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  Touch the Earth - Poems on The Way

  Drew Jackson

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  Gather it from memory. Let it touch the earth.In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson continues the project he began in God Speaks Through Wombs, reflecting on the Gospel of Luke through poetry. Touch the Earth picks up in chapter nine and continues through the end of Luke's Gospel. Part protest poetry, part biblical commentary, Jackson presents the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible."From the feeding of the multitude ("The best hosts always provide / take home containers”) to the resurrection of Jesus ("the belly of mother Earth / is, indeed, a womb . . . the humus of life is where we become fully human"), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance—against all hope—that's been in the gospel all along.

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  The Restoration Poets

  John Milton, John Bunyan, John...

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  In the years between 1660 and 1700 much upheaval took place in English politics.  To mirror this rising on the artistic scene were the Restoration Poets – Dryden, Milton, Bunyan, Marvell, D’Avennat, Cowley …. are but a select few from this momentous movement in our Poetical History.  Poets of courage, ambition and vigour.  With the strength of words and vision to record for history  this tumultuous phase.

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  Nan and the Lower Body

  Jessica Dickey

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  Nan takes a prestigious research position working for Dr. George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap smear. The doctor worries Nan's new husband might distract from their important work, but Nan has a secret that could upend everyone's plans for her. Includes an interview with playwright Jessica Dickey. 
   
  This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2023. 
   
  Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson; Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Shannon Cochran as Mache Papanicolaou 
  Josh Dallas as Ted Day 
  Jessica Dickey as Herself 
  Ginnifer Goodwin as Nan Day 
  Richard Schiff as Dr. George Papanicoloaou 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson  
  Prepared for audio by Mark Holden  
  Recorded, edited, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin  
  Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

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  Pride and Predjudice

  Jane Austen, Christina Calvit

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  A full-cast stage adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel.
  The dour, Mr. Darcy is anything but popular with the Bennets, especially when he fancies a member of their clan. And as Elizabeth reluctantly deals with Mr. Darcy’s advances, their romance seems destined to fail.
  Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set the standard for romantic comedies when it debuted in 1813, and it still speaks to audiences worldwide through countless adaptations.
  Includes a roundtable interview with the entire cast.
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Julia McIlvane as Elizabeth Bennet;Nick Toren as Mr. Darcy;Jane Carr as Mrs. Bennet and Lady Catherine; alongside Diane Adair, Nicholas Hormann, Chloe Dworkin, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Jill Renner, and Darren Richardson. 
  
  Adapted for the stage by Christina Calvit. Directed by Brian Kite. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.
  (P)2013 L.A. Theatre Works, All Rights Reserved

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  Heine

  Ritchie Robertson

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  Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers. His agile mind and brilliant wit expressed themselves in lyrical and satirical poetry, travel writing, fiction, and essays on literature, art, politics, philosophy and history. He was a biting satirist, and a perceptive commentator on the world around him. One of his admirers, Friedrich Nietzsche, said of him: 'he possessed that divine malice without which perfection, for me, is unimaginable.' Heine was conscious of living after two revolutions. The French Revolution had changed the world forever. Heine experienced its effects when growing up in a Düsseldorf that formed part of the Napoleonic Empire, and when spending the latter half of his life in France. The other revolution was the transformation of German philosophy in the wake of Kant: Heine explained this revolution wittily and accessibly to the general public, emphasizing its hidden political significance. One of the great ambivalences of Heine's life was his attitude to being a German Jew in the age of partial emancipation. He converted to Protestantism, but bitterly regretted this decision. In compensation, he explored the Jewish past and present in an unfinished historical novel and in many of his poems.

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  No One to Wake

  Marilyn C. O'Leary

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  In No One to Wake, Marilyn C. O’Leary shares "a bouquet of mourning" the death of her husband of 50 years. This audiobook of poetry is beyond beautiful. And one needn’t have been married for 50 years, or married at all, to feel softly wrapped in the understanding of how it feels to lose someone you love deeply. Both pain and transcendence are painted in her poems, plus the naturalness and magic of death itself: "...you took your leave breathing like a fish, swimming out into an ocean of darkness and love." She also addresses the guilty urge to look back and question whether she did enough, whether she was enough: "The recipe for my life had ingredients you didn’t like," and then acknowledges that "our relationship was whole." 
   
  And then there’s the need to go on. She recognizes the "freedom" that comes from loss; "sadness an opening...[to] find yourself unwrapped. I could do anything, be anything, go anywhere," she writes, "[but] what if it wasn’t you who kept me tethered? In this audiobook, O’Leary takes us from the dark folds of anguish where we’re sometimes drawn towards death ourselves, to the realization that "the answer to all is Life."

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