Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/296201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rummage Author: Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa Narrator: Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 17 minutes Release date: August 29, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2015 Little A Poetry Contest. A journey through girlhood, self-discovery, and the little acts of violence we inflict on one another. In an astounding debut poetry collection, Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Lambda Literary fellow Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa presents a relentless but refined portrait of one young woman’s journey toward self-discovery. Her poems explore the eternal themes of the human condition—nature, origin, shame, identity, desire, mortality—with sensitivity and specificity. They illuminate and interrogate the ways that her characters inflict and experience pain, ultimately revealing how we must all face our shame in order to grow. No voice is blameless; no person is exempt. Divided into four sections, the collection reads as a life cycle of emotional metamorphosis: girlhood and sexuality, trauma, relationships, and grief. Rummage is a wildly courageous and lyrical book full of music, metaphor, and the power of memory.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Her Wild: Poems Author: Atticus Narrator: Atticus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: The first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars. Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his Instagram account @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and Shay Mitchell. He was dubbed the “#1 poet to follow” by Teen Vogue and “the world’s most tattoo-able” poet by Galore magazine, in Love Her Wild, Atticus captures what is both raw and relatable about the smallest and the grandest moments in life: the first glimpse of a new love in Paris; skinny dipping on a summer’s night; the irrepressible exuberance of the female spirit; or drinking whiskey in the desert watching the rising sun. With honesty, poignancy, and romantic flair, Atticus distills the most exhilarating highs and the heartbreaking lows of life and love into a few perfectly evocative lines, ensuring that his words will become etched in your mind—and will awaken your sense of adventure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Inferno Author: Dante Narrator: Dominic Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 11, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: “Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring' translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet. “The Hollanders … act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us through the Italian text that is printed on the facing page.” —The Economist The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander have written a beautifully accurate and clear verse translation of the first volume of Dante’s epic poem, the Divine Comedy. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, this edition also offers an extensive and accessible introduction and generous commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship as well as Robert Hollander’s own decades of teaching and research. The Hollander translation is the new standard in English of this essential work.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/295778 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Poets: Matthew Arnold Author: Matthew Arnold Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 18 minutes Release date: June 9, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Considered the bridge between romanticism and modernism, Matthew Arnold wrote verse that is simple, unadorned and straightforward. From the hypnotic and beautiful lines of Dover Beach, to the pastoral narrative of The Scholar Gipsy, Arnold cast a gaze at the main intellectual issues of the nineteenth century while giving a timeless insight into man and nature. This collection covers his major poetic works, including the narrative poems, sonnets and elegiac poems, illuminating the lyricism and serenity of Arnold's best poetry. • Delivered with verve and passion, Jonathan Keeble's reading is suffused with an energy found in Arnold's most moving poetry. • Other poems include Desire, Longing, A Summer Night, Consolation, Philomela, A Dream, East London, West London, Thyrsis, Immortality, Growing Old, A Wish, Bacchanalia|Or, The New Age, A Modern Sappho, The Hayswater Boat, The River, Human Life, The Buried Life, Austerity of Poetry, A Farewell, Requiescat.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los Versos del Capitán Author: Pablo Neruda Narrator: Jane Santos, Gerardo Prat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 33 minutes Release date: June 6, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Pablo Neruda, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura, terminó de escribir Los versos del Capitán en 1952 mientras estaba en el exilio en la isla de Capri, paradisíaco escenario de la exitosa película Il Postino. Rodeada por el mar, el sol y los esplendores naturales de Capri, Neruda dirigió estos poemas a su amante Matilde Urrutia antes de casarse, pero no los publicó hasta 1963. Esta colección completa se ha convertido en un clásico para los lectores de amor Mundo—apasionadamente sensual y explotando con toda la energía erótica de un nuevo amor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Selected poems 1961-2016 Author: Gene Ennes Narrator: Gene Ennes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: This poetry collection is a distillation of a 74 yr. old man's life from 1961 to 2016.