Leaves of Grass Book V: Calamus
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39 minutes, 28 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
"Calamus" is the fifth book of Walt Whitman's legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. In these thirty-nine poems, Whitman compares "athletic love" (or love between two men) to the calamus plant, in terms of diversity and depth. It includes the poems:
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In Paths Untrodden Scented Herbage of My Breast Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand For You, O Democracy These, I, Singing in Spring Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances The Base of all Metaphysics Recorders Ages Hence When I heard at the Close of the Day Are You the New person Drawn Toward Me? Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone Not Heat Flames up and Consumes Trickle Drops City of Orgies Behold this Swarthy Face I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing To a Stranger This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful I Hear It Was Charged Against Me |
The Prairie-Grass Dividing When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame We Two Boys Together Clinging A Promise to California Here the Frailest Leaves of Me No Labor-Saving Machine A Glimpse A Leaf for Hand in Hand Earth! my Likeness! I Dream'd in a Dream What think You I take my Pen in Hand? To the East and to the West Sometimes with One I Love To a Western Boy Fast Anchor'd, Eternal O Love! Among the Multitude O You Whom I Often and Silently Come That Shadow, my Likeness Full of Life, Now |
Read by Alex Wilson. Sample contains the complete poem "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances."
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58 minutes, 39 seconds
Unabridged Free and Formal Verse Poetry Collection
1918
The 1918 "New Poems" collection by the ever controversial (sometimes-deemed "pornographic," but this collection contains only a smattering of his erotica) English writer. Includes 42 poems:
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Apprehension Coming Awake From a College Window Flapper Birdcage Walk Letter from Town: The Almond Tree Flat Suburbs, SW, in the Morning Thief in the Night Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March Suburbs on a Hazy Day Hyde Park at Night: Clerks Gipsy Two-Fold Under the Oak Sigh No More Love Storm Parliament Hill in the Evening Piccadilly Circus at Night: Street-Walkers Tarantella In Church Piano |
Embankment at Night: Charity Phantasmagoria Next Morning Palimpsest of Twilight Embankment at Night: Outcasts Winter in the Boulevard School on the Outskirts Sickness Everlasting Flowers The North Country Bitterness of Death Seven Seals Reading a Letter Twenty Years Ago Intime Two Wives Heimweh Debacle Narcissus Autumn Sunshine On That Day |
Read by Alex Wilson.
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44 minutes, 3 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
"Children of Adam" is the fourth book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman's legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. This book is among Whitman's most controversial with its celebration of sexuality. It includes the poems:
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To the Garden the World From Pent-up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Madness and Joy |
We Two--How Long We were Fool’d Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd Native Moments Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City Facing West from California’s Shores Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals O Hymen! O Hymenee! As Adam, Early in the Morning |
Read by Alex Wilson.
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2 hours, 20 minutes
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
"Song of Myself" is the longest and most famous book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman's legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. Song of Myself is a longform poem in 52 parts. Read by Alex Wilson.
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45 minutes, 56 seconds
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1913
A Boy's Will is the first poetry collection by Robert Frost. Includes 32 poems, painting pictures of New England and tackling Frost's famously grand themes of isolation, death, coming of age (in literature and in life), and the world's natural spirituality.
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Part I: Into My Own Ghost House My November Guest Love and a Question A Late Walk Stars Storm Fear Wind and Window Flower To a Thawing Wind A Prayer in Spring Flower-Gathering Rose Pagonias Asking for Rosas Waiting--Afield at Dusk In a Vale A Dream Pang In Neglect The Vantage Point Mowing Going for Water |
Part II Revelation The Trial by Existence In Equal Sacrifice The Tuft of Flowers Spoils of the Dead Pan with Us The Demiurge's Laugh Part III Now Close the Windows A Line-Storm Song October My Butterfly Reluctance |
Read by Alex Wilson. Free MP3 Sample below includes full recording of "My November Guest."
