Poetry audiobooks

The Inferno

By: Dante

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet.

“The Hollanders … act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us through the Italian text that is printed on the facing... Read more

Perfecto Pet Show (Bobs and Tweets #2)

By: Pepper Springfield

Narrated by: George Newbern & Stephanie Drake

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Something is brewing at Bonefish Street Elementary school...Get ready for one perfecto school pet show with the Bobs and Tweets!Dean Bob and Lou Tweet can't wait to perform in the first-ever Bonefish Street Elementary School Pet Show. They've practiced their performances over and over again, and together with their pets, they're ready to... Read more

Guidebook to Relative Strangers

By: Camille T. Dungy

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

As a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel, Camille T. Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant, then a toddler. As they travel, Dungy is intensely aware of how they are seen, not just as mother and child but as black females. With a poet's eye, she celebrates the particular in the universal, such as a child's... Read more

My Very Own Words

By: Derrinique Elliott

Narrated by: Joanna Henning

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of poetry features one original example of fifteen different types of poems. Each poem is listed with its type and the literary elements used in it. Read more

Emotional Rollercoaster

By: D.A. Hopkins

Narrated by: Francie Wyck

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This is different to your everyday collection of poems about love, heartache, God, humanity, addiction and don t forget to throw in a little joy too. I have also been able to take a moment and add my own little twist to a subject, it will make you change the way you see the simple things in life. The way two people see something can be totally... Read more

From Despair to Hop - Abridged

By: Barbara Mezera

Narrated by: Robin Rowan

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Life is a journey, different for everyone. Yet we all deal with problems and joys on this journey. I reflected on my journey in poetry. As I slowly shared my poetry with others, they insisted that I share it with a wider audience. I never felt my poetry was that good or that important, but every time I shared it, it seemed to touch the people... Read more

Los Versos del Capitán

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Gerardo Prat & Jane Santos

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Pablo Neruda, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura, terminó de escribir Los versos del Capitán en 1952 mientras estaba en el exilio en la isla de Capri, paradisíaco escenario de la exitosa película Il Postino. Rodeada por el mar, el sol y los esplendores naturales de Capri, Neruda dirigió estos poemas a su amante Matilde Urrutia antes de... Read more

Locura Exquisita

By: Denni Zú

Narrated by: Denni Zú

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Mi antología, compilar todas mis emociones expresadas en poemas, batirlas en un montón de hojas mezclando mi rabia por una sociedad indolente, las ganas de querer seducir a la vida sin importar los roles ya escritos de esa forma, la perfección se escapa de mi puño derramando impulsividad de lo incoherente, querer encontrar una línea en mi... Read more

Tangled Words

By: Rima Jbara

Narrated by: Madeline Wager

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

I was born to create an affair between a pen and a paper. Make then flirt with one another. Make them fall in love with each other. I was born to write forever. What I write may not all be masterpieces. But these are my words. They murmur in my ears. They glisten my sight. They mesmerize my senses. I am caught up in thse books. Trapped in my... Read more

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun

By: Angela Jackson

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A look back at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her hundredth birthday

Artist–Rebel–Pioneer

Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including... Read more

Hope

By: Rima Jbara

Narrated by: Melanie Taylor

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Hope is about a woman who lives in a drowned world and is going through a silent ruin, and finds comfort in believing that her own self exists as another being, and confides her inner most secrets to her. It all started with a dream, advancing to a nightmare that then became a reality. Hope plays a lonely game in silence until her dreams turn to... Read more

The Virgin of Bennington

By: Kathleen Norris

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The book her devoted readers have been waiting for. At last, New York Times betselling author Kathleen Norris's first continuous narrative . . .a story of sex, drugs, and poetry. After spending her high school years in Hawaii, Kathleen Norris was woefully unprepared for Bennington College in the 1960s, with its culture of drugs, sex, and... Read more

Inspired Poetry

By: Sylvia Blyth

Narrated by: Joanna Henning

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The poems in this book were all written by Sylvia and were taken from life in general. Things that happened to her or her friends, news on the television or radio. Sylvia was a spiritualist and many of her poems reflect this. I miss her very much, James Blyth. (Husband). Read more

Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Gerardo Prat

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924, cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Canción Desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora sociedad chilena debido a su franco retrato de la relación del autor con dos mujeres. Se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las... Read more

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

Narrated by: Warsan Shire

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What elevates teaching my mother how to give birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the... Read more

The Essential Neruda

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: C. S. Verdád

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a hundred years after his birth, Pablo Neruda’s poetry is as vital and beloved as ever.This collection presents fifty of the most essential poems by one of history’s greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world’s leading Neruda scholars.A... Read more

Un Pueblo fuera del Mapa

By: José Hogas

Narrated by: José Hogas

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Y si estoy aquí, No es porque sé caminar o porque al norte Le brillan los ojos, el corazón no sabe de Esas cosas, y esta vez, yo lo he seguido... Aquí estoy Y desconozco la forma en que me pasa, Podría lastimarme horas y horas, Y aunque las palomas, y aunque el tren Ruidoso de mi pueblo intente despertarme, No conseguirían más que atarme De pies... Read more

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By: Chen Chen

Narrated by: Chen Chen

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

WINNER OF THE THOM GUNN AWARD FOR GAY POETRY

WINNER OF THE GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARD

WINNER OF THE A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE

A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2017 SELECTION: POETRY & LITERATURE

ON NPR BOOKS'S LIST OF "POETRY TO PAY ATTENTION TO: 2017'S BEST VERSE"

In this ferocious and tender debut,... Read more

Pink Mist

By: Owen Sheers

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard, Robert K. Benson, Andrew Fallaize...

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of I Saw a Man comes a powerful drama in verse that captures both the trauma of modern warfare and the difficulty of transitioning back to normal life after combat.In early 2008, three young friends from Bristol decide to join the army and are deployed to the conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time the three men... Read more

Poemas de Amor

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Gerardo Prat

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Cargados de sensualidad y pasión, los poemas de amor de Pablo Neruda son los más célebres de la obra del premio Nobel, cautivando a los lectores con imágenes terrestres y disfrutando de un fuego re-imaginación del mundo. Sobre todo por escrito en la paradisíaca isla de Capri (el entorno idílico de la película ganadora del Oscar Il Postino)... Read more

The Captain’s Verses

By: Pablo Neruda

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, finished writing The Captain’s Verses in 1952 while in exile on the island of Capri―the paradisiacal setting for the blockbuster film Il Postino (The Postman). Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri’s natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia before they were... Read more

How Did This Happen?

By: Mary D. Esselman & Elizabeth Ash Vélez

Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Karissa Vacker, Erin Bennett &...

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling authors of The Hell with Love, a fierce, funny, touching collection that takes the sting out of "aging while female." Read more

Lift Off

By: Donovan Livingston

Narrated by: Donovan Livingston

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational rallying call about education, race, and the true nature of equality—the Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation speech praised as “powerful” by Hillary Rodham Clinton in Teen Vogue and “inspired” by Justin Timberlake.

In emotionally charged spoken-word poetry, Livingston shares a message of hope and hard truths,... Read more

Faith, Family & Friends

By: Jeff Hauk & Ken Hauk

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This book consists of inspiring poems inspired by real-life experiences.This book is available in E-book, Softcover and Hardcover. For Hardcover orders, please call Toll Free: +1-888-795-4274 or visit www.xlibris.com.   Read more