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  Azul

  Rubén Darío

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  Azul is the groundbreaking work that inaugurated the Modernismo movement in Spanish-language literature and established Rubén Darío as one of the most influential poets of the late nineteenth century. First published in 1888, this luminous collection of prose and verse reshaped Hispanic letters with its musical language, refined symbolism, and bold artistic vision.
  
  Blending short stories and poems, Azul transports readers into a world of elegance, imagination, and sensory richness. Darío draws inspiration from French symbolism and Parnassian aesthetics, crafting texts filled with swans, princesses, exotic landscapes, and dreamlike settings. Yet beneath this shimmering surface lies a subtle critique of materialism and mediocrity in modern society. Through irony and delicate satire, Darío contrasts the beauty of art with the coarseness of bourgeois values.
  
  The color blue—suggestive of sky, sea, mystery, and the infinite—becomes a unifying symbol throughout the collection. It evokes transcendence, spirituality, and artistic aspiration. In Darío's hands, language itself becomes an instrument of transformation, capable of elevating the ordinary into the extraordinary. His rhythmic precision and innovative use of sound give the text a musical quality that marked a turning point in Spanish poetry.
  
  At once cosmopolitan and distinctly Latin American, Azul bridges continents and traditions. Darío infuses European influences with his own cultural sensibility, creating a voice that is both universal and rooted in the evolving identity of Spanish America. The collection captures a generation's desire for renewal—an aesthetic rebellion against rigid conventions and a search for beauty in an era of rapid change.
  
  The prose pieces in Azul reveal Darío's sharp narrative skill and keen social awareness, while the poems display lyrical grace and emotional intensity. Together, they form a cohesive artistic statement that celebrates imagination, challenges conformity, and affirms the transformative power of art.
  
  More than a literary milestone, Azul is a manifesto of creative freedom. Its innovative style and daring vision opened new possibilities for writers across the Spanish-speaking world and beyond. Over a century later, the collection continues to enchant readers with its elegance, musicality, and dreamlike atmosphere.
  
  A cornerstone of Modernismo and a timeless testament to poetic innovation, Azul remains an essential work for anyone seeking to understand the evolution of modern Hispanic literature and the enduring magic of language.

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  Wilfred Owen: The Selected Poems

  Wilfred Owen

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  'And you have fixed my life – however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.'
  
  A deeply powerful poetry collection that lays bare both the horrors and humanity of the First World War, told with unflinching honesty and profound beauty by one of the greatest war poets in history: Wildfred Owen.
  Wilfred Owen: The Selected Poems brings together the most searing and unforgettable works of the poet whose voice has come to define the tragedy of World War I. Writing from the trenches, Owen crafts poems that confront the violence, fear and tragic waste of war while elevating the humanity of those caught within it. His mastery of imagery and sound – whether in the bitter irony of 'Dulce et Decorum Est', the haunting tenderness of 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', or the bleak beauty of 'Exposure' – transforms personal and collective suffering into timeless art. This collection not only preserves the anguish of a generation lost to conflict, but also continues to speak across time about the costs of war, the fragility of life and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
  Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918) was one of the most famous English poets writing during the First World War. A second lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment, Owen endured several traumatic experiences throughout his time in service, much of which was the inspiration for his writing. Owen was killed in action at just twenty-five years old, but his poetry depicting the horrors of warfare remain widely read to this day.

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  Five Characters in Search of a...

  Mike Alfreds

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  Five insomniacs try to make it through the night. From dusk to dawn, they struggle with a crisis in their lives which they must resolve by morning. Increasingly conscious of their shortening futures and lengthening pasts, they fill their nights with distracting activities, desperate sleep techniques, evaluations of their lives, delusions, fears, panics and utter foolishness as they prepare to face the day.
  Five Characters in Search of a Good Night's Sleep was first performed by ViSiBLE Theatre Ensemble at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2022, in a production directed by Mike Alfreds. It was devised and written by Mike Alfreds with Sonja Linden and members of the company.
  ViSiBLE is a theatre company dedicated to creating performance work that throws fresh perspectives on later life and living longer. A key aspect of its identity is creating work collaboratively, drawing on the creativity and talent of Britain's huge wealth of experienced older actors.
  'A masterclass in monologue… an interesting piece of theatre that encourages you to consider the torment of insomnia' - Upper Circle
  'The writing is beautifully candid… it's refreshing to see older characters portrayed in a multi-faceted way that explores existentialism and humanity rather than stereotyping and defining them by their age' - North West End UK
  'A great example of storytelling, with five sound monologues' - London Theatre Reviews

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  Petals

  Amy Lowell

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Petals by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 27, 2011.Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Lowell was born into Brookline's prominent Lowell family, sister to astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.She never attended college because her family did not consider that proper for a woman, but she compensated with avid reading and near-obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and travelled widely, turning to poetry in 1902 after being inspired by a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe. In the post-World War II years, Lowell, like other women writers, was largely forgotten, but with the renaissance of the women's movement in the 1970s, women's studies brought her back to light. According to Heywood Broun, however, Lowell personally argued against feminism. Her poem, “Petals” is published in her collection A Dome of Many-Colored Glass (1912). (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Bob Gonzalez)

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  Fast Talking PI & Other Poems

  Selina Tusitala Marsh

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  A selection of Selina Tusitala Marsh' s most beloved poems, set to music and performed by the poet herself.
  ' She blows in like a song carried on a powerful current: a wild-haired woman, larger than life, carrying a tall carved stick. She loses things in that hair, she says; finds pens in there days after they went missing.'
  — from ' Never Piss Off a Poet' , The Guardian
  Selina Tusitala Marsh is a celebrated poet and performer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Professor and poet laureate, a Pasifika woman who has performed for queens and presidents, Selina says ' poetry is a way to tell our stories and make the invisible visible.'
  This audiobook features the poet performing thirty-six of her most powerful poems, both occasional pieces and selections from the collections Fast Talking PI, Dark Sparring and Tightrope. In ' Guys like Gaugin' and ' Kickboxing Cancer' , ' Airport Road to Apia' and ' Fast Talking PI' , and many more, Selina brings whole new worlds to life.
  All poems written and performed by Selina Tusitala Marsh; all music composed, produced and engineered by Tim Page.

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  Declaration

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

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  Nathaniel Parker Willis is also known as N. P. Willis. He was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. - Summary by Wikipedia

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