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  Leaves of Grass

  Walt Whitman

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  American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass exalted the body and the material world.    Whitman was inspired to begin Leaves of Grass after reading an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson which expressed a need for a uniquely American poet. When the book was first published, Whitman sent a copy to Emerson, whose praiseful letter of response helped launch the book to success. Whitman’s hero, Abraham Lincoln, read and enjoyed an early version of Leaves of Grass. Despite such high recommendations, Whitman faced charges of obscenity and immorality for his work, but this only led to increased popularity of the book.    Whitman continually revised and republished Leaves of Grass throughout his lifetime, notably adding the “Drum-Taps” section after Lincoln’s assassination. The book grew from 12 poems in its first publication, which Whitman paid for and typeset himself, to nearly 400 poems in its final, “Death Bed Edition.” This recording is of the final edition.    (Summary adapted from wikipedia.org by Annie Coleman)

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  Art and Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 38 different recordings of Art and Heart, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This poem, originally suggested by Betsie Bush, was chosen for this special collection due to a general concensus that the message of the poem corresponds with the spirit of LibriVox.The poem asserts that, “It is not art, but heart, that wins the wide world over.” And so it is with LibriVox: it is not only the books, the poetry, the literature that make LibriVox what it is; but it is also the people, the diversity of voices, and all of the different lives and experiences that affect the way a person reads a piece of text. The art is the foundation of LibriVox, but the many hearts behind it are the true essence and spirit of LibriVox.For more information on the the first anniversary of LibriVox, and to hear a one hour special audio program featuring interviews, bloopers, and samplers, please visit the Anniversary homepage: http://librivox.org/librivox-anniversary-2006/

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  Space and Time Magazine - Spring...

  Angela Yuriko Smith, Clinton...

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  Space and Time Magazine has been putting the best speculative fiction and poetry in ink for over five decades—a must-read for true fans of Strange and Unusual. Readers can look forward to stories from the future stars of genre fiction intermingled with unique tales from pros like Jessica A. Salmonson, Norman Spinrad, Jack Ketchum, and Aliette de Bodard. 
  Whether you are new to the magazine, or have been with us since our inception five decades ago, we are proud to provide you with this source of great fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Please visit this site often, as it is the best, most up-to-date source of info on all things Space and Time. 
  www.spaceandtimemagazine.net

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  Gerard Hardy's Misfortune - A...

  Dorothy Johnston

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  According to local legend, the historic Royal hotel in Queenscliff on Australia's Victorian coast is haunted. Having served as both a mental asylum and a morgue in the early days it could hardly fail to be, but a bizarre murder in the hotel's basement puts a decidedly eerie spin on things. 
  The victim is an academic, obsessed with spiritualism, the tarot and the town’s most famous literary resident, Henry Handel Richardson. From the outset, the local knowledge and unorthodox methods of Queenscliff’s police officers, Chris Blackie and Anthea Merritt, are ridiculed by the bull-necked Detective Inspector Masterson from Geelong’s CIU. And yet, hard-nosed police investigation practices seem ill-equipped to counter the otherworldly influences at play. 
  What DI Masterson believes is an open and shut case turns out to be anything but. 
  Anthea began creating a large cross with the cards. She looked up and smiled. ‘I tell you what’s ironic. I got into trouble for buying my own tarot pack and now Mrs Marr’s using the tarot to bamboozle the inspector. I’m the only one who’s done her homework and knows what the cards mean.’ 
  Gerard Hardy’s Misfortune joins Through a Camel’s Eye and The Swan Island Connection as the latest, most intriguing instalment in Dorothy Johnston’s sea-change mystery series. 

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  The Poetry of Harold Munro

  Harold Munro

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  Harold Edward Munro was born on the 14th of March 1879 at 137 chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles, Brussels. 
   
  He was educated at Radley College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. On 2nd December 1903 in Ireland Munro married Dorothy Elizabeth Browne. Unfortunately the marriage was not to last and they separated in 1908.   
   
  In 1906 his first collection of poetry, Poems, was published.  Many volumes followed but Munro was never regarded as highly as his contemporaries.  Perhaps his forays into magazines, editing and publishing and his bookshop has unfairly diminished his poetic contribution. 
   
  In 1912 he became the editor of the influential magazine, The Poetry Review, but was ousted after a year. In 1913 he founded the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury.  From here he would also publish new volumes of poetry by himself and other writers.  With Edward Marsh he published annual volumes of Georgian Poetry in the process establishing it as a very fine poetry movement.   
   
  Munro was often tortured by his sexuality and although he married twice some of his poems reveal his truer feelings.  As the Great War smothered Europe with its monstrous destruction of a generation, the War Poets spoke. 
   
  Munro himself wrote only a few war poems but his ‘Youth in Arms’ quartet, written in the first months of the carnage, was an early attempt to explore the human psychology of soldiering and to understand how ungrudgingly youth dies. 
   
  After the war Munro continued his efforts with the Poetry Bookshop and expanded into several new projects.  He was searching both as a writer, and as a publisher, for the middle ground that was both culturally exciting and commercially worthwhile. 
   
  In his later years his mood darkened, his drinking escalated and became a real problem.  Sadly amongst the stresses and the strains he contracted tuberculosis.  
   
  Harold Edward Munro died on the 16th March 1932 aged 53.  He was cremated at Golders Green crematorium. 
   
  It was later remarked of him ‘Perhaps no one did more for the advancement of twentieth-century poetry’.

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  The Window on the Hill

  Madison Cawein

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Window on the Hill by Madison Julius Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the fifth child of William and Christiana (Stelsly) Cawein. His father made patent medicines from herbs. Cawein thus became acquainted with and developed a love for local nature as a child. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". He was popular enough that, by 1900, he told the Louisville Courier-Journal that his income from publishing poetry in magazines amounted to about $100 a month (Summary by Wikipedia)

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