Sword Blades and Poppy Seed: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, 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 recording of Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Amy Lowell. Read in English by Anusha Iyer; Ken Masters; Jairus Amar; Ben Adams; Lisa Reichert; Leonard Wilson; Shakira Searle; Rosslyn Carlyle; esheffield This is a volume of poems by Amy Lowell, published in 1914. "Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind." (Josephine Preston Peabody, 'The Boston Herald', 1916)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
• Author credits: Amy Lowell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 60
• Listed recording duration: 3:26:25

Opening tracks: first 24 of 60

1. 01 - Preface — 8:17
2. 02 - Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds — 25:40
3. 03 - Sword Blades - The Captured Goddess — 2:20
4. 04 - Sword Blades - The Precinct, Rochester — 4:08
5. 05 - Sword Blades - The Cyclists — 1:01
6. 06 - Sword Blades - Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window — 1:46
7. 07 - Sword Blades - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM. — 1:49
8. 08 - Sword Blades - Astigmatism — 3:26
9. 09 - Sword Blades - The Coal Picker — 3:33
10. 10 - Sword Blades - Storm-Racked — 1:23
11. 11 - Sword Blades - Convalescence — 1:19
12. 12 - Sword Blades - Patience — 1:52
13. 13 - Sword Blades - Apology — 1:43
14. 14 - Sword Blades - A Petition — 1:13
15. 15 - Sword Blades - A Blockhead — 1:27
16. 16 - Sword Blades - Stupidity — 1:29
17. 17 - Sword Blades - Irony — 1:26
18. 18 - Sword Blades - Happiness — 1:31
19. 19 - Sword Blades - The Last Quarter of the Moon — 2:48
20. 20 - Sword Blades - A Tale of Starvation — 8:00
21. 21 - Sword Blades - The Foreigner — 2:54
22. 22 - Sword Blades - Absence — 1:04
23. 23 - Sword Blades - A Gift — 0:57
24. 24 - Sword Blades - The Bungler — 0:33

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