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  You Get So Alone at Times That...

  Charles Bukowski

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  Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions. 
  “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates 
  “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

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  A Gateway Has Opened

  Liam Blackford

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  A Gateway Has Opened is a poetry collection by Hong Kong-based poet, LIAM BLACKFORD, containing 36 missives on truth and reality, anger and rage, complexity and change, and power as manifested in people, corporations, governments, borders and cultures. The poems inhabit a chaotic and psychedelic world where water flows into the sky, nightclubs have hundreds of floors and where banks and malls publish theories on knowledge and personhood. Therein, human society is fraught with harm and violence but also euphoric with the widening horizons of possibility. The collection is notable for its strict adherence to a unique poetic form (each poem has six stanzas, each stanza with six lines, and each line with six syllables), which in its red-eyed absoluteness suggests that the poems are giving voice to an alien, an angel or a machine. Though avant-garde and philosophical, the collection is highly reflective of the poet’s place and time, in which Hong Kong is at the epicentre of epochal political and cultural change. 
  “The poems ... ‘quiver with tension’ as the speaker straddles the liminal space between dreams and the mundane.” —Ryan Fenton. “In Blackford’s verse, one is in our world, with its political and environmental anxieties, with its affluence and parallel unease.”―Andrew S. Guthrie, Proverse Prize Finalist 2013. “... what bubbles beneath the surface is the courage to find astounding beauty and inspiration amidst confounding and cruelty, and hold them both.” —Jack Mayer, Winner of the Proverse Prize 2019. “...unique explorations of poetic form.”—Philip Mead, Emeritus Professor, University of Western Australia.  “Blackford’s worlds are jarring and harsh; psychedelic yet pungent with our reality. His strict form is muscular and fascinating. Gateway seethes with energy – I loved it.”―David West, Western Australia.

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  Things To Read Before You Sleep

  Tony William Aroya

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  This book is all about the simplicity of our ability as humans to simply be...at ease. Maybe you're on your way to work. Maybe you're soaking in a hot tub-with or without the bubbles. Maybe you're driving on a road trip, or, God forbid, stuck in traffic. Or you're the running sort, headphones or earbuds taking you to another plain of existence as you traverse the miles. Or, maybe, just maybe, you're sitting in silence and letting these words take you on an out-of-body experience. In any of those cases, "Things To Read Before You Sleep" is my first foray into that challenging minefield called poetry. This book gives life and character to both inanimate objects-such as a simple shoe-and scary subjects, like darkness. The metaphysical world of dreaming, and, of course, what would any book of poetry be without addressing that age-old, soul-encapsulating emotion called...love. It may be less than an hour long, but I hope it's a listening journey that takes you wherever it is you'd like to be and leaves you changed forever. I'm currently creating artwork for all of poems in this audiobook. Believe me, it's going to be a thing of beauty. Thank you.

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  Daddy Kathryn and the...

  James Royce McGuire

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  This is a father-son coming-of-age story about a transsexual and her son.

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  The Ten Commandments In Poems

  Ron E. Hignite

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  Ronald E. Hignite - author of The Beatitudes in Poems - demonstrates in The Ten Commandments in Poems his poetic skills and provides greater understanding and meaning for God's laws for mankind. 
  Listeners will be inspired by the manner and design by which the events at Mt. Sinai are described in poetry and rhyme. This audio-book contains 12 poems, with one on each of the Ten Commandments, along with an introductory and closing poem. 
  Ronald E. Hignite was born in North Carolina and grew up in Connersville, Indiana. He returned to North Carolina with his family after high school and attended East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. There he earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. Following college, he taught English at Fork Union Military Academy in Fork Union, VA. After two years in Fork Union, he moved back to northeastern North Carolina where he spent most of his educational career in the towns of Washington, Camden, Murfreesboro, and Ahoskie. His interest in writing poetry was sparked while in college with his readings of the English poets, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. 
  ©2013 Ronald E. Hignite (P)2013 Ronald E. Hignite

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  Hamlet

  William Shakespeare

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  Hamlet by William Shakespeare is one of the most profound and influential tragedies ever written—a haunting exploration of revenge, madness, mortality, and the complexities of the human soul. Set in the royal court of Denmark, this timeless drama follows Prince Hamlet as he grapples with grief, betrayal, and a moral dilemma that will shape his destiny.
  
  The story begins with the sudden death of Hamlet's father, the King, and the swift remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude, to his uncle Claudius. When the ghost of the deceased king appears, revealing that he was murdered by Claudius, Hamlet is thrust into a storm of anguish and uncertainty. Charged with avenging his father's death, he struggles to reconcile his duty with his conscience, questioning not only the truth of the apparition but also the righteousness of revenge itself.
  
  Hamlet's internal conflict lies at the heart of the play. Intelligent, reflective, and deeply sensitive, he wrestles with existential questions about life, death, and the nature of action. His famous soliloquies—most notably the meditation on whether "to be or not to be"—reveal a mind torn between decisive action and paralyzing doubt. As he feigns madness to uncover the truth, the line between performance and reality begins to blur, leading to tragic consequences for those around him.
  
  Shakespeare surrounds Hamlet with richly drawn characters, each contributing to the unfolding tragedy. Ophelia, caught between loyalty and love, becomes a poignant symbol of innocence shattered by corruption. Polonius, Laertes, and Horatio each reflect different responses to honor and loss. Meanwhile, Claudius emerges as a complex antagonist—ambitious and calculating, yet burdened by guilt.
  
  Through poetic language and psychological depth, Hamlet examines themes of betrayal, loyalty, appearance versus reality, moral corruption, and the inevitability of death. The play delves into the fragility of human existence and the struggle to find meaning in a world marked by uncertainty and decay.
  
  Both intimate and epic, philosophical and dramatic, Hamlet continues to resonate with readers and audiences across centuries. Its exploration of conscience, identity, and the consequences of hesitation ensures its place as a cornerstone of world literature—a tragedy that confronts the darkest questions of the human condition with unmatched intensity and artistry.

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