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  The Paris Letter

  Jon Robin Baitz

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  The latest work from one of America’s most important young playwrights and creator of the current hit TV series, “Brothers and Sisters”.   Financial powerhouse Sandy Sonnenberg finds his personal and professional life threatened by unraveling secrets from his past. A tragic game of financial and moral betrayal plays out over four decades, with an exacting price - family, friends, love and marriage. Starring members of the original Off-Broadway production.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring Neil Patrick Harris alongside John Glover, Josh Radnor, Ron Rifkin and Patricia Wettig.

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  Trace - Poems

  Eric Pankey

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  From the award-winning poet behind Owl of Minerva, a collection of poems exploring themes of faith, memory, and meaning.His arresting ninth collection of poems, Eric Pankey’s Trace locates itself at a threshold between faith and doubt—between the visible and the invisible, the say-able and the ineffable, the physical and the metaphysical. Also a map of the poet’s journey into a deep depression, these poems confront one man’s struggle to overcome depression’s smothering weight and presence. And with remarkable clarity and complexity, Trace charts the poet’s attempt to be inspired, to breathe again, to give breath and life to words. Ever solemn, ever existential, Pankey’s poems find us at our most vulnerable, the moment when we as humans—believers and nonbelievers alike—must ultimately pause to question the uncertain fate of our souls. “Pankey’s language is beautiful and spare and he constantly surprises with profound lines. Pankey’s built a name for himself, and considering the quality of the poems in this collection, it’s no surprise.”—C. L. Bledsoe, Coal Hill Review  “Pankey’s ninth collection follows the poet into the hushed “gray dawn” of depression as he searches, often in vain, for God, and for faith in nature and himself…. It’s hard to deny the conflict that Pankey explores honestly and powerfully in these new poems.”—Publishers Weekly

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  The Poetry of Cats

  William Wordsworth, Rainer Maria...

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  The cat. Independent when it wants and making us dependent on its whims when it deems.  Cats are first thought of as being domesticated in the Near East in about 7500 BC.  A few thousand years later in Ancient Egypt they are worshipped as gods.  From a domestic cat’s point of view this is pretty much the life they want and that some cats lead right now.    
    
  Their larger cousins whether in forest, savannah, mountains or desert were fated for their speed, strength, beauty, feline powers and prowess.  They now live in a finely balanced world between freedom and declining numbers as their habitats are destroyed or taken from them.  
   
  Across the centuries poets have written verse that captures all manner of thoughts on our complex relationship with all cats, though mainly the humble moggy, on whose whims we slave over, eager for a look of recognition, the nod of thanks or the purr of gratitude.   
  1 - The Poetry of Cats  - An Introduction 
  2 - The Cat and the Moon by William Butler Yeats 
  3 - The Cat by Charles Baudelaire 
  4 - The Lions by Joseph Mary Plunkett 
  5 - The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear 
  6 - An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love by Thomas Flatman 
  7 - To My Cat by Rosamund Marriott Watson 
  8 - Verses on a Cat by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  9 - Milk For the Cat by Harold Munro 
  10 - The Cats Have Come To Tea by Kate Greenaway 
  11 - St Jerome's Cat by Anonymous 
  12 - The Lazy Pussy by Palmer Cox 
  13 - Sad Memories by Charles Calverly 
  14 - Mrs Reynold's Cat by John Keats 
  15 - Mujer by William Carlos Williams 
  16 - Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  17 - The Cats Will Know by Cesare Pavese 
  18 - A Cat by Edward Thomas 
  19 - The Cat of the House by Ford Madox Ford 
  20 - To Winky by Amy Lowell 
  21 - The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  22 - Jaguar by Lola Ridge 
  23 - Julbilate Agno by Christopher Smart 
  24 - Little Tiger by H P Lovecraft 
  25 - The Tiger by William Blake 
  26 - Sonnet XIX - Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws by William Shakespeare 
  27 - The Lion Who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox by Rumi 
  28 - The Eagle, The Sow and the Cat by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  29 - The Vain Cat by Ambrose Bierce 
  30 - To A Cat by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  31 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field 
  32 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman 
  33 - The Old Cat and the Young Mouse by Jean De La Fontaine 
  34 - The Cat and the Old Rat by Jean de la Fontaine 
  35 - The Rat-Catcher and Cats by John Gay 
  36 - Two Little Kittens by Anonymous 
  37 - Familiarity Dangerous by William Cowper 
  38 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth 
  39 - The First Cat by Arthur Guiterman 
  40 - Had Tiberius Been a Cat by Matthew Arnold 
  41 - An Oxford Don Curses his Cat by Thomas Master 
  42 - Pangur Ban - The Scholar and His Cat by Anonymous 
  43 - Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat - Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes by Thomas Gray 
  44 - On the Death of a Cat by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  45 - Epitaph on a Pet Cat by Joachim Du Bellay 
  46 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy

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  The Indispensable Zinn - The...

  Howard Zinn

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  A “well-chosen anthology of the radical historian’s prodigious output,” from A People’s History of the United States and lesser known sources (Kirkus Reviews).   When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation’s foremost intellectual and political guides; a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York Times’s Bob Herbert, “peel[ed] back the rosy veneer of much of American history to reveal sordid realities that had remained hidden for too long.”   A collection designed to highlight Zinn’s essential writings, The Indispensable Zinn includes excerpts from Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States; his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train; his inspiring writings on the civil rights movement, and the full text of his celebrated play, Marx in Soho. Noted historian and activist Timothy Patrick McCarthy provides essential historical and biographical context for each selection.   With a foreword by Noam Chomsky and an afterword from Zinn’s former Spellman College student and longtime friend, Alice Walker, The Indispensable Zinn is both a fitting tribute to the legacy of a man whose “work changed the way millions of people saw the past,” and a powerful and accessible introduction for anyone coming to Zinn’s essential body of work for the first time (Noam Chomsky).

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  The Merchant of Venice

  William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit

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  Bassanio, a young Venetian of noble rank, wishes to woo the beautiful and wealthy heiress Portia of Belmont. Having squandered his estate, he needs 3,000 ducats to subsidize his expenditures as a suitor. Bassanio approaches his friend Antonio, a wealthy merchant of Venice who has previously and repeatedly bailed him out. This edition of 'The Merchant of Venice' is an adaptation of Shakespeare's eponymous drama, narrated in plain modern English, capturing the very essence and key elements of the original Shakespeare's work. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Mother Nature (Dickinson)

  Emily Dickinson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Mother Nature by Emily Dickinson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 3, 2013While Emily Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.Mother Nature is a wonderful poem by Dickinson about nature. (Summary by SarahParshall and Wikipedia)

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