World Poetry

Scritti tra il 1818 e 1836, i Canti raccolgono la produzione poetica di Giacomo Leopardi. Questo audiolibro comprende All'Italia, Il passero solitario, L'infinito, La sera del dì di festa, Alla luna, La vita solitaria, A Silvia, Le ricordanze, Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia, La quiete dopo la tempesta, Il sabato del villaggio, Il pensiero dominante, Amore e Morte e La ginestra o il fiore del deserto.

The 55 minutes you spend listening to this audiobook can be magical. Some of these stories and ponderings will be understood clearly, while others may elude you, but not to worry, you will want to listen several times, and the meaning will come to you. Like all great writing, these stories will remain with you.

Kendra DeColo reaffirms the action of mothering as heroic, brutal, and hardcore. These poems interrogate patriarchal narratives about childbirth, postpartum healing, and motherhood through the lens of pop culture and the political zeitgeist. With references ranging from Courtney Love to Lana Del Rey to Richard Burton to Nicolas Cage, I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World revitalizes the way we look at mothering: pushing its boundaries and reclaiming one's spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy.

I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things is a book of poetic prose, musings, short stories and biro drawings detailing a selection of the Earth’s incredible things by award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton. Unique, enchanting and utterly life-affirming, this is a collection that comes together to create the opposite of the news, becoming the tonic for the complicated gin that is the world we find ourselves in today.

This thoughtfully crafted anthology is perfect for children new to verse and for young poetry fans seeking out new favourites. Explore poetry from a diverse selection of contemporary and historical poets, covering a broad range of topics - from personal subjects like emotions and family, to the wonders of the natural environment. Carefully selected works encourage children to see the poetry in everything and to embrace the beauty of their everyday lives.

Based on personal memories and family oral history, Whitacre’s debut collection of sixteen poems traces the life and legacy of a family matriarch, his paternal great-grandmother, Jennie Hicks. The daughter of American pioneers, she marries a successful farmer, bearing him three girls, seeing them all married, only to outlive him and the farm.

Haiku, and those poems inspired by them, attempt to realize the essence of a moment simply, directly, and creatively. Haiku represent a beautiful combination of presence and transcendence, of wonder and realization, through the crystallization of an instant in time. With two hundred sixty haiku and haiku-inspired poems, Swaying Branches, Rustling Leaves offers insightful observations of everyday and uncommon moments presented with humor, joy, and clarity. Ranging from the traditional to flexible verse, this book explores the simple marvel and delight present in the world in and around us if...

"Your flowers are no longer his take them back reclaim them and let them blossom into its true self first water and give them the sunlight of healing they need then look at the beauty and embrace the change." Surviving a night of horrible violence through human trafficking, Grace now shares her poetry uncovered through the unfortunate event. Pouring her heart out through her pen, she shares the suffering, pain, beauty, and love, that is surviving and healing.

Travel across oceans and discover the vengeful wrath of a river god in Kayo Chingonyi's West African tale. Soar too close to the sun with Inua Ellam's timely story of a young refugee girl. Fly to a mysterious castle inhabited by a cursed prince with Helen Mort's retelling of 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon'. Uncover the truth of #Bluebeard with Joelle Taylor's modernised fairy tale. Look to the constellations with Will Harris' futuristic Greek tragedy, and never, ever answer to your name in Malika Booker's Trinidadian re-creation of the douen.

WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.

A poem about why everybody loves L.A. Sun, beach, loud colors, beautiful people, and sundresses. Cool cars, the Sunset Strip and sunshine against a crystal blue sky!

The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the 14th century Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in Middle English by Robert Ross.

This book of poetry is from a fictional character call Heidi. She is one of three main protagonists from the Blue Ring Assassins book series. As part of her character development in her down time she would right poetry, some of which are included in the books. The three girls became very close, Heidi took great pleasure from the company of Hannah and Petra, listening to their stories of days gone by. These poem’s, follow Heidi’s life as she struggled through some difficult times during WWII. Each poem depicting a certain timeline starting with the onset of war, ending with her demise. ...

Reversible World addresses threats to our planet and its ecosystem. It is a courageous, Whitmanesque, passionate audiobook that urgently concerns itself with time, hope, climate change, science, mythology, and history.

Oriol nació en Cuba, pero vive en Santa Bárbara, California, donde no logra encontrar su sitio. Sin embargo, pasa muchos buenos momentos cuando ayuda a sus padres en la clínica veterinaria de la familia, donde cuidan animales heridos. La primera ganadora latinoamericana de un Premio Nobel de Literatura, la poeta Gabriela Mistral, se muda entonces a Santa Bárbara, y Oriol se dscrube confesándole que aspira a ser escritora. Cuando la jovencita descubra que alguien está amenazando la vida de un pequeño elefante en la clínica de sus padres, decide tomar acción para protegerlo.

The White Falcon, through her life journey, was treated differently by society for seeing the wrong things people saw and assumed as right. Although she felt cut off and alone, that didn't stop her from her journey to help enlighten people and help them see that what they assumed as right was wrong.

Home. A simple word; a loaded one. You can say it in a whisper; you can say it in a cry. Expressed in the voices of father and daughter, you can hear a visceral longing, in poems and prose, for an ideal place. A place never to be found again. Imagine the shock, imagine the sadness when a daughter discovers her father’s work, the poetry he had never shared with anyone during the last two decades of his life. Six years after that moment of discovery, which happened in her childhood home while mourning for his passing, Uvi Poznansky presents a tender tribute: a collection of poems and prose,...

Бичом Божьим прозвали когда-то обезумевшие от ужаса римляне великого завоевателя — царя гуннов Аттилу, буквально швырнувшего Европу под копыта коней своих бесчисленных степных орд. Детству и юности этого незаурядного военачальника посвящена одноименная повесть Замятина, написанная колоритно, увлекательно, ярко и образно. Помимо "Бича Божьего", в сборник входят также рассказы, написанные Замятиным в мрачную эпоху революции и первых постреволюционных лет, – рассказы, демонстрирующие самые разные грани его выдающегося таланта прозаика, – от дикой сатиры до поэтичного лиризма, от жесткого реализма до философской притчи.

To see the world through the eyes of the child's eye. This is the challenge of any good poetry.

La realizzazione di questa Commedia di Dante si deve al contributo appassionato di diversi attori:Ivano Marescotti ha prestato la sua voce profonda...