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  The Pulley

  George Herbert

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Pulley by George Herbert. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 15th, 2008.

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  What Noise Against the Cane

  Desiree C. Bailey

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  The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey’s “poems argue for hope and faith equally… These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.”

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  Scattered Poems

  Jack Kerouac

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  Just as he upended the conventions of the novel with On the Road, Jack Kerouac revolutionized American poetry in this ingenious collection Bringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Jack Kerouac’s Scattered Poems exemplifies the Beat Generation icon’s innovative approach to language. Kerouac’s poems, populated by hitchhikers, Chinese grocers, Buddhist saints, and cultural figures from Rimbaud to Harpo Marx, evoke the primal and the sublime, the everyday and the metaphysical. Scattered Poems, which includes the playfully instructive “How to Meditate,” the sensory “San Francisco Blues,” and an ode to Kerouac’s fellow Beat Allen Ginsberg, is rich in striking images and strident urgency. Kerouac’s widespread influences feel new and fresh in these poems, which echo the rhythm of improvisational jazz music, and the centuries-old structure of Japanese haiku. In rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition, driven by concrete language with neither embellishment nor abstraction, and expressed through spontaneous, uncensored writing.

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  Learn Japanese with Stories...

  Clay Boutwell, Yumi Boutwell

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  Unlock the Power of Contextual Learning with Authentic Japanese Folktales 
  Mastering vocabulary through listening is one of the most effective ways to learn a language. With our audiobook, you not only encounter words that pique your interest, but you also understand their usage in real-life contexts. Plus, you can enjoy the stories anytime, whether you're walking the dog or washing the dishes. 
  About the Stories:ねずみの嫁入り (The Mouse Bride): Dive into this charming Japanese folktale where a mouse couple searches for the most formidable suitor for their daughter. They meet various candidates, each believed to be the most powerful, unraveling a delightful narrative on the quest for the perfect match.一休さん (The Wise Monk Ikkyu): Explore the adventures of Ikkyu-san, a sage monk known for his sharp wit. When the shogun tests him with a seemingly impossible riddle involving a painted tiger, Ikkyu's ingenious response is both enlightening and entertaining. 
  Designed for Upper Beginners: 
  These stories cater to learners who are just starting to get comfortable with Japanese. The audiobook format allows you to focus on listening and comprehension, enhancing your pronunciation and understanding of the language. 
  Bonus Content for Enhanced Learning:PDF of the Book: Each audiobook includes a PDF version of the text, so you can follow along and review the stories as needed.Convenient Listening: Enjoy the flexibility of listening to the stories without needing to follow along with a physical book.Engaging and Repetitive Narratives: Stories like The Mouse Bride offer repetition in a fun and engaging way, perfect for language learners.

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  What is the Custom of Your...

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

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  What is the Custom of Your Grief? by Timberlake Wertenbaker features an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.
  The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
  Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Rose Lewenstein and April De Angelis.

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  Old-Time Radio's Greatest Stars:...

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  Lucille Ball was an accomplished actress, comedian, model, entertainment studio executive and producer. She was the star of the self-produced TV sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life with Lucy as well as television specials aired under the title The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. She began her career in 1929 as a model, graduating to Broadway and later to films. While a contract player at RKO, she met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, and the two eloped in 1940. During radio's Golden Age, she starred in hundreds of radio programs, including her own series titled My Favorite Husband, opposite Richard Denning. In the 1950's, she ventured into television and in 1951, she and Arnaz created the sitcom I Love Lucy, a series that became one of the most beloved in television history. In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu Productions, which produced many popular series, including Mission: Impossible and Star Trek. This collection contains 10 of her popular radio performances and we hope you will Love Lucy all over again!  
   
  The Kraft Music Hall 10-7-43 w/ Bing Crosby and Lucille Ball The Abbott & Costello Show 11-18-43 w/ Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Lucille Ball Suspense 1-13-44 "Dime a Dance" w/ Lucille Ball and Hans Conried The Screen Guild Players 5/1/44 "A Night to Remember" w/ Lucille Ball and Brian Donlevy The Harold Lloyd Comedy Theatre 2/11/45 "A Girl, A Guy and a Gob" w/ Lucille Ball and George Murphy with Harold Lloyd (host) The Jimmy Durante Show 10/29/47 w/ Jimmy Durante and Lucille Ball The Kraft Music Hall 1/22/48 w/ Al Jolson and Lucille Ball The Lux Radio Theatre 3/27/50 "The Man Who Came to Dinner" w/ Lucille Ball and Clifton Webb (1-hour) My Favorite Husband 6/4/50 "George is a Slob" w/ Lucille Ball and Richard Denning The Screen Director's Playhouse 3/1/51 "A Foreign Affair" w/ Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Lucille Ball (1-hour)

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