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  Librivox Multilingual Short...

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. Brief description of the contributions:01 - Bisaya - Ang mga Mahadlokon [1921]: prose, scaredy cats, talawan nga ulitawo, simbang gabi02 - Japanese - Trokko [1922]: prose, fiction, young adult03 - Spanish - Día de bronca [1912]: poetry, lunfardo, slang, argot, love affair, anger, betrayal, unfaithfulness04 - Japanese - Matsu [1942]: prose, fiction, monologue, I wait, young lady05 - Polish - Moja pierwsza bitwa. Opowiadanie sierzanta: prose; short story; proza; opowiadanie; powstanie listopadowe06 - Portuguese - A Aia [1902]: prose, fiction, war, death, tragedy07 - Tagalog - Pahimakas [1898] (translated from the Spanish by Hermenegildo Cruz): poetry, Mi Ultimo Adios, oil lamp, Huling Paalam08 - German - Die berühmte Frau [1788]: poetry09 - Japanese - Oka no ie [1921]: prose, fiction , children, hill, house10 - Japanese - Sakurano kino shitaniwa [1928]: prose, fiction, monologue, cherry tree11 - Japanese - Ichyono mi: prose, fiction, children, ginkgo tree12 - German - Wahrhaftig: poetry, spring, nature13 - Japanese - Hitofusano budou [1920]: prose, fiction, young adult, school14 - Swedish - Önskenatt [1922]: poetry15 - Japanese - Sakazuki [1910]: prose, fiction, winecup, spring16 - Japanese - Okashino daibutoukai [1923]: prose, fiction, children, sweets17 - Polish - Dziad i Baba: short story, fable, moral, devil, greed18 - German - Auch ein Gedicht? [1864]: humorous nonsense impromtu poem as outcome of a lost bet19 - Japanese - Yabuno naka [1922]: prose, fiction, mystery20 - Dutch - Doodgaan [1888]: poetry, death

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  To Two Little Sisters of the Poor

  Aline Kilmer

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  Aline Murray Kilmer (August 1, 1888 – October 1, 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of poet and journalist Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).Aline attended the Rutgers College Preparatory School with her husband, Alfred Joyce Kilmer and married him soon after his graduation from Columbia University in 1908. In their short marriage, lasting 10 years, her husband had achieved fame as a poet, literary critic and among Catholic circles as America's most prominent Catholic writer. After his death in World War I, Aline began publishing her own poetry and a few children's books. Today, her work is largely forgotten. - Summary by Wikipedia

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  The Hole in the Top of the World

  Fay Weldon

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  Walter Matthau stars in the story of a climate scientist trying to balance romance and research. The piece is both serious and surreal as Matthau removes the “fourth wall” while addressing the show’s recording engineer. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek and Valerie Landsburg.Directed by Shaun McLoughlin. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in June, 1992.

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  Useful Junk

  Erika Meitner

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  A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems.In her previous five collections of poetry, Erika Meitner has established herself as one of America’s most incisive observers, cherished for her remarkable ability to temper catastrophe with tenderness. In her newest collection Useful Junk, Meitner considers what it means to be a sexual being in a world that sees women as invisible—as mothers, customers, passengers, worshippers, wives. These poems render our changing bodies as real and alive, shaped by the sense memories of long-lost lovers and the still thrilling touch of a spouse after years of parenthood, affirming that we are made of every intimate moment we have ever had. Letter poems to a younger poet interspersed throughout the collection question desire itself and how new technologies—Uber, sexting, Instagram—are reframing self-image and shifting the ratios of risk and reward in erotic encounters.With dauntless vulnerability, Meitner travels a world of strip malls, supermarkets, and subway platforms, remaining porous and open to the world, always returning to the intimacies rooted deep within the self as a shout against the dying earth. Boldly affirming that pleasure is a vital form of knowledge, Useful Junk reminds us that our selves are made real and beautiful by our embodied experiences and that our desire is what keeps us alive.

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  A Woman of No Importance

  Oscar Wilde

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  Devilishly attractive Lord Illingworth is notorious for his skill as a seducer. But he is still invited to all the “best” houses while his female conquests must hide their shame in seclusion. In this devastating comedy, Wilde uses his celebrated wit to expose English society’s narrow view of everything from sexual mores to Americans. Adapted by Martin Jarvis.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
  
  Martin Jarvis as Lord Illingworth
  Peter Dennis as Sir John Pontefract
  Jim Norton as Mr. Kelvil, M.P.
  Robert Machray as The Venerable Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D.
  Paul Gutrecht as Gerald Arbuthnot
  Miriam Margolyes as Lady Hunstanton
  Jane Carr as Lady Caroline Pontefract
  Judy Geeson as Lady Stutfield
  Cherie Lunghi as Mrs. Allonby and Alice
  Samantha Mathis as Miss Hester Worsley
  Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. Arbuthnot
  
  Includes an interview with Oscar Wilde’s only grandchild, Merlin Holland, who is also a noted biographer and editor of Wilde’s works.
  
  Directed by Michael Hackett. Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Suites, Santa Monica in November of 1995.

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  Long Poems Collection 003

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 003: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

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