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  Poems of Sentiment

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This time, the topic is "Sentiment". - Summary by Carolin

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  My Comforter

  Anonymous Anonymous

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of My Comforter by anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 25, 2012.

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  How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy...

  Barbara Kingsolver

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  In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous.  
  In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with “how to” poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. 
   
  Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders—birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and thousand-year-old beech trees—all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves. 
  Altogether, these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. It’s all terribly easy and, as the title suggests, not entirely possible. Or at least, it is never quite finished. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Hay Fever

  Noel Coward

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  Three members of an idiosyncratic family are expecting company at their country estate. But when their unsuspecting guests arrive, they find that a weekend with the Bliss family is anything but. Classic Noël Coward.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
  
  Tate Donovan as Richard Gratham
  Arabella Field as David Boies
  Joy Gregory as Sorel Bliss Coryton
  Jeffrey Jones as David Bliss
  Lynne Marta as Clara
  Serena Scott Thomas as Myra Abundel
  Carolyn Seymour as Judith Bliss
  Eric Stoltz as Sandy Tyrell
  Simon Templeman as Simon Bliss
  
  Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in October of 1999.

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  A Dream Play (NHB Classic Plays)

  August Strindberg

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  Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of Strindberg's enigmatic masterpiece.
  Written in 1901, a mysterious amalgam of Freud, Alice in Wonderland and Strindberg's own private symbolism, A Dream Play follows the logic of a dream:
  A young woman comes from another world to see if life is really as difficult as people make it out to be. Characters merge into each other, locations change in an instant and a locked door becomes an obsessive recurrent image. As Strindberg wrote in his preface, he wanted 'to imitate the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist.'
  From a literal translation by Charlotte Barslund. Introduction by Caryl Churchill.
  'elegant yet funereal and, like dreams, paradoxically serene and fraught'- Independent on Sunday
  '100 minutes of disconcerting theatrical brilliance... spellbinding'- Daily Telegraph

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  Who Carry Shit?

  Gideon Husswin

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  This audio-drama is in Pidgin English, widely spoken across Anglophonic West Africa. It centres on a masquerade festival that tells a story about the positive and the negative energies of human kind. Using colour semiotics, it centres on the achromatic scheme of black and white. The story is based on a pre-creation and creation biblical allusion, embedded within an imaginary hybrid African cultural context. It is a fight between Baba God and Oga Devil over who runs the affair of Man Pickin.

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