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  Dear Memphis - poems

  Rachel Edelman

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  ‘What do I know about exile?’ asks the speaker in DEAR MEMPHIS, embedded in the colliding migrations and intimate economies of the American South. Offering a direct address to the city where the poet grew up, this collection explores questions of generation amidst the displacement and belonging of a Jewish family in Memphis, Tennessee. These poems sing with their attention to the particular body and what it cannot carry, what it cannot put down. Through letters, city documents, visual art, and dialogue, Dear Memphis excavates ancestry, inheritance, and the ecological possibility of imagining a future.

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  The Hayflick Limit

  Matthew Tierney

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  Shortlisted for the 2010 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
   
  To be human is to cope with knowing. In the early sixties, Leonard Hayflick determined that healthy cells can divide only a finite number of times. Known as the Hayflick Limit, the law sets an unsurpassable lifespan for our species at just over 120 years.
   
  The Hayflick Limit concerns itself with boundaries of the cosmic and sub-atomic – how the mind contains both – and the sadsack creatures in the nexus, human beings. What does it mean to be an intelligent species? What does it mean to be an intelligent person?
   
  Shifting focus between the limits of the telescope and the limits of the microscope, the poems in Matthew Tierney's second collection place a premium on inventiveness while embracing extremes of fear, pain, cognition and time. With demotic verve and a humming line, he gives voice to a range of characters who scrape out meaning in a carnivalesque universe that has birthed black holes and Warner Bros. cartoons, murky market economies, murkier quantum laws, Vincent Price, Molotov cocktails, seedless grapes, Area 51 and competing Theories of Everything.
   
  ‘The most thoroughly engaged and inventive book of poetry I have read in a long, long time. Brimming with hi-lo wit, keenly apprised and settled with cultured repose, Matthew Tierney takes The HayflickLimit to the hoop.’ – David McGimpsey
   
  ‘Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist. His lines manage to blur the border between nomenclature and everyday insight ... Call it science fiction for the melancholic.’
   
  – Eye Weekly

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  The Richard II

  William Shakespeare

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  Richard II by William Shakespeare is the first of eight plays that portray a historically-informed version of the War of the Roses - beginning in about 1365 and ending with Richard III's death in 1485. 
  Edited by J. M. Smallheer and John Gonzalez. (Summary by Cori) 
  Characters:Narration, Keeper, and Lord - read by  Annie ColemanKing Richard II and First Servant - read by  Peter YearsleyNorthumberland and Gaunt - read by  ChipBolingbroke - read by  Kayvan SylvanAumerle - read by  John GonzalezHenry Percy - read by  Michael SiroisYork - read by  Martin CliftonMowbray - read by  Mark F. SmithSurrey and Willoughby - read by  Nikolle DoolinSalisbury - read by  David BarnesBushy and Carlisle - read by  Cecelia PriorBagot, Abbot, Scroop, and Exton - read by  LintonGreen - read by  deadwhitemalesQueen Isabel - read by  Joy ChanDuchess of York - read by  Kristen McQuillinBerkeley - read by  RainerRoss - read by  Mr. Baby ManFitzwater and Groom - read by  Sean McKinleyMarshal - read by  Lenny Glionna Jr.Captain and First Herald - read by  Hugh MacDuchess of Gloucester - read by  GesineLady - read by  Maureen S. O'BrienGardener, Second Herald, and Second Servant - read by  Kara Shallenberg

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  Short Poetry Collection 012

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 012: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  Damon Runyon Theater - Touching...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  O Captain! My Captain!

  Walt Whitman

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "O Captain! My Captain!" This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014."O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt Whitman, who worked as a clerk and army hospital nurse during the Civil War. The Captain of the poem is Lincoln, and the ship represents the United States, brought safely through the storm of war. In the poem, Whitman juxtaposes the people's joy at the end of the war with his grief at the assassination of the President. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

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