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one of the poets I talk to the most

Revisado: 11-29-22

Yeats wasn't easy or relatable to me as a young college woman learning about the early modernist poets whose work followed his, who owed so much to him really, and whose poetry was "trendier," to put it crassly. But over the years Yeats has grown deeply significant to me. He defers to Place, to Nature, to all the old stories, and to Woman (My appreciation of him didn't lessen !! when I discovered that our mother was a descendant of Bree emigrants from Sligo). And Yeats' recorded voice is in this edition, in the form of two recordings: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" has been beautifully remastered; and I hadn't yet heard him performing"The Fiddler of Dooney." All the other readers are excellent--I can guess at a few in the mix--and I do wish they all might have been credited here by name. Listen to this book. It's that troll under the mountain with his pot of rocks and gold.

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Always Beautiful

Revisado: 10-15-22

To hear the Preacher sermonize. This is not institutional religion! It is enlightenment.

--A Buddhist

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One of the earliest films ever made...

Revisado: 10-18-21

I have read it many times and listened to this recording more than once. A series of linked poems that tell a dark and beautiful, novelistic story. Repetitious, yes. Alliterative and musical, yes. Full of forest and garden, a rivulet running down a high hill overlooking the sea. As he aged, T, like the Ancient Mariner himself, would recite the entirety of Maud where dinners and dances and gatherings occurred, whenever it was requested. Apparently, sometimes when it was not asked for, he'd recite it anyway, wanting to entertain everyone wirh his theatre of a poem: sentimental, silly with Love, dripping with Death, outlandish and Sublime.

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An Essential Book

Revisado: 12-26-20

If you're into poetry, you've seen some of the poems in this prose-mixed-with-poetry-book in WCW collections and other anthologies. But listening to, or reading the entirety of Spring & All, is a completely different experience. This was WCW's main "American" response to Eliot's dystopic (and, let's face it, a bit neurotic) The Waste Land.

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I will always love him

Revisado: 08-29-20

I will always love him-- one of Murica's finest poets. Sit down & Read this too. Don't only Listen to it...

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this is magnifiicent

Revisado: 06-16-20

a mother, a musician. a widow who is strong and still living her life. a writer with the power of speech. a singer who sings to me. I only wish I could give her my black suit jacket with the red silk lining because.. she'd look great in it, even if it isn't the same as her lost black coat

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Trashy & Fantastic

Revisado: 07-24-19

I enjoyed this a lot. Bargeloads of familiar gossip, very cleverly configured around the relationship between these two sisters and their differing experiences of their emotionally deprived & materially privileged lives. As a result of this cleverness, many new and quite believable insights are offered here. That JKO was the jock & LR the culture vulture (who schooled JKO on many points) is to me the most significant insight. It carries through everything and explains circumstances, choices, scenarios. LR'ss experiences with Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and Baryshnikov add much knowledge about the time period and its travails. LR's long, well-loved life has made a book like this possible-- we're all indebted to her graciousness. A bit too much drumrolling over the "deathbed scene," but thanks, Sam & Co, for taking all the Kennedy-Radziwill road warriors on this freedom ride.

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