance continue to resonate with readers across generations. Works and Days stands as a foundational text that bridges mythology and everyday life, inviting readers to reflect on the value of discipline, the rhythms of nature, and the enduring pursuit of a just and meaningful existence.

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  Primitive Beauty: Author's...

  J.S. Nathaniel

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  Primitive Beauty: Author's Sketchbook 
  Performed by Avery Sandoval & J.S. Nathaniel  ·  10 hrs 15 min  ·  Dual narration 
  Contemplative · Intimate · Gothic 
   
  His mother kept journals her whole life. 
  She never showed them to anyone. 
  She never finished them. 
  She died. 
  He opened them. 
   
  What J.S. Nathaniel found wasn't a manuscript. It was a life mid-sentence; raw hope written in the dark, dreams deferred like letters with no address, beauty pressed so close to pain you can't tell where one ends and the other begins. He didn't clean it up. He didn't finish what she started. He made something else: a sketchbook. An act of witness. Ten hours of voices moving through what was never meant to be heard. 
   
  Patsy Cline plays on Spotify three times without being summoned. 
  Kitchens flicker. Ottawa shores freeze and groan. 
  The mold wins. The middle child sees everything. 
  The white picket fence yellows at the edges of a suburban dream. 
   
  Performed by Avery Sandoval and J.S. Nathaniel across more than ten uninterrupted hours, this dual-narration recording doesn't perform the work; it inhabits it. Poems spoken without urgency. Gothic fragments left deliberately open. Journal entries delivered in the rhythm of thought, not conclusion. Two voices in the same interior dark, arriving at nothing except presence. There is no plot. There is no resolution. There is only the moment before a feeling gets explained; and the rare company of someone willing to stay there with you. 
   
  For listeners who found themselves in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Maggie Nelson's Bluets, or Ross Gay's Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude; and wanted it to go on longer than it did.

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  How News Travels - POEMS

  Judy Katz

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  This is a debut collection of poetry read by the author. 
  The specific beauties of the poems in Judy Katz’s How News Travels have to do with their accounts of actual human living—among family, among friends, in the real world, with its griefs and losses and growth, its immersions in time, hour by hour, day by day, its immersions in consciousness. The other beauty here, the perpetual beauty, is the illumination—the afterglow, the underglow, the aurora—with which the poet cradles and surrounds her world. A clarifying, eloquent distillation of the truth of our experience, and a wonderful book.  
  — Vijay Seshadri  
  By exploring presence and absence and presence in absence, Judy Katz creates quietly revelatory elegies and odes for the shifting relationships of mid-life: the death of a mother, the independence of grown children, the intimacy of romance and trust between husband and wife. These poems feel both inevitable and surprising, as they invite us into the passage of time. “There is a trail I can follow–– / each of us leaves it, / our light impress…” she writes, and we are transformed by her attention to detail, fresh imagery, and wonder. This is a collection to savor, for “who can sleep / when it keeps arriving / over and over / the world, the world.”  
  — Ellen Bass 
  The voice is so alive, often so playful—and again and again, you will find yourself in a dialogue with the unknowable....How News Travels is a stunning book.  
  — D. Nurkse 
  For more information about Judy Katz's poetry or How News Travels, please visit https://www.judykatzpoetry.com/

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  Sonnets II

  Drew Bowen

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  A collection of poems for self-love, healing, and restoring the soul.

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  170 Chinese Poems

  Arthur Waley

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  A selection of the very best of Chinese poetry over the course of a thousand years, from 100 years before Christ was born up of the middle ages. Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry are still the benchmark by which such translations are held, nearly two hundred years after he introduced the west to the wonder of classical Chinese poetry.Includes Waley's interpretations of poems originally by Altun, Fu Hsüan, Ch‘U Yüan, Ch’ēn Tzŭ-Ang, Ch’ēng-Kung Sui, Ch’ien Wēn-Ti, Ch’in Chia, Ch’ü Yüan, Chan Fang-Shēng, Chang Tsai, Chi K’ang, Hsieh T’iao, Hsü Ling, Li Fu-Jēn, Li Po, Liu Hsün’s Wife, Lu Yu, Lu Yün, Miu Hsi, Ou-Yang Hsiu, Pao Chao, Po Chü-I, Po Hsing-Chien, Su Tung-P’o, Sung Yü, T’ao Ch’ien, Tao-Yün, Ts’ao Chih, Ts’ao Sung, Tsang Chih, Tso Ssŭ, Tzŭ-Yeh, Wang Chi, Wang Chien, Wang Wei, Wei Wēn-Ti, Wu-Ti, Yüan Chen, Yüan Chieh, &Yüan-Ti

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