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A Poetry Channel
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Readings of poems, I guess. My name is Lori. If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me a cup of coffee : buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_apoetrychannel
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~Joseph Campbell, Sake & Satori
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"It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience."
~Joseph Campbell, Sake & Satori
I am under no obligation to uphold the average RUclips troll's grand tradition
of giving people who provide them with free content a load of shit.
You don't like something? What do I care?
I have no idea who the hell you are.
No way of qualifying your opinion and no interest in doing so.
Hit the back button, buddy, navigate out of here,
but spare me the invective because all you will have accomplished
is being blocked and getting your comments deleted.
My channel is not city hall. It is my Queendom.
Of course, the trolls will love this warning.
But that's okay, my ban hammer is strong.
Let's give them some much needed attention.
Blood Meridian Chapter 1 (excerpt) by Cormac McCarthy read by A Poetry Channel
Brutal and bleak, Blood Meridian is regarded by many as Cormac McCarthy’s magnum opus, and some go as far as anointing it one of the greatest American novels of all time. An epic western, it explores the violence suffered by Americans and Indians along the Texas-Mexican border in the mid-19th century. The disregard for life and law on both sides of the law reflects ill on humanity’s destiny, and who among us might control its fate. Other than an excerpt of All The Pretty Horses I recorded for good friend and supporter Britton Hall, I've read no McCarthy. I liked the title of this novel best out of all his work, so I decided to start reading this one. I'm not sure, however, that I will con...
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Edge by Sylvia Plath read by A Poetry Channel
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Another poem from Ariel... "Edge" is thought to be the final poem Sylvia Plath wrote. Dated February 5, 1963, six days before her death, "Edge" has been read by many critics as a reflection of her despair and suicidal thoughts. It depicts an eerie scene in which a mother and her two children lie dead beneath a staring, indifferent moon. Though the speaker claims the deaths are "nothing to be sa...
Infinite Jest Pt 36 by David Foster Wallace read by A Poetry Channel
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“There's a noise like the historical sum of all cafeteria accidents everywhere.” The next installment (pgs 337-342) of my audiobook for this novel... the world's most complex game (Eschaton) comes to a sudden halt with Lord of the Flies-like flourish at ye olde tennis academy. The Decemberists created a fantastic video for their “Calamity Song” which they dedicated to DFW's Infinite Jest, I use...
The Duino Elegies Fifth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke read by A Poetry Channel
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The Duino Elegies is a series of impassioned monologues coming to terms with human existence’s limitations and fragmentations in the overwhelming face of our fleeting ephemeral glimpses of the true transcendental beauty of Nature, life, love and death… it delves into the various aspects of the human condition. Novelist Hermann Hesse describes Rilke as evolving into his best poetry with the Duin...
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath read by A Poetry Channel
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I’ve been feeling very Sylviaplathish lately, and find myself reading and recording poems from Sylvia Plath’s posthumous collection, Ariel. Bill Evans’ Waltz in B Minor is accompanying the reading as well as clips from L'Enfer with the glorious Romy Schneider, among other images, including Edvard Munch's The Vampire. If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me...
Celebrating The 67th Anniversary of Kerouac's On The Road, Chapter One read by A Poetry Channel
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"But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on...
Daddy by Sylvia Plath read by A Poetry Channel
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It’s a thin line between love and hate… "Daddy" was written on October 12th, 1962, a month after Plath had separated from her husband and moved-with their two small children-from their home in Devon to a flat in London. Four months later, Plath was dead, but she wrote some of her best poems during that turbulent period. The death of her father when she was eight left Sylvia Plath - in the words...
Heart of Darkness Chapter 2, Pt 1 by Joseph Conrad read by A Poetry Channel
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My reading of this audiobook continues... In 1890, at the age of 32, Conrad was appointed by a Belgian trading company to serve on one of its steamers. While sailing up the Congo River from one station to another, the captain became ill and Conrad assumed command. He guided the ship up the tributary Lualaba River to the trading company's innermost station, Kindu, in Eastern Congo Free State; Ma...
Crime and Punishment, Part 3, Chapters 3 & 4 by Fyodor Dostoevsky read by A Poetry Channel
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My audiobook continues for one of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Drawing upon experiences from his own prison days, the author recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, an...
Dracula Chapter 18 by Bram Stoker read by A Poetry Channel
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The next installment in my audiobook for this gothic classic... If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me a cup of coffee : buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_apoetrychannel Dracula is an epistolary novel that needs no introduction. Everyone is familiar with the story, its structure, and its various adaptations to film and stage - not to mention the ensuing vampire ...
Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke read by A Poetry Channel
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The magnificent lyricism of Rilke in one bite-sized portion. I will continue recording the Duino Elegies, but well... with The Perseids and all... I simply couldn't resist this.: Falling Stars Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes-do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countle...
The Book of Disquiet Pt 50 by Fernando Pessoa read by A Poetry Channel
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My audiobook continues with sections 154-166 - filled with musings that feel like they were torn right out of my own heart. Philip Glass' Metamorphoses is the track and I have included film from Bauhaus and Dada daddies Hans Richter, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray among other more recent experimental filmmakers. If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me a cup o...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway read by A Poetry Channel
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Ernest Hemingway first published this compelling story in 1936 with Esquire Magazine. He subsequently said to biographer A.E. Hotchner in Papa Hemingway, “By the time I finished writing ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro,’ I had put into it the material of four novels, distilled and compressed, nothing held back. I had declared to win with it. It took me a long time to write a short story after that bec...
Dracula Chapter 17 by Bram Stoker read by A Poetry Channel
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The next installment in my audiobook for this gothic classic... If you enjoy my readings and would like to support the channel, you can buy me a cup of coffee : buymeacoffee.com/lorigomez_apoetrychannel Dracula is an epistolary novel that needs no introduction. Everyone is familiar with the story, its structure, and its various adaptations to film and stage - not to mention the ensuing vampire ...
