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  The Lesser Tragedy of Death

  Cristina Garcia

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  From the National Book Award-nominated author of Dreaming in Cuban, “breathtakingly beautiful” poems about her troubled, self-destructive brother (The Austin Chronicle).   “[A] brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray; with skill, unflinching honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina García tracks his marvelous, complex, and errant life…These poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother she loves. With this first book of poems, García, one of our best novelists and storytellers, proves herself to be a talented poet as well.”—Julia Alvarez, author of Saving the World   “Garcia’s spare language lucidly invokes the brother’s insistence on remaining a wreck and the speaker’s helplessness to stop him.”—The Adirondack Review

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  Moll

  John B Keane

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  Moll is a hilarious and highly successful comedy about life in an Irish country presbytery.'When a presbytery gets a new housekeeper it becomes like a country that gets a change of government, or like a family that gets a new stepmother'. Moll Kettle would work for no less than a canon for, in her own words, 'Tis hard to come back to the plain black and white when one is used to the purple'.
  John B. Keane was one of Ireland's most prolific and respected literary figures. He was born in 1928 in Listowel, County Kerry and it was here that he spent his literary career, running a pub which provided him with inspiration for his characters and ideas.
  
  His first play, 'Sive', was presented by the Listowel Drama Group and won the All-Ireland Drama Festival in 1959. It was followed by another success, 'Sharon's Grave', in 1960. 'The Field' (1965) and 'Big Maggie' (1969), are widely regarded as classics of the modern Irish stage and jewels in a crown which includes such popular hits as 'Many Young Men of Twenty', 'The Man from Clare', 'Moll', 'The Chastitute' and 'The Year of the Hiker'. His large canon of plays have been seen abroad in cities as far afield as Moscow and Los Angeles. 'Big Maggie' ran on Broadway for over two months in 1982 and 'The Field' was adapted into an Oscar-winning Hollywood film, starring Brenda Fricker and Richard Harris, in 1991.

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  Odessa - Poems

  Patricia Kirkpatrick

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  This collection is “an astonishing achievement” that renders grief and illness in “supremely lyrical, brilliantly imagined . . . poetry of the highest order” (Connie Wanek). 
   
  A grim prognosis, brain cancer, leaves the speaker in Kirkpatrick’s Odessa fighting for her life. The tumor presses against her amygdalae, the “emotional core of the self,” and central to the process of memory. 
   
  In poems endowed with this emotional charge but void of sentimentality, Kirkpatrick sets out to recreate what was lost by fashioning a dreamlike reality. Odessa, “roof of the underworld,” a refuge at once real and imagined, resembles simultaneously the Midwestern prairie and a mythical god-inhabited city. In image-packed lines bearing shades of Classical heroism, Kirkpatrick delivers a personal narrative of stunning dimension. 
   
  Winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry 
   
  Winner of the Minnesota Book Award

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  Love Thee ?

  Thomas More

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  This is the Weekly Poem for the week of November 29th, 2015. Another romantic love poem by the irish poet Thomas Moore. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

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  Fifty Shades of November - 50 of...

  A E Housman, Trumbell Stickney,...

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  The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter.  Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways.  Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done. 
   
  Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Alice Guerin Crist illuminate the month, the natural world and the human condition.  In their words our experiences are reshaped, our views are rethought and our place in the world made a little more sense of. 
   
   
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of November - An Introduction 
  2 - November by John Clare 
  3 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton 
  4 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  5 - To a Mouse by Robert Burns 
  6 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell 
  7 - The TWA Corbies by Anonymous 
  8 - Bird's Nests by Edward Thomas 
  9 - We Plough the Fields and Scatter by Mattias Claudius 
  10 - A Hymn on the Seasons (An Extract) by James Thomson 
  11 - A Shropshire Lad XXVII - Is My Team Ploughing by A E Housman 
  12 - At Day Close in November by Thomas Hardy 
  13 - A November Night by Sara Teasdale 
  14 - In November by Archibald Lampman 
  15 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
  16 - Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield 
  17 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
  18 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 
  19 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  20 - By the Hearth by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
  21 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  22 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage 
  23 - In This Fog by Daniel Sheehan 
  24 - November by Thomas Hood 
  25 - Among the Rocks by Robert Browning 
  26 - November by John Payne 
  27 - Mild the Mist Upon the Hill by Emily Bronte 
  28 - The Storm by George Herbert 
  29 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  30 - November by Amy Lowell 
  31 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  32 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville 
  33 - A Thanksgiving Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  34 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage 
  35 - November Days in Ireland by Alice Guerin Crist 
  36 - November 1806 by William Wordsworth 
  37 - A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII - The Winds Out of the West Land Blow by A E Housman 
  38 - November 1847 by Henry Alford 
  39 - Sonnet 73 - That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold by William Shakespeare 
  40 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  41 - The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain by Trumbell Stickney 
  42 - A November Note by Alfred Austin 
  43 - November by Lucy Hamilton Hooper 
  44 - November 1813 by William Wordsworth 
  45 - A Thought on Death, November 1814 by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 
  46 - On the Death of Princess Borghese, at Rome, November 1840 by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton 
  47 - Paris. November the 11th, 1918 by Mary Wedderburn Cannan 
  48 - In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Killed in Action 21st November 1917, Aged 24) 
  49 - November by John Keble 
  50 - For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon 
  51 - Rugby Chapel, November 1857 by Matthew Arnold

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  Short Poetry Collection 028

  Various

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  LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 028: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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