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  Asbestos Heights

  David McGimpsey

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  Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
   
  If you tore off the tops of canola --yellow canola flowers -- would youjump in a tub of canola margarinejust to make the best of despair?
   
  Implored by concerned readers to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, David McGimpsey has composed a sequence of canonical note­books on all things 'poetic' and 'poetical.' Birds! Flowers! History! Sad leaders! The word 'aubade'! They're all here, in a serial, State Fair-bound collection of lyrics set in the working­-class belvedere of Asbestos Heights.
   
  Among the refreshing lemon-­lime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to 'Bootylicious,' Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to �*nd his boldest collection. Imagine Petrarch in a Tweet war about where to buy a good pair of dad jeans. Imagine Yeats but with a lot fewer swans. Imagine a poet who was told long ago that nothing good ever comes out of a place like Asbestos Heights.
   
  'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetry­wise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.'-- Michael Robbins
   
  'McGimpsey’s book is a masterful display of formal unity ... The work addresses the devalued currency of the overeducated, but underemployed, poet of art-culture, juxtaposing this experience with the esteemed currency of the undereducated, but overemployed, star of pop-culture ... It is also a book of significant pathos and submerged emotion.'– QWF A.M. Klein Poetry Prize jury citation

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  The Prophet

  Kahlil Gibran

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  "Speaks to the troubled and uncertain men and women of our age about fundamental things - those which are, or should be, a part of every human life" - The New York Times 
  One of the beloved classics of popular spirituality, Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet is a groundbreaking non-denominational collection of spiritual poetic aphorisms and essays known and loved throughout the world since its publication in 1923. This edition is read by award winning producer-narrator Jason Rosette, with sound design by Gone Marshall. 
  Standing alongside Shakespeare and Lao Tzu, 'The Prophet' has been translated into more than one hundred languages, making it one of the most translated books in history. By 2012, it had sold more than nine million copies in its American edition alone. 
  The Prophet is divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such perennial topics as love, marriage, children, giving, friendship, and more.

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  Living by Troubled Waters

  Roy McFarlane

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  Living by Troubled Waters is the third poetry collection by Roy McFarlane – an extraordinary, uncompromising book exploring slavery, colonialism, and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved. In his close examination of the horror of racialised violence, McFarlane examines how the strong currents of the past and present flow side by side. His poems ask us to think about the Black Mediterranean of today as much as we do about the Windrush scandal and the aftershocks of trans-Atlantic slavery, where Black people are still imprisoned, enslaved and drowned as they flee persecution and poverty.
  Living by Troubled Waters is innovative, formally experimental and far ranging in scope; erasure & inclusion (to make known) poems interweave and speak to the wider body of the collection. In his use of archival documents as a space for activism and linguistic intervention, McFarlane writes back into history, reclaiming voices and reshaping narratives. His poems also draw strength from themes of place and displacement, social justice, Black motherhood, family, art - and from the power of poetry itself as a witness to troubled times.

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  William Shakespeare

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  Sir Ian McKellen, Prunella Scales, Frank Duncan and Joan Hart perform Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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  This Is Your FBI Collection 1 -...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  "This Is Your FBI" was a fact-based radio series that dramatized FBI cases from the agent's point of view. Producer/director Jerry Devine had experience with pro-law enforcement radio drama having brought us "Mr. District Attorney." Crackdowns on organized crime, and well-known criminal cases of the day were featured. Because the series shined a glorious light on the FBI and vilified criminals, it received the full endorsement of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who even appeared on the first episode. Frank Lovejoy, and later Dean Carlton, were the narrator, who profiled the action along the way. "This is Your FBI" was heard on ABC radio from 1945 until 1953, sponsored for its entire run by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. 
   
  8/2/46 The Would-Be Movie Star9/27/46 The Night of Terror1/10/47 The Souvenir Gun8/6/48 The Three-Way Frame Up8/13/48 The Remorseful Runaway8/20/48 The Wrong-Way Shakedown8/27/48 The Tell-Tale Bracelet9/3/48 The Great Deception9/17/48 The Innocent Fugitive9/24/48 The Unknown Voice10/1/48 The Phantom Mine12/21/51 Innocent Santa Claus

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  Three Sisters

  Anton Chekhov

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  A full-cast performance of Chekhov’s masterpiece starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Tessa Thompson, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm.Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long. With their father’s passing, and the ordinary grip of day-to-day life slowly suffocating them, the urge to return to the city with its rich and exciting life rises to a fever pitch. First performed in 1901, Three Sisters beautifully mixes humor and heartbreak and is a perennial favorite of actors and audiences alike.The great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov is one of the most influential figures in modern literature, whose classic works include Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard (also available from L.A. Theatre Works).An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Jennifer Westfeldt as MashaTessa Thompson as IrinaSarah Zimmerman as OlgaJon Hamm as VershininJosh Clark as Solyony and RodeJosh Cooke as KulyginDan Donohue as TuzenbachPamela Dunlap as AnfisaMarc Halsey as FedotikRebecca Mozo as NatashaRobert Pine as Chebutykin and FerapontReid Scott as AndreiTranslated by Christopher Hampton. Directed by Jenny Sullivan. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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