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  Little Women - Hollywood Stage

  Hollywood Stage Productions

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  Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades.  When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course.  Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Little Women starring June Allyson & Peter Lawford.

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  Between Riverside and Crazy

  Stephen Adly Guirgis

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  After his wife’s death, retired cop Walter ‘Pops’ Washington has made a home for his ex-felon son in his sprawling, rent-controlled, Riverside Drive apartment. Will a long-simmering feud with the NYPD cause him to lose his home and the family he’s built there? The play was the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. 
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring (in alphabetical order): 
  Elisa Bocanegra as Church Lady; John Cothran as Pops;Seamus Dever as Lieutenant Carrow; James Martinez as Oswaldo;Ana Ortiz as Lulu; Larry Powell as Junior;and Emily Swallow as Detective Audrey O’Connor. 
  Directed by Diane Rodriguez and recorded before an audience at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in November 2017.

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  The Metaphysical Poets

  Various Authors

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  The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century. In this collection read by Sir Cedric Harwicke, Robert Newton and David Moore are poems by John Donne, Robert Southwell, Richard Crawshaw, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― Death - 12...

  Alfred Tennyson, Rainer Maria...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Death - An Introduction 
  2 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne 
  3 - Death by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  4 - Elegy Before Death by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  5 - The Poet to Death by Sarojini Naidu 
  6 - After Death by Fanny Parnell 
  7 - Death by John Clare 
  8 - Go Down Death by James Weldon Johnson 
  9 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  10 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 
  11 - I Would Fain Die a Dry Death by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  12 - A Death Bed by Rudyard Kipling 
  13 - The Death of the First Born by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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  O Positive - Poetry

  Joe Dunthorne

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  O Positive is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry from Joe Dunthorne, and it has all the appeal of his widely acclaimed fiction.Adopting a sunny, genial tone, Dunthorne lures the listener to darker places, exploring death and dread, failure and regret — the 'lounge of our suffering'. Often, he catches us off-guard: a 'whiplash' effect where poems shift from laughter to slaughter in a moment. Impertinent owls, an immersive theatre troupe, ancient men from the Great War and idiot balloonists — such characters dramatise our human fancies and foibles, joining the protagonist in scenarios both humorously bizarre and all too familiar.These performances serve to probe and unpeel the layers of the self — all the way down to the raw.

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  Baltimore Sons - Poems

  Dean Bartoli Smith

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  Frank, unsparing, often violent and disturbing, these poems speak in the voice of a young man trying to navigate the city he loves as he lives in the long shadow of its decline with a sense of grace and hope. With the city of Baltimore as his backdrop, accomplished poet, author, and editor Dean Bartoli Smith offers a wrenching examination of our troubled attachments to place and the deepest wounds of the American psyche. 
  In Baltimore Sons, the city rises inside the breath of memories that are the history of a place. In Smith’s terse language, Baltimore is the heart of the nation, containing all the hopes and wrecked dreams, drawing them along the persistent presence of our tragic bonding with drugs, guns and violence. Walking the aisles of an army surplus store, finding a loaded revolver inside an old shoebox, sitting alone in a diner with a hot roast beef sandwich, these are the markers of the common experience of men growing up in cities where, even with muted imaginations, make the major points in the nervous system of this country. There is that centrality that Baltimoreans know as the Baltimore attitude. Smith breathes the complex dust of the language of a border town, one whose southern heritage was made into twentieth century monuments for the Confederacy. The poems are given a deftness in bones that sing songs of the commonality of loss in a great city, a loss that the poet carves alongside a faith in the idea that it could still become a haven for dreamers of hope and change, a resurrection with an indelible humor. Baltimore Sons is the vision of a just life rising in the consciousness of a believer whose hope is rooted in what is real. 
  Afaa M. Weaver, author of Spirit Boxing

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