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks Author: Angela Jackson Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 30, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: A look back at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her hundredth birthday Artist–Rebel–Pioneer Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her poetry took inspiration from the complex portraits of black American life she observed growing up on Chicago’s Southside—a world of kitchenette apartments and vibrant streets. From the desk in her bedroom, as a child she filled countless notebooks with poetry, encouraged by the likes of Hughes and affirmed by Richard Wright, who called her work “raw and real.” Over the next sixty years, Brooks’s poetry served as witness to the stark realities of urban life: the evils of lynching, the murders of Emmett Till and Malcolm X, the revolutionary effects of the civil rights movement, and the burgeoning power of the Black Arts Movement. Critical acclaim and the distinction in 1950 as the first black person ever awarded a Pulitzer Prize helped solidify Brooks as a unique and powerful voice. Now, in A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun, fellow Chicagoan and award-winning writer Angela Jackson delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks’s work and world. Granted unprecedented access to Brooks’s family, personal papers, and writing community, Jackson traces the literary arc of this artist’s long career and gives context for the world in which Brooks wrote and published her work. It is a powerfully intimate look at a once-in-a-lifetime talent up close, using forty-three of Brooks’s most soul-stirring poems as a guide. From trying to fit in at school (“Forgive and Forget”), to loving her physical self (“To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals”), to marriage and motherhood (“Maud Martha”), to young men on her block (“We Real Cool”), to breaking history (“Medgar Evers”), to newfound acceptance from her community and her elevation to a “surprising queenhood” (“The Wall”), Brooks lived life through her work. Jackson deftly unpacks it all for both longtime admirers of Brooks and newcomers curious about her interior life. A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun is a commemoration of a writer who negotiated black womanhood and incomparable brilliance with a changing, restless world—an artistic maverick way ahead of her time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Black Book of Verse Author: D. E. Monnier Narrator: D. E. Monnier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: The Little Black Book of Verse is a collection of confessional poetry spanning 15 years. One woman's exploration of desire and sexuality, love and loss, birth and death, betrayal and redemption, as viewed through the lens of mythology, occult imagery and the natural world. The Little Black Book of Verse takes readers on a journey into taboo and life's bittersweet vignettes, traversing fable and fantasy. In this collection of poetry and poetic prose, the sacred and mundane coalesce through seasons, cycles, and the interconnectedness of all things.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In between... life Author: Luiz Valério De Paula Trindade Narrator: Lindsay Hamond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 4, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Unplugged! If there is a single word capable to accurately summarise the atmosphere of this book, that is for sure the most appropriate given that, similarly to an unplugged performance of your favourite band/singer, the selected poems in this book also convey the sensation of filling out the room and taking your senses to a different state of mind. They address topics such as love, romance, perceptions about life around us, and new discoveries. Nonetheless, they are unplugged' of unnecessary features, meaning that they make the reader feel at ease from the very first lines and engaging you just like an intimate conversation with your closest friend.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada Author: Pablo Neruda Narrator: Gerardo Prat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924, cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora sociedad chilena debido a su franco retrato de la relación del autor con dos mujeres. Se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las colecciones de poesía más leídas, estableciendo a Neruda como una de las más singulares voces de la poesía en español del siglo XX. Incluso leído hoy, sigue sorprendiendo por su sincera descripción del amor y el sexo.