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  Triumph of the Sparrow - Zen Poems

  Shinkichi Takahashi

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  “You need know nothing of Zen to become immersed in his work. You will inevitably know something of Zen when you emerge” (Jim Harrison, American Poetry Review).   Shinkichi Takahashi is one of the truly great figures in world poetry. In the classic Zen tradition of economy, disciplined attention, and subtlety, Takahashi lucidly captures that which is contemporary in its problems and experiences, yet classic in its quest for unity with the Absolute. Lucien Stryk, Takahashi’s fellow poet and close friend, here presents Takahashi’s complete body of Zen poems in an English translation that conveys the grace and power of Takahashi’s superb art.   “A first-rate poet . . . [Takahashi] springs out of some crack between ordinary worlds: that is, there is some genuine madness of the sort striven for in Zen.” —Robert Bly

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  Jefferson's Garden

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

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  You say you want a Revolution? The story of this country’s struggle for independence is told with a fresh slant and theatrical inventiveness. As Thomas Jefferson struggles to find the right words to frame a nation, a young Quaker must weigh his desire to participate in the struggle against his pacifist beliefs.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:Rosalind Ayres as Martha/Nelly RoseNate Corddry as ChristianEllis Greer as BettyGregory Harrison as Carl/Thomas JeffersonLovensky Jean-Baptiste as James HemmingsIfan Meredith as Harry/Jim MadisonDarren Richardson as Daniel/George Mason/M. PerraultEmily Swallow as Louisa/ImogenInger Tudor as Susannah/SallyAdditional chorus roles performed by the castDirected by Martin Jarvis. Recorded live in performance at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in March 2017.Sound Effects Artist, Jonathan Kells Phillips. Production Manager, Katie Friesen. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Associate Producer, Anna Lyse Erikson. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

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  Men of Harlech

  Talhaiarn

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  LibriVox readers present 7 versions of "Men of Harlech" by Talhaiarn. This was the weekly poem for the week of September 23, 2012. 
   
  "Men of Harlech" or "The March of the Men of Harlech" is a song and military march which is traditionally said to describe events during the seven year long siege of Harlech Castle between 1461 and 1468. The music was first published without words in 1794, but it is said to be a much earlier folk air. The song was published in Volume II of the 1862 collection Welsh Melodies with the Welsh lyrics by the Welsh poet John Jones (Talhaiarn). A version translated by John Oxenford was published in "The Songs of Wales" in 1873 with music edited by Brinley Richards. This is the version recorded in this week's poetry project. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Living in the Tall Grass - Poems...

  R. Stacy Laforme

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  In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation audiobook, Chief Stacey Laforme performs his poems that tell a history of his people and let people see through the eyes of Indigenous people. In it, he hits hard on matters of residential schools, the environment, suicide among Indigenous youth, domestic abuse, and so on, but also writes poems of love and hope.

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  Spilled Milk

  Veronica Christopher

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  Things aren’t always what they seem… 
  In the idyllic mountain town of Little Bethlehem, the hills and valleys hold many secrets. 20-year old Amber St. Germaine knows all about secrets…With a sister locked up for murdering their father, and a selfish, abusive mother, Amber has no choice but to step up and care for younger sister, Rorie. On the brink of insanity, her only solace is her twisted obsession with big brother, Bret, and visits with Rose in prison. 
  Spilled Milk is the story of a girl trying to break free from a crippling family legacy tainted with forbidden love, incest, abuse, and a trail of mysterious deaths. When pieces of the forgotten past resurface, can Amber keep it together for the sake of her little sister- or will she finally succumb to the darkness?

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  In Accelerated Silence - Poems

  Brooke Matson

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  “Anguished and unblinking . . . Accomplished poetry that will move those who have sorrowed—that is, everyone.” —Library Journal 
   
  “The thin knife that severed your tumor,” writes Brooke Matson in these poems, “it cleaves me still.” What to do when a world is split—terribly, wholly—by grief? When the loss of the beloved undermines the most stable foundations, the most sacred spaces, of that world? What else but to interrogate the very fundamental principles themselves, all the knowns previously relied on: light, religion, physical matter, time? 
   
  Often borrowing voices and perspectives from its scientific subjects, In Accelerated Silence investigates the multidimensional nature of grief and its blurring of boundaries—between what is present and what is absent, between what is real and imagined, between the promises of science and the mysteries of human knowing, and between the pain that never ends and the world that refuses to. The grieving and the seeking go on, Matson suggests, but there comes a day when we emerge, “now strong enough / to venture out of doors, thin // and swathed in a robe,” only to find it has continued “full and flourishing and larger than before.” 
   
  Sensual and devastating, In Accelerated Silence—selected by Mark Doty as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize—creates an unforgettable portrait of loss full of urgency and heartache and philosophical daring. 
   
  “Blends chemistry, astrophysics, light, and time with grief, mystery, resilience, and love into some truly gorgeous poems that you don’t have to be a scientist (or a poetry nerd) to love.” —Electric Literature

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