Impertinent Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Impertinent Poems, credited to Edmund Vance Cooke, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke. Read in English by Scotty Smith; Dru Conway; tovarisch; Bruce Kachuk; Larry Wilson; BettyB; foursight; Kathleen Moore A Pre-Impertinence: Anticipating the intelligent critic of "Impertinent Poems," it may well be remarked that the chief impertinence is in calling them poems. Be that as it may, the editors and publishers of "The Saturday Evening Post," "Success" and "Ainslee's," and, in a lesser degree, "Metropolitan," "Independent," "Booklovers'" and "New York Herald" share with the author the reproach of first promoting their publicity. That they are now willing to further reduce their share of the burden by dividing it with the present publishers entitles them to the thanks of the author and the gratitude of the book-buying public. E.V.C.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Impertinent Poems
• Author credits: Edmund Vance Cooke
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 51
• Listed recording duration: 1:46:53

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• poem
• humour
• 1907

Opening tracks: first 24 of 51

1. 01 - Dead Men's Dust — 3:03
2. 02 - In Nineteen Hundred and Now — 2:42
3. 03 - Don't You? — 2:01
4. 04 - You Too — 2:58
5. 05 - The Eternal Everyday — 1:47
6. 06 - Don't Take Your Troubles to Bed — 1:41
7. 07 - Failure — 1:28
8. 08 - Good — 2:42
9. 09 - Let's Be Glad We're Living — 3:07
10. 10 - Success — 3:24
11. 11 - The Grill — 2:31
12. 12 - The Vision — 1:57
13. 13 - Blood is Red — 2:05
14. 14 - Diagnosis — 2:03
15. 15 - Spread Out — 1:51
16. 16 - The Dilettant — 2:09
17. 17 - The Conservative — 1:37
18. 18 - Hush — 1:53
19. 19 - The Island — 3:00
20. 20 - Humbler Heroes — 1:46
21. 21 - Conscience Pianissimo — 2:35
22. 22 - The World Runs On — 2:00
23. 23 - Pass — 1:45
24. 24 - Publicity — 2:05

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