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill Audio Collection Author: Kimberly Simms Narrator: Kimberly Simms Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 20, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: This short collections of poetry contains poems from the new full collection collection Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill written by Kimberly Simms. This book is for the history buff, student, and poetry lover alike. Ron Rash says of the collection, "“Kimberly Simms writes with eloquence and empathy about an important part of Southern history too often neglected." "Focused on a life sewn into mill town culture of the early twentieth century and on through the sixties, Kimberly Simms' Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill reignite an important (but often forgotten) crux of the South's history. These are not lugubrious, nostalgia-laden poems longing for a South that never was: they are, in sum, a beautiful lens through which to celebrate and record the joys and hardships of a charged, mythic, and sweat-soaked place, its kin and kith, and the microcosmic realities that gather to form a dynamism, a culture still moving, abiding in memory and the heart." --William Wright "With an eye for keen and often surprising details, Kimberly Simms captures the cadence, the splendor, and the heartache of the lives of Southern textile mill workers. These poems of sorrow, joy, and redemption are the sort of literary experience that stick with you longer after the final line has fallen into an echo." --Ryan G. Van Cleave “Innovative and entertaining. Often Simms reminds me of Rita Dove's THOMAS AND BEULAH, the ability to capture a whole human life in only a few carefully-crafted lines. Simms blends the folk-road with the erudite, makes the plain-spoken country-speak stand for the deepest spiritual constructs with our souls. I've read this collection several times for the delight and the surprise. I strongly suspect other readers will too. What a new craftsman is here!” --Paul Allen Included poems: The Cotton Mill's Song, Mama's Song, The Ugly Jug, Dip, Cliff Jump, Lindy Lee's Trout Breakfast, Hop Along Little Crown, Brother's Mess of Crosses, and Blue Panes. These poems tie into state history standards for South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Author: Pablo Neruda Narrator: C. S. Verdád Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 54 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: More than a hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda’s poetry is as vital and beloved as ever. This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history’s greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world’s leading Neruda scholars. A definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth of Neruda’s various styles, themes, and periods, The Essential Neruda breathes new life and understanding into the world of one of Latin America’s—and the world’s—treasures.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth Author: Warsan Shire Narrator: Warsan Shire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi. As Rumi said, 'Love will find its way through all languages on its own'; in teaching my mother how to give birth, Warsan's début pamphlet, we witness the unearthing of a poet who finds her way through all preconceptions to strike the heart directly.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pink Mist Author: Owen Sheers Narrator: Robert K. Benson, Liam Gerrard, Gemma Dawson, Marisa Calin, Elizabeth Jasicki, Andrew Fallaize, Graeme Malcolm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 40 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat. In early 2008, three young friends from Bristol decide to join the army and are deployed to the conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time the three men return to the women in their lives—a wife, a mother, a girlfriend—all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of military service. Written from the points of view of each soldier, Sheers explores not only their experiences in the field of battle but also the grueling process of recovery following a debilitating injury, the strain of PTSD on a new marriage, and the emotional toll of survivor’s guilt among soldiers and their loved ones at home. Drawing on interviews with soldiers and their families, Sheers illuminates the enduring human cost of war and its often devastating effect on the young lives pulled into its orbit. Pink Mist is a work of great dramatic power, documentary integrity, and emotional intensity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lift Off: From the Classroom to the Stars Author: Donovan Livingston Narrator: Donovan Livingston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: An inspirational rallying call about education, race, and the true nature of equality—the Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation speech praised as “powerful” by Hillary Rodham Clinton in Teen Vogue and “inspired” by Justin Timberlake. In emotionally charged spoken-word poetry, Livingston shares a message of hope and hard truths, declaring that education can become an equalizer only if we first acknowledge the inequality and racial divides holding back America’s future. Livingston is dedicated to helping young people reach their celestial potential, and in his galvanizing commencement address, now adapted for the first time to the page, he calls on us to raise our voices on behalf of all children, as their brighter futures can light up our own. Together, we can lift off! Praise for Donovan Livingston “Donovan Livingston gave a powerful speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s convocation. In a spoken-word poem, he shared his struggles in life and urged his fellow graduates to fight inequality and inspire students. . . . Donovan’s message hit home. . . . [He is] part of a rising generation that’s . . . standing up to some of the biggest challenges in the world today.”—Hillary Rodham Clinton, Teen Vogue “These are the words, and Donovan Livingston’s voice and spirit are the music, but in any form, this rare graduation speech tells us that learning is full of bias yet can lead us to the stars.”—Gloria Steinem “Donovan Livingston’s Lift Off is our youth’s gift to us. In this joyous young man’s voice is the promise of tomorrow.”—James McBride

