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  Quiet Night Think - Poems & Essays

  Gillian Sze

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  “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time,” writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition.
  		 
  During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze’s new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long poem, Quiet Night Think takes its title from a direct translation of an eighth-century Chinese poem by Li Bai, the subject of the opening essay. Sze’s memory of reading Li Bai’s poem as a child marks the beginning of an unshakable encounter with poetry. What follows is an intimate anatomization of her particular entanglement with languages and cultures.
  		 
  In her most generically diverse book yet, Sze moves between poetry and prose, mother and writer, the lyrical and the autobiographical, all the while inviting readers to meditate with her on questions of emergence and transformation: What are you trying to be? Where does a word break off? What calls to us throughout the night?

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  Sukun - New and Selected Poems

  Kazim Ali

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  Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. "Sukun" means serenity or calm, and a sukun is also a form of punctuation in Arabic orthography that denotes a pause over a consonant. This Sukun draws a generous selection from Kazim's six previous full-length collections, and includes 35 new poems. It allows us to trace Ali's passions and concerns, and take the measure of his art: the close attention to the spiritual and the visceral, and the deep language play that is both musical and plain spoken.[sample poem]The Fifth PlanetCome, early summer in the mountains, and come, strawberry moon,and carry me softly in the silver canoe on wires to the summit, where in that way of late night useless talk, the bright dark asks me, "What is the thing you are most afraid of?" and I already know which lie I will tell.There were six of us huddled there in the cold, leaning on the rockslingering in the dark where I do not like to linger, looking up at thesharp round pinnacle of light discussing what shapes we saw—rabbit,man, goddess—but that brightness for me was haunted by no thing,no shadow at all in the lumens.What am I, what am I, I kept throwing out to the hustling silence.No light comes from the moon, he's just got good positioning and I suppose that's the answer, that's what I'm most afraid of,that I'm a mirror, that I have no light of my own, that I hang in empty spacein faithful orbit around a god or fatherneither of Whom will ever see me whole. I keep squinting to try to see Jupiterwhich the newspaper said would be found near the moon but it's nowhere, they must have lied. Or like god, there is too muchreflection, headsplitting and profane, scraping up every shadow,too much light for anyone to see.

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  Ways to Say Goodbye

  Anne Kellas

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  In this poetry collection 'Ways to Say Goodbye'. Anne Kellas takes the listener through dream sequences, abstract and imagistic poems and deeply personal poems of loss. The effect is a cumulative building of a quiet world of reflective resilience as the poet tries out possible ways to do what is almost impossible – to love and to say goodbye."These poems, their accounts of the ways art, chance talk, angels, birds, memories and music can come at us with terrible and tender truths, are gifts that teach us how ‘to read the mind of clouds’." (Kevin Brophy)

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  The Iliad

  Homer Homer

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  "The Iliad" is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to the poet Homer, thought to have been composed in the 8th century BCE. The poem primarily focuses on the Trojan War and is specifically centered around the wrath of the Greek hero Achilles, whose rage is one of the epic's main themes. "The Iliad" encompasses high drama, heroic feats, and deep philosophies about honor, fate, and the human condition. It is considered one of the cornerstones of Western literature and has been translated into numerous languages over the centuries.

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  Sky wri tei ngs

  Nasser Hussain

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  Poems written only from three-letter airport codes demand a new kind of passport. Every major airport has a three-letter code from the International Air Transport Association. In perhaps history's greatest-ever feat of armchair travel, Nasser Hussain has written a collection of poetry entirely from those codes. In a dazzling aeronautic feat of constraint-based writing, SKY WRI TEI NGS explores the relationship between language and place in a global context. Watch as words jet-set across the map, leaving a poetic flight path. See letters take flight (and leave their baggage behind).

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  Can You Hear Me

  Anna Lyse Erikson

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  Before Guglielmo Marconi came along, there was no practical way to transmit telegraphic messages without wires. But when he harnessed the power of radio waves to send signals over long distances, what had once seemed impossible became a world-changing reality.  
   
  In this original L.A. Theatre Works commission, we’ll get a firsthand, intimate view of the precocious Italian inventor, and what he had to overcome in his quest to revolutionize the way we communicate. 
   
  Can You Hear Me is available as part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in April, 2024. 
   
  Directed by Rosalind Ayres 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Lucy DeVito as Degna Marconi 
  Martin Jarvis as Mr. Preece, King Edward, Captain Smith 
  Kurt Kanazawa as Alfonso Marconi, George Parkin 
  Henri Lubatti as Giuseppe Marconi, Teddy Roosevelt 
  Moira Quirk as Annie Jameson 
  Darren Richardson as George Kemp, Jack Phillips 
  André Sogliuzzo as Guglielmo Marconi and Older Marconi 
  Mark Jude Sullivan as Luigi Solari, Harold Bride, Pagent 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden 
  Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson 
  Designed by Neil Wogenson, Charles Carroll and Mark Holden, and mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. 
  Technical Advisor and Morse Code Performer: Mark Holden. 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez 
  Antique Morse Code and radio equipment provided by Ken Holden

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