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  Salomé - A Tragedy in One Act

  Oscar Wilde

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  Come join me in reading the one of Oscar Wilde's only remaining tragedies, based on one of the most notorious recollections of the Bible. A story of gruesome ends for gruesome desires that shocked many of the theater goers in the late 1800's. 
  Salomé, the daughter of Herodious, has become utterly smitten with John the Baptist due to his rebuke of her advances. This causes her to desire him and only him, even unto death. ... His Death. 
  Come listen to the play that was the inspiration for the opera of the same name written by Richard Strauss, and one of the very first embodiments of the femme fatale.

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  Stock

  Jennifer Bowering Delisle

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  Stock photographs are everywhere. With their contrived poses, unusual angles, and bizarre visual metaphors, they’re instantly familiar – and familiarly narrow in their vision of our society. Their ubiquity shapes and reinforces the biases, privilege, and stereotypes of their distinct aesthetic. 
  From found poems using metadata and keywords to riffs on stock image database search results with titles like ‘Good Mother Morning Family Happy,’ ‘Beautiful Woman Eating Salad,’ and ‘Lady Boss Smiles with Arms Folded,’ Delisle’s ekphrastic poems take a playful look at stock photography’s clichés and delight in all its strangeness, while casting a critical eye on its representations of women.

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  If I Didn’t Love the River - Poems

  Robert Priest

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  In this virtuoso display of sonnets, free verse, prose poems, villanelles, ghazals, and aphorisms, People’s Poet Robert Priest makes it clear why the Pacific Rim Review has called him “surely the most imaginatively inventive poet in the country.” A profound meditation on love, death, sex, and sickness, If I Didn’t Love the River speaks directly to the polarizations of our time. Priest’s mastery of dark satire, lyric ebullience, erotic verse, and the pithy maxim is as gratifying as it is unique and will appeal to the yearning for poetry, which so often goes unsatisfied in the reading public. No emotional territory — from angst, anger, anguish, and despair to whimsical delight — is off-limits here. Intent on releasing reverberations from the full depths and heights of what it is to be human, this is Robert Priest at his protean best.

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  The Ghost's Petition - Including...

  Christina Rossetti, A. M. Bly

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Christina Rossetti’s poetry is marked by lyrical restraint, emotional depth, and spiritual intensity. Her verse weaves simplicity with symbolism, exploring love, renunciation, faith, longing, and mortality in language that is both clear and haunting. Drawing on natural imagery, biblical resonance, and quiet musicality, Rossetti’s poems speak with a voice that is intimate yet enduring, tender yet unsparing. 
  This audiobook presents a carefully curated selection of her poems, each accompanied by an original literary analysis that illuminates Rossetti’s themes, imagery, and emotional architecture. Enhancing the experience, a specially composed piano underscore accompanies every poem, written to reflect its mood, rhythm, and inner tension. Together, poetry, analysis, and music create an immersive listening experience that deepens understanding while preserving the quiet power of Rossetti’s voice.

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  As You Like It - A Dramatic...

  William Shakespeare

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  Long theorized to be one of Shakespeare's mid-career works, As You Like It remains an evergreen favorite for audiences and scholars alike for its sparkling characters, pastoral setting, gorgeous prose and entertaining storylines that converge in fun and surprising ways. When several characters, including an elderly French duke, his headstrong daughter Rosalind, and Rosalind's handsome love interest Orlando, are forced to flee the kingdom and take refuge in the neighboring Forest of Arden, their adventures therein lead to a series of amusing encounters and mix-ups. Genders are reversed, courtships are developed, attractions are left unrequited, and the action reflected upon by the likes of witty fools and discontented courtiers. Who will end up with whom? Who will be left in the lurch? And will the pastoral chaos in Arden reach a satisfying resolution? You'll have to listen to find out!

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  Richard Burton reads The Rape of...

  William Shakespeare

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  Richard Burton reads Shakespeare's narrative poem about the legendary Lucretia

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