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  Fuente Ovejuna

  Lope de Vega, Adrian Mitchell

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  A cruel conqueror has captured the Spanish city of Fuente Ovejuna. As his reign of terror builds, the townspeople look within themselves to find the courage to overthrow him. The eminent Spanish playwright Lope de Vega based his best-known play on a historical incident that took place in 1476. Written in the early 17th century, the play remains a timely meditation on honor and selflessness in the face of oppression. 
    
   Recorded at the DoubleTree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in June 1993. 
    
   Directed by Robert Robinson 
   Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
    
   An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring: 
   Christine Avila as Laurencia 
   Ivonne Coll as Jacinta and Queen Isabel 
   Héctor Elizondo as Commander Fernándo Gómez de Guzmán 
   Jorge Galván as Mengo 
   Carlos Gómez as Frondoso 
   Peter A. Jacobs as Captain Flores and Master Rodrigo Téllez Girón 
   Marabina Jaimes as Pascuala 
   Jonathan Nichols as Barrildo and Cimbranos 
   Al Rodrigo as Leonelo, King Ferdinand, and Soldier 
   Ruben Sierra as Esteban  
   Sam Vlahos as Sergeant, Alonso, and Alderman  
    
   Associate Producer: Robert Robinson  
   Technical Director: Raymond Guarna  
   Second Engineer: Jim Machowsky  
   Technical Advisor: Leo del Aguila  
   Music Director: Gerald Sternbach  
   Guitar performed by Ricardo Gomez

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  A Gateway Has Opened

  Liam Blackford

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  A Gateway Has Opened is a poetry collection by Hong Kong-based poet, LIAM BLACKFORD, containing 36 missives on truth and reality, anger and rage, complexity and change, and power as manifested in people, corporations, governments, borders and cultures. The poems inhabit a chaotic and psychedelic world where water flows into the sky, nightclubs have hundreds of floors and where banks and malls publish theories on knowledge and personhood. Therein, human society is fraught with harm and violence but also euphoric with the widening horizons of possibility. The collection is notable for its strict adherence to a unique poetic form (each poem has six stanzas, each stanza with six lines, and each line with six syllables), which in its red-eyed absoluteness suggests that the poems are giving voice to an alien, an angel or a machine. Though avant-garde and philosophical, the collection is highly reflective of the poet’s place and time, in which Hong Kong is at the epicentre of epochal political and cultural change. 
  “The poems ... ‘quiver with tension’ as the speaker straddles the liminal space between dreams and the mundane.” —Ryan Fenton. “In Blackford’s verse, one is in our world, with its political and environmental anxieties, with its affluence and parallel unease.”―Andrew S. Guthrie, Proverse Prize Finalist 2013. “... what bubbles beneath the surface is the courage to find astounding beauty and inspiration amidst confounding and cruelty, and hold them both.” —Jack Mayer, Winner of the Proverse Prize 2019. “...unique explorations of poetic form.”—Philip Mead, Emeritus Professor, University of Western Australia.  “Blackford’s worlds are jarring and harsh; psychedelic yet pungent with our reality. His strict form is muscular and fascinating. Gateway seethes with energy – I loved it.”―David West, Western Australia.

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  The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

  Siegfried Sassoon

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  Unlike his more famous fellow war poets, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon survived the First World War.   In this collection of 64 poems, first published in 1920,  Sassoon portrays the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare with its staggering death toll, while also satiring the jingoistic fervour of politicians and armchair strategists.   
  Sassoon's own war service fell into two distinct periods.  The first was marked by a number of heroic actions on the battlefield which earned him the Military Cross.  However, after a period of convalescence in 1917, Sasson became a pacifist and refused to return to active duty.  This change of attitude was diagnosed as a psychological disorder and he was posted to Ireland where he trained new recruits.  By the end of the war he had been promoted to captain. For the rest of his long life he remained staunchly anti-war. 
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  Deep Wheel Orcadia - Winner of...

  Harry Josephine Giles

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  Please note, this audio edition alternates between sections written and performed in the Orkney dialect, and their English translations. Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry is followed by a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the listener will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire – all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.

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  Living on Provisions of the Holy...

  ROYCE RUCKER

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  Who knew West Virginia would be the promised land for Two to Three Hundred-Thousand African-Americans escaping the hardships of the South after the Emancipation Proclamation? Like the Black Codes and Jim Crow. Freedom comes in many forms. West Virginia became a refuge for individuals looking for a better life, but it sometimes came with a deadly price. This book captures the spirit of one family’s devotion for one another, and the drive to never give up on the “American Dream” at a time in the United States of America when the desires of Black business owners were plentiful, but the reality of Black business ownership was just a dream...

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  Top 10 Poets – Born in London...

  Christina Rossetti, Charlotte...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
  The great city of London is perhaps unrivalled in its scale and effect on humankind down the centuries.  Its sprawl and its teeming throngs have shaped the world and even how we live today.  Within these 10 Women poets, who called this gloried city home, came poems that sought to define and explain just why that is.

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