Petals: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Petals, credited to Amy Lowell, 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 volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Petals by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 27, 2011. Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Lowell was born into Brookline's prominent Lowell family, sister to astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell. She never attended college because her family did not consider that proper for a woman, but she compensated with avid reading and near-obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and travelled widely, turning to poetry in 1902 after being inspired by a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe. In the post-World War II years, Lowell, like other women writers, was largely forgotten, but with the renaissance of the women's movement in the 1970s, women's studies brought her back to light. According to Heywood Broun, however, Lowell personally argued against feminism. Her poem, “Petals” is published in her collection A Dome of Many-Colored Glass (1912). (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Bob Gonzalez)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Petals
• Author credits: Amy Lowell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 15:20

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• instruction
• nature
• philosophy

Track guide

1. Petals - Read by AMB — 0:55
2. Petals - Read by BG — 1:03
3. Petals - Read by CC — 0:52
4. Petals - Read by DL — 0:59
5. Petals - Read by GC — 1:00
6. Petals - Read by GHS — 1:01
7. Petals - Read by JCM — 1:00
8. Petals - Read by JS — 0:57
9. Petals - Read by LAH — 1:06
10. Petals - Read by LKP — 1:00
11. Petals - Read by LLW — 1:10
12. Petals - Read by MG — 1:17
13. Petals read by RK — 1:01
14. Petals - Read by RN — 1:12
15. Petals - Read by RSS — 0:54

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