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  Libre

  Skye Jackson

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  A soaring collection of poems that deftly explores the familial, personal, and societal relationships of a young Black woman trying to make her way in a fraught world. 
    
  Freedom reverberates in Skye Jackson’s breathtaking debut, Libre, with evocative poems that are heart-wrenching, haunting, sensual, and tender. This collection explores the experiences of a young Black woman in New Orleans as she navigates the pull of familial and romantic relationships, celebrating the joys of Blackness, art, and friendship. Libre also includes Jackson’s award-winning poem “can we touch your hair?” which was hand selected by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins for inclusion in the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project. 
    
  An acolyte of Sade and Stevie Nicks, Jackson muses on microaggressions, interracial relationships, and the endless intricacies of Black women’s hair as she rails against loss, random violence, and the dark expectations that society often places upon people of color. She roams each room of the heart, open and unafraid of what she might find behind every door. Through it all, this debut shines as the poetry refracts and reflects like a mirror leaving nothing unseen.

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  Dear Memphis - poems

  Rachel Edelman

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  ‘What do I know about exile?’ asks the speaker in DEAR MEMPHIS, embedded in the colliding migrations and intimate economies of the American South. Offering a direct address to the city where the poet grew up, this collection explores questions of generation amidst the displacement and belonging of a Jewish family in Memphis, Tennessee. These poems sing with their attention to the particular body and what it cannot carry, what it cannot put down. Through letters, city documents, visual art, and dialogue, Dear Memphis excavates ancestry, inheritance, and the ecological possibility of imagining a future.

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  Born in the USA - Exploring...

  Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in New England.  This corner of America where the first Europeans began to push the indigenous culture back from its home is a grid of small States that have been home to some of the greatest poets ever born anywhere, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helen Hunt Jackson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Kathy Lee Bates.

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the many comedies written by William Shakespeare. It was written around 1595 and first published in Shakespeare's first quarto in 1600. The exact reason for why this play was produced has been lost to time; some historians theorize that it could have been written for an aristocratic wedding, or for Queen Elizabeth I to celebrate the feast of St. John.
  The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, planning the celebration of their marriage. During their visit to Athens four guests - Demetrius, Lysander, Helena, and Hermia - are trying to find their own spouses and to follow each other into the woods. Also entering the woods are six actors practicing a play for the duke and his new wife. Unbeknownst to all, they have also entered the realm of the fairy kingdom, ruled by King Oberon and Queen Titania and inhabited by the mischievous Puck.

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  Alaa The Struggle Between Good...

  Ali Bouziane

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Alaa was a boy who grew up in the countryside. He never knew a mother’s warmth since he was an infant, but he was raised by a noble and wise man who made him happy despite their poverty. However, this man grew old and became bedridden, forcing the boy and his brothers to carry the burdens of life at an early age. 
  In this story, Alaa did not turn to a magic lamp that grants wishes or a wondrous flying carpet. Instead, he turned to something better: the Gracious Lord and a sincere heart. For if a lamp or a carpet can be stolen, a beautiful heart can never be taken away. 
  In this part of the novel, we focused on the hero drawing strength from reason and wisdom. This is not because fantasy or wonders are bad, but because we wanted to achieve the greatest intellectual and moral benefit that can inspire us in real life. As Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said: "How much people need a truthful storyteller." 
  Everyone loves entertainment and may tire of direct education, so what if we scattered lessons between the lines of suspense? 
  I wrote this story a few years ago while I was herding sheep, and guidance was close to my heart. So, I freed my pen to draw something that would make me happy. In the end, I was amazed by the result and wanted to share this work, which my family and friends admired. If you want to enter my world and learn more about Alaa, please share your opinion with me—it is very important and means a lot to me.

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  The Journey of Life

  William Cullen Bryant

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Journey of Life by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 23, 2012.William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.  His poetry has been described as being "of a thoughtful, meditative character, and makes but slight appeal to the mass of readers." ( Summary by Wikipedia )

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