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  The Very Best of Paul Cookson -...

  Paul Cookson

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  Listen to the very best poetry from Paul Cookson. This collection contains a wonderful range of poetry, mostly very funny, but there are thoughtful pieces too. He plays beautifully with language and has included a number of different poetic forms.

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  A Florida Sketch-Book

  Bradford Torrey

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  This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by BellonaTimes)Note: page 142 was read from Google Books as it was missing from the Gutenberg version.

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  Visiting Edna and Good for Otto...

  David Rabe

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  Two plays exploring the struggle of mental illness by the Tony Award–winning “giant of American theater” and author of Hurlyburly (Chicago Tribune).  Good for Otto, which premiered in October 2015 at the Gift Theatre in Chicago, is a “sprawling drama of mental illness” in which “Mr. Rabe digs into his subject with a depth that almost feels bottomless.” Drawing on material from Undoing Depression by psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, it explores the lives of a therapist and his many patients, all trying to navigate personal trauma (Charles Isherwood, The New York Times).  Visiting Edna, which premiered in September 2016 at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, is a drama of “deeply searing power” about the bond between mother and son. As Edna faces a short future plagued by her many illnesses—and a cancer that looms so large it becomes another character—she and her adult son struggle to communicate about their shared past as they contemplate the future (Variety).   Taken together, the plays offer a satisfying glimpse into “Rabe’s theatrical universe . . . at once vivid and mysterious, a pageant and a puzzle” of contemporary American life (John Lahr, The New Yorker).   “Many would list [Rabe] among the very greatest of living playwrights.” —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

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  Spinning (NHB Modern Plays)

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  A devastating new play about loss and families, by Deirdre Kinahan, one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights.
  What does it feel like to lose everything? To explain? What does it take to forgive the unforgivable?
  In small-town Ireland, father-of-one Conor is desperate to hold on to a life that is disintegrating before his eyes. Susan is a mother searching for reason in the darkness of her teenage daughter's killing. When they finally meet, a contemporary tragedy comes to light.
  Spinning was first performed by Fishamble: The New Play Company as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2014.

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  Leaves of Grass

  Walt Whitman

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  A seminal event in American literature, this nineteenth-century collection of poetry and essays celebrates nature and humanity’s place in it.Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent almost four decades piecing together the complete work, sharing societal ideals and epiphanies about life that still resonate with readers today.

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  Poems

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is known mainly for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural and is an acknowledged master of these genres, he thought of himself primarily as a poet. Here is a collection of over thirty of his poems including two of the best known "The Raven" and “Annabel Lee”.Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

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