Trees and Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Trees and Other Poems, credited to Joyce Kilmer, 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 Trees and Other Poems, by Joyce Kilmer. Read by Phil Chenevert "I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is presd against the sweet earth's flowing breast ...". Almost all of us, including myself of course, have heard and enjoyed those famous words which begin Kilmer's poem, Trees. There is even a National Forest in the United States named in honor of this poem. Here is a recording of the entire book of poems in which it was first published in 1914. Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for this short poem but he was a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. While most of his works are largely unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I (1914–1918), Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc . He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous "Fighting 69th") in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, who later became a poet and author in her own right, with whom he had five children.(Summary Wikipedia and Phil Chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Trees and Other Poems
• Author credits: Joyce Kilmer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 49:35

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• kilmer
• trees
• poem

Track guide

1. 1 - Trees * To My Mother * The Twelve Forty-Five * Pennies * Stars * Old Poets — 11:09
2. 2 - Delicatessen * Servant Girl and Grocer's Boy * Wealth * Martin * The Apartment House — 9:54
3. 3 - As Winds That Blow Against A Star * St. Laurence * To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself * Memorial Day * The Rosary — 5:57
4. 4 - Vision * To Certain Poets * Love's Lantern * St. Alexis * Folly — 6:38
5. 5 - Madness * Poets * Citizen of the World * To a Blackbird and His Mate Who Died in the Spring * The Fourth Shepherd — 7:40
6. 6 - Easter * Mount Houvenkopf * The House with Nobody in It * Dave Lilly * Alarm Clocks * Waverley — 8:18

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