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2 hours, 15 minutes
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1916
This complete collection includes the Telltale Weekly recordings of all 7 volumes of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems, originally sold individually as
- Chicago Poems - 55 poems - 65 minutes
- Handfuls - 11 poems - 4 minutes
- War Poems 1914-1915 - 11 poems - 11 minutes
- The Road and the End - 11 poems, 10 minutes
- Fogs and Fires - 28 poems - 17 minutes
- Shadows - 9 poems - 6 minutes
- Other Days (1900-1910) - 23 poems - 22 minutes
Read by Alex Wilson.
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1 hour, 19 minutes
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1907
Thirty-four accessible, adventurous poems including the famous narrative oft-memorized poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee." This collection has also been published as "Songs of a Sourdough."
Read by Craig R Currier. Complete audiobook collection includes:
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The Land God Forgot The Spell of the Yukon The Heart of the Sourdough The Three Voices The Law of the Yukon The Parson's Son The Call of the Wild The Lone Trail The Pines The Lure of Little Voices The Song of the Wage Slave Grin The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Cremation of Sam McGee My Madonna Unforgotten |
The Reckoning Quatrains The Men that Don't Fit In Music in the Bush The Rhyme of the Remittance Man The Low-Down White The Little Old Log Cabin The Younger Son The March of the Dead Fighting Mac The Woman and the Angel The Rhyme of the Restless Ones New Year's Eve Comfort The Harpy Premonition The Tramps L'Envoi |
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2 hours, 40 minutes
Unabridged Formal Verse Poetry
1609
A complete reading of Shakespeare's 154 timeless sonnets, composed between 1593 and 1601. Read by Alex Wilson.
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25 minutes, 8 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry
1855
The second book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman's legendary Leaves of Grass. "Starting from Paumanok" is a longform poem in 19 parts. Read by Alex Wilson.
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33 minutes, 59 seconds
Unabridged Speculative Poetry
1990
An 18-poem audio chapbook by the Grand Master of Science Fiction Poetry. Read by the author and set to music by Jack Poley. Features the 1985 Rhysling Award Winner "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets" and Rhysling Award Nominees "The FTL Addict Fixes" (1984), and "The Evolution of the Death Murals" (1986).
The poems in this collection first appeared in Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal SF, Berkely Poets Cooperative, Lost Roads, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, StarLine, Velocities, and Weird Tales. Full list...
The Alchemist Is Born in a Sudden Changing of SeasonsSF Poetry (sometimes called "Speculative Poetry," sometimes called "Science Fiction Poetry") explores similiar themes and poses similiar "What if?" questions usually associated with science fiction and fantasy prose.
The Alchemist in Transit
The Alchemist Discovers a Universal Solvent
A Thousand Faces
The Alchemist Among Us
And Soon a Wolf For Every Door
Mean Time 2000
Beyond Procreation
The Beserker Enters a Plea
The Evolution of the Death Murals
The Eyes of the Pilot
The Star Drifter Grounded
The FTL Addict Fixes
For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets
From the Double Ruins of Helix
Against the Ebon Rush of Night
The Knowledge at Londrai
Luminaries
Wired Magazine has commended Boston for having "uncommon grace and clarity of vision. Boston writes with the voice of a poet, the heart of a bodhisattva, and the unblinking eye of an investigative reporter."
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19 minutes, 12 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry
1855
The first book (of 35 total) of Walt Whitman's legendary Leaves of Grass. Contains 24 poems including...
One's Self I SingThe free sample audio of this recording contains the full poem: "I Hear America Singing." Read by Alex Wilson.
As I Ponder'd in Silence
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
To Foreign Lands
To a Historian
To Thee Old Cause
Eidolons
For Him I Sing
When I Read the Book
Beginning My Studies
Beginners
To the States
On Journeys Through the States
To a Certain Cantatrice
Me Imperturbe
Savantism
The Ship Starting
I Hear America Singing
What Place is Besieged
Still Though the One I Sing
Shut Not Your Doors
Poets to Come
To You
Thou Reader
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