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/293913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Did This Happen?: Poems for the Not So Young Anymore Author: Mary D. Esselman, Elizabeth Ash Vélez Narrator: Karissa Vacker, Christine Lakin, Erin Bennett, Dan Woren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling authors of The Hell with Love, a fierce, funny, touching collection that takes the sting out of 'aging while female.'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Poemas de Amor Author: Pablo Neruda Narrator: Gerardo Prat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Cargados de sensualidad y pasión, los poemas de amor de Pablo Neruda son los más célebres de la obra del premio Nobel, cautivando a los lectores con imágenes terrestres y disfrutando de un fuego re-imaginación del mundo. Sobre todo por escrito en la paradisíaca isla de Capri (el entorno idílico de la película ganadora del Oscar Il Postino) Poemas de amor abraza los marinos circundantes el poeta y su amor Matilde Urrutia, sus ondas y costas saturados con un nuevo erotismo anhelo .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Captain’s Verses: The Love Poems Author: Pablo Neruda Narrator: Armando Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 22 minutes Release date: April 4, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain’s Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri―the paradisiacal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri’s natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were married, but he didn’t publish them publicly until 1963. This complete collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world―passionately sensuous and exploding with all the erotic energy of a new love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291721 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuéntame un verso: Antología de Verso&Cuento para escuchar Author: Varios Autores Narrator: Abbey C., Karmelo Iribarren, Mikel Izal, Miguel Gane, Luis Ramiro, Irene G Punto, Holden Centeno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 2, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Hay algo que tienen que contarte Abbey C, Holden Centeno, Irene G Punto, Karmelo C. Iribarren, Luis Ramiro, Miguel Gane y Mikel Izal. ¿Eres de los que se apunta a los recitales de poesía? ¿Te apetece disfrutar de un buen relato? ¿Te gustaría poder escuchar siempre que quieras a tus autores favoritos? Cuéntame un verso, la antología de textos de Verso&Cuento, te acerca a las voces de la colección en una emotiva selección con la que disfrutarás y con la que descubrirás nuevos autores. ¡Verso&Cuento también se escucha!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289449 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Hablemos de Ello Author: Jaime Arenas Saavedra Narrator: Jaime Arenas Saavedra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 11 minutes Release date: February 28, 2017 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: 'Hablemos de ello' es el tercer poemario publicado del autor, convirtiéndose en una obra que marca un antes y un después en la temática de su poesía. Como el mismo expresa, esta obra aborda un aspecto de sí mismo y del ser humano que ha sido interpretado por otras disciplinas del arte y el conocimiento, de forma científica y hasta quirúrgica. Sin embargo, la capacidad inherente al lenguaje y la estética de la poesía es la que permite la más potente forma de mirar, escudriñar e interpretar al individuo. El propio juego de palabras de su título “Hablemos de ello” expresa por un lado la necesidad del hablante lírico de abordar temas y mundos no abarcados previamente, pero también introducirse en ese concepto del psicoanálisis, el Ello, esa parte primitiva, desorganizada e innata de la personalidad, fuente de las más paradojales conductas y dolencias. ¿Quién mejor que el poeta para navegar en esos mares desbocados de lo más profundo e irracional del hombre y particularmente de sí mismo? Este libro es una invitación a la honestidad y el autoconocimiento de lo peor y lo más sublime de un ser, a través del verso y la fuerza de la palabra. Es también una revisión de aspectos tan innatos e imperfectos como el egoísmo, el amor propio, el nacionalismo, las creencias y los valores de un país como el nuestro, así como aquellos que lindan con la autocrítica a la poesía y el arte, constituyéndose en una voz de exploración y mirada interna. Todo este popurrí de temas y de particulares miradas del mundo pueden y son compartidas a través de un viaje por derroteros dolorosos y placenteros, en que el autor desnuda su estancia en el Olimpo, así como su claustro en el Reino de Hades. Quien quiera compartir este viaje deberá exigirse, al menos, la capacidad de mirarse a sí mismo.