Homer
Summary: Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMGiovanni, Nikki
Summary: The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Giovanni offers an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 GIOAtwood, Margaret
Summary: This collection of poems addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature, and, zombies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House, Ltd. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 ATWAtwood, Margaret
Summary: This collection of poems addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature, and, zombies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 811 ATWCollins, Billy.
Summary: Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares 24 of his poems and also spends some time in question and answer session where he reflects on what makes good poetry, his own process of reaching his audience as a poet, the success of his Poetry 180 programs in schools nationwide, and an amusing sidebar on his memories of growing up as an only child.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ColliFrost, Robert
Summary: Robert Frost reads from a selection of his own poetry.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FRONelson, Marilyn
Summary: George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born a slave in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver truly found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 811.54 NELSummary: "She Walks in Beauty" is Kennedy's selection of poetry that tells the story of a woman's life, including first love and lasting love; marriage, motherhood, and work; times of silence and solitude, and times of awe. The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W.H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W.S....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 SHEGiovanni, Nikki
Summary: The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Giovanni offers an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 811 GIOHomer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Parmenides Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMOvid
Summary: Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: 871.01 OVISummary: Adopting the methology of the music charts, these discs present the "top 100" poems of all time. Determined by a consensus of over 1,000 compilers and arranged in chronological order, each author's work is illuminated by notes from the editor, offering insight into the historical period in which each author lived and the author's choice of verse, form, tone, and style. Read by an emsemble of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Co. 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 821.008 CLADante Alighieri
Summary: "Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise--the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. One of the greatest works in literature, Dante's story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hovel Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 851.1 DANSummary: A collection of 81 of the world's best loved and known poems. The readings are presented in the order they appear in "The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition". Thirty-nine major poets are included from Shakespeare, Blake, and Wordsworth to Keats, the Brownings, Whitman, Dickinson and Yeats.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners Pub. Corp. 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN EIGColeridge, Samuel Taylor
Summary: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend William Wordsworth, revolutionised English poetry; in 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using 'the language of men'. They pointed the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets. Coleridge's addiction to opium affected his poetic output, and yet the handful of poems he did produce were...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN COLDean, Kim
Summary: Pete the cat loves to play hide-and-seek! When his friends hide, Pete covers his eyes and counts to 10. He opens them and just knows he will find them soon. But finding his friends may be harder than Pete thought. Are they behind a tree or on a bus? Or will Pete give up? Find out how Pete learns to chill out in this cool story full of surprises at every peek!
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: Recounts the triumphs and defeats of the Greek and Trojan heroes during the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy by combined Greek armies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 883.01 HOMVanHecke, Susan.
Summary: Tells of the Civil War's first contraband camp that began when three escaped slaves were granted protection at a Union-held fort, prompting runaway slaves to seek freedom there and build the country's first African American community.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE UNDWardlaw, Lee
Summary: A cat arrives at a shelter, arranges to go home with a good family, and settles in with them, all the while letting them know who is boss and, finally, sharing his real name.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012