Introducing Irony: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Introducing Irony, credited to Maxwell Bodenheim, 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 Introducing Irony by Maxwell Bodenheim. Read in English by VfkaBT Subtitled 'A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems', this collection reads years ahead of its time. Set mainly in Jazz Age New York City, the poems and tales are a series of profiles of people in seedier parts of town, along with bizarre love songs and even a trip to Mars. Not for the easily offended. ( Matt Pierard)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Introducing Irony
• Author credits: Maxwell Bodenheim
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 2:29:56

Catalogue topics

• satire
• realism
• new york city
• jazz age

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Jack Rose — 2:40
2. 02 - Seaweed From Mars — 6:50
3. 03 - Turmoil in a Morgue — 4:41
4. 04 - Condensed Novel — 3:01
5. 05 - Manners — 2:15
6. 06 - An Acrobat, A Violinist, and A Chambermaid — 3:46
7. 07 - Novel Conversation — 2:49
8. 08 - The Scrub-Woman — 2:36
9. 09 - Meditations in A Cemetery — 3:15
10. 10 - Simple Account of a Poet's Life — 4:47
11. 11 - Candid Narrative, Unliterary and Shameless — 4:05
12. 12 - Two Sonnets to My Wife — 2:03
13. 13 - Finalities, I-VIII — 8:28
14. 14 - Imaginary People, I-IV — 3:42
15. 15 - Uneasy Reflections — 1:41
16. 16 - Summer Evening - New York Subway Station — 1:52
17. 17 - Garbage Heap — 1:16
18. 18 - Impulsive Dialogue — 3:53
19. 19 - Emotional Monologue — 3:21
20. 20 - Pronounced Fantasy — 2:36
21. 21 - When Spirits Speak of Life — 3:11
22. 22 - Insanity — 8:12
23. 23 - Poetry — 8:26
24. 24 - Religion — 6:29

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