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To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness by Robin Coste Lewis

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569514 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569514] to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness Author: Robin Coste Lewis Narrator: Robin Coste Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 24 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: A genre-bending exploration of poetry and human migration—another revelatory expedition from the National Book Award–winning poet who changed the way we see art, the museum, and the Black female figure. • Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Twenty-five years ago, after her maternal grandmother’s death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs in an old suitcase under her bed, filled with everything from sepia tintypes to Technicolor Polaroids. Lewis’s family had survived one of the largest migrations in human history, when six million Americans fled the South, attempting to escape from white supremacy and white terrorism. But these photographs of daily twentieth-century Black life revealed a concealed, interior history. The poetry Lewis was inspired to create stands forth as an inspiring alternative to the usual ways we frame the old stories of “race” and “migration,” placing them within a much vaster span of time and history. In what she calls “an origin myth for the future,” Lewis reverses our expectations of poetry: “Black pages, black space, black time––the Big Black Bang.” From glamorous outings to graduations, birth announcements, baseball leagues, and back-porch delight, Lewis creates a lyrical documentary about Black intimacy. Instead of colonial nostalgia, she offers us “an exalted Black privacy.” What emerges is a dynamic reframing of what it means to be human and alive, with Blackness at its center. “I am trying / to make the gods / happy,” she writes. “I am trying to make the dead / clap and shout.”

[Russian] - The Hooligan's Confession (Russian Edition) by Sergey Esenin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557781 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557781] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - The Hooligan's Confession (Russian Edition) Author: Sergey Esenin Narrator: Tim Mirkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 4, 2023 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin is a Russian poet and writer. One of the largest personalities of the Silver Age. A representative of the new peasant poetry and lyrics, and in a later period of creativity - Imagism. Hooligan's Confession is one of his most complex and deepest poems. Reading artist Tim Mirkin Please note: This audiobook is in Russian

Musical Tables: Poems by Billy Collins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575816 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575816] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Musical Tables: Poems Author: Billy Collins Narrator: Billy Collins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence “Whenever I pick up a new book of poems, I flip through the pages looking for small ones. Just as I might have trust in an abstract painter more if I knew he or she could draw a credible chicken, I have faith in poets who can go short.”—Billy Collins You can spot a Billy Collins poem immediately. The amiable voice, the light touch, the sudden turn at the end. He 'puts the ‘fun’  back in profundity,” says poet Alice Fulton. In his own words, his poems tend to “begin in Kansas and end in Oz.” Now “America’s favorite poet” (The Wall Street Journal) has found a new form for his unique poetic style: the small poem. Here Collins writes about his trademark themes of nature, animals, poetry, mortality, absurdity, and love—all in a handful of lines. Neither haiku nor limerick, the small poem pushes to an extreme poetry’s famed power to condense emotional and conceptual meaning. Inspired by the small poetry of writers as diverse as William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, and Charles Simic, and written with Collins’s recognizable wit and wisdom, the poems of Musical Tables show one of our greatest poets channeling his unique voice into a new phase of his exceptional career. 3:00 AM Only my hand is asleep, but it’s a start.

And Yet: Poems by Kate Baer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573778 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573778] to listen full audiobooks. Title: And Yet: Poems Author: Kate Baer Narrator: Kate Baer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman. Kate Baer shot into the literary stratosphere with the publication of her debut poetry collection, What Kind of Woman, which became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Kate’s second full-length book of traditional poetry, And Yet, dives deeper into the themes that are the hallmarks of her writing: motherhood, friendship, love, and loss. Taken together, these poems demonstrate the remarkable evolution of a writer working at the height of her craft, pushing herself and her poetry in a beautiful and impressive way. Intimate, evocative, and bold, Kate’s beguiling poetry firmly positions her in the company of Dorianne Laux, Mary Oliver, Maggie Nelson, and other great female poets of our time.

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567325 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567325] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On Author: Franny Choi Narrator: Franny Choi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival. Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring towards the universal. As she wrestles with the daily griefs and distances of this apocalyptic world, Choi also imagines what togetherness--between Black and Asian and other marginalized communities, between living organisms, between children of calamity and conquest--could look like. Bringing together Choi's signature speculative imagination with even greater musicality than her previous work, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On ultimately charts new paths toward hope in the aftermaths, and visions for our collective survival.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.