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  Food (NHB Modern Plays)

  Joel Horwood, Christopher Heimann

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  A play about celebrity chefs and the price you have to pay for ambition, from the Imaginary Body, the team behind the smash hit '100'.
  Winner of an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, 2006
  Top chef Frank Byrne has one ambition in life - to win the coveted third Michelin star for his restaurant, which will bring him the success he craves and confirm his reputation as the best. But reaching the top comes at a price...
  Set in the turbulent world of celebrity chefs, Food explores the compulsive nature of perfectionism and the sacrifices we make to realise our dreams.
  'as fast and furious as a knife at chopping-board, and fizzes with physical invention' Telegraph
  'full of wit, and pokes delicious fun at foodie culture... It broadens its scope way beyond an everyday story of celebrity chefs into a thoughtful consideration of the pitfalls and pratfalls of perfectionism' Guardian
  'brilliantly ingenious... takes the breath away' Scotsman

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  Water Whispers audio poem

  Kaitlynzq

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  Water Whispers audio poemmultiple poems designed to connectto form a story as a heart’s breathan excerpt from Water Whispers audio poem“new, unfamiliar, and yet, I knowa paintbrush, most delicate of touchalong the fabric of an instruments stringsto know you, my love”

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  The Black Experience in America...

  Various Authors

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  A collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves.Contents:Ex-slave James Bolton - United States Work Projects AdministrationDeath of Charles - by Ida B. Wells-BarnettFifty Years - by James Weldon Johnson	Personal Liberty Laws - by Marion Gleason McDougall	Reporting	- by Henry Ossian FlipperThe Ku Klux Klan - by Eyre DamerYour Negro Neighbor - by Benjamin Griffith BrawleyThe Praline Woman - by Alice Dunbar NelsonEx-Slave Minnie Davis - United States Work Projects AdministrationWhere the Negro Lives - by Mary White OvingtonNobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon - by James Weldon JohnsonA Plea For Industrial Opportunity by Fanny Jackson CoppinSketches of the Black Baptist Church - by VariousLawing and Jawing	- by Zora Neale HurstonExcerpt from The Future of the American Negro - by Booker T. WashingtonHot Foot Hannibal - by Charles Waddell Chesnutt	The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization	 - by Monroe Nathan WorkThe Sunday School and Church...	- by Daniel Webster DavisEx-Slave Pierce Cody - United States Work Projects AdministrationHere Comes A Young Man Courting - by Thomas Washington Talley'Lazy' - by James Weldon JohnsonOf The Meaning of Progress - by W. E. B. Du Bois.

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  Short Poetry Collection 046

  Various Various

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  LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 046: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  The Visionary

  Emily Brontë

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "The Visionary" by Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë). This was the weekly poem for January 1, 2012. 
   
  The first 12 lines originally appeared in one of a large group of Gondal poems, the word coming from the name of a fictitious island kingdom in a fantasy created by Emily and her sister Anne. When Emily finally consented to have some of her poems published in 1846, along with those of sisters Charlotte and Anne, she selected parts of the Gondal poems and removed all reference to the fantasy land. However, this poem first appeared in a new, expanded edition of the sisters' poetry (in 1850, after both Emily and Anne had died) and was apparently derived as follows: 
   
  "The Visionary (October 9, 1845)This poem is part of the same Gondal poem from which Emily carved "The Prisoner. A Fragment." Charlotte Brontë took lines 1-12 of Emily's original poem, "Julian M. and A.G Rochelle," and added 8 lines of her own. Thus, the positive ending in which the watcher has a spiritual experience is Charlotte's and the watcher may be seen as Emily rather than a Gondal character. In Charlotte's version, it is hard to explain the guiding light in the window of stanze 2."(Source) 
   
  This account is fully supported by other sources. So the poem, as it was published in 1850, is a combination of work by Emily and Charlotte. Charlotte is accused by critics of using a heavy hand in editing some of Emily's formerly unpublished poems for the 1850 volume. (Introduction by Leonard Wilson)

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  37 American Poems

  Various Authors

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  Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

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