Poetry Miscellany 01: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Poetry Miscellany 01, credited to Various, 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:

A LibriVox collection of 20 poems, personally selected by the reader. Read by Alan Davis Drake. Links to the individual online text sources may be found on the Librivox catalogue page for this project. As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wonder what significance they have to us now. There were other poems we've met along the way as well: some held no appeal while others were forgotten. And there were others we never had the opportunity to meet. This selection hopes to go beyond the experience of meeting old friends and on top opening the door to new ones — poems that might relate more significantly to our current lives. Originally titled "Personal Poems for Later Years," this collection gestures towards poems that ask us to slow down some we can consider them more deeply than before — no matter our age. Each time we read a good poem it brings with it a different meaning. Meeting a poem with an open ear, be it old friend or new, we can find its deeper significance. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Poetry Miscellany 01
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 31:02

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• collections

Track guide

1. 01 - After Writing Poetry — 1:06
2. 02 - An Agnostic Hymn — 2:17
3. 03 - Battle-Hymn of the Republic — 2:05
4. 04 - Blake — 0:49
5. 05 - The Burning Babe — 1:57
6. 06 - A Day — 1:01
7. 07 - The Dead — 1:20
8. 08 - Had I A Heart for Falsehood Framed — 1:16
9. 09 - The Inner Vision — 1:28
10. 10 - A Likeness - Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome — 3:19
11. 11 - The Lonely Death — 1:06
12. 12 - The New Birth — 1:16
13. 13 - An Old Negro Asleep — 1:14
14. 14 - On the Road to the Sea — 4:41
15. 15 - The Peddler — 1:36
16. 16 - Remorse for the Dead — 1:28
17. 17 - Sunday in a Certain City Suburb — 1:22
18. 18 - Three Dimensions — 1:06
19. 19 - To a Man — 1:03
20. 20 - The Vagabond in the Park — 1:08

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