A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway read by A Poetry Channel
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1933; it was also included in his collection Winner Take Nothing (1933). James Joyce once remarked: "He [Hemingway] has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?...It is masterly. In...
Dracula Chapter 16 by Bram Stoker read by A Poetry Channel
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Dracula Chapter 16 by Bram Stoker read by A Poetry Channel
Mexico City Blues Pt 10 by Jack Kerouac read by A Poetry Channel
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Mexico City Blues Pt 10 by Jack Kerouac read by A Poetry Channel
A Poem Beginning With A Line From Pindar by Robert Duncan read by A Poetry Channel
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A Poem Beginning With A Line From Pindar by Robert Duncan read by A Poetry Channel
The Book of Disquiet Pt 49 by Fernando Pessoa read by A Poetry Channel
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The Book of Disquiet Pt 49 by Fernando Pessoa read by A Poetry Channel
All The Pretty Horses (Excerpt) by Cormac McCarthy read by A Poetry Channel
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All The Pretty Horses (Excerpt) by Cormac McCarthy read by A Poetry Channel
Dracula Chapter 15 by Bram Stoker read by A Poetry Channel
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Dracula Chapter 15 by Bram Stoker read by A Poetry Channel
The Duino Elegies: Fourth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke read by A Poetry Channel
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The Duino Elegies: Fourth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke read by A Poetry Channel
Heart of Darkness, Chapter 1, Pt 2 by Joseph Conrad read by A Poetry Channel
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Heart of Darkness, Chapter 1, Pt 2 by Joseph Conrad read by A Poetry Channel
Mexico City Blues Pt 9 by Jack Kerouac read by A Poetry Channel
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Mexico City Blues Pt 9 by Jack Kerouac read by A Poetry Channel
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes read by A Poetry Channel
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The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes read by A Poetry Channel
Excerpt from August Notebook: A Death by Robert Hass read by A Poetry Channel
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Excerpt from August Notebook: A Death by Robert Hass read by A Poetry Channel
Dracula Chapter 14 by Bram Stoker read by A Poetry Channel
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Dracula Chapter 14 by Bram Stoker read by A Poetry Channel
Heart of Darkness, Chapter 1, Pt 1 by Joseph Conrad read by A Poetry Channel
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Heart of Darkness, Chapter 1, Pt 1 by Joseph Conrad read by A Poetry Channel
I Love The Dark Hours Of My Being by Rainer Maria Rilke read by A Poetry Channel
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I Love The Dark Hours Of My Being by Rainer Maria Rilke read by A Poetry Channel
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway read by A Poetry Channel
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway read by A Poetry Channel
So glad you're doing this one !
Listening from a tug boat somewhere on the Sargasso Sea.
Are you really?!?!?! Wow! Have a fantastic trip!
@@APoetryChannel thank you, I am. Bound for Philadelphia from Puerto Rico.
Thank you, greatest book ever after infinite jest.
My favourite novel of all time
Wow. This is a nice surprise! Love this novel.
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Fascinating stories of Echo and Narcissus ... and very clever special effects! Bra--vo!
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Deeply affecting! As per your usual standard you have palpated the beating heart of the work, and found that sense resignation within and between the words.
No, Sylvia Plath didn't kill her children, but she very nearly killed the man with the flat downstairs (Trevor Thomas) whose bedroom was flooded with carbon monoxide seeping down through Sylvia's floor. I've never been convinced that being suicidal yourself is a fair defence against being reckless with other folks' lives. But it's possible my view of Plath's poetry is jaundiced through having known Al Alvarez (very slightly) in the early 1970s (around the time he was writing The Savage God). Plath's suicide blighted Dr Alvarez' life, he deserved better than that.
Well. let's get a ouija board, shall we? Summons her spirit, then have her arrested for reckless endangerment.
@@APoetryChannel 'Birthday Letters' is probably the loveliest elegy in English since Henry King's 'Exequy'. I think Sylvia wins whatever happens.
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oops did I miss thie aniversary reading, my apologies to Jack and of course you APoetryChannel, thanks so much!
Yes yes yes! Wonderful, Lori! I did not know anything about the Picasso or the Amazing Kremos Family Acrobats connections, that's absolutely fascinating.
“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.” -David Foster Wallace
"Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." ~Ambrose Bierce "The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton Now Bierce enjoyed being contrarian, so it is difficult to ascertain what his real thoughts are about voting, and Chesterton's point is an excellent observation, you should only vote with your whole mind, heart and soul, not mindlessly based on memes and propaganda, but voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. I am not the first to say this, but I believe it wholeheartedly. So if my sitting on my hands and refusing to cast a ballot for one of two horrific choices is destroying this republic? Maybe this republic deserves to be destroyed.
I realize that Plath’s marriage is infected with all sorts of controversy and perceived through and/or reinforce by our own sociological views but the book by Diane Middlebrook , ‘Her Husband, Ted Hughes &Sylvia Plath Marriage’ , does a fine and objective job in accessing the impact this marriage had on these two individuals’ lives and on their art
The only people who can accurately assess Plath and Hughes relationship and its effect on their art is Plath and Hughes and both are dead - neither one would be objective, however.
@@APoetryChannel Well said ! It’s a truism for every relationship.
So, I've got this far now in my readings along with you of the Zenith translation of The Book of Disquiet. I checked out your channel too, marvellous stuff! I first came across Pessoa some years ago in the orchards of Kent in Southern England where I'd made friends with three ladies from Lisbon who were over to pick apples for the Summer, which was how I would spend my Summers back then and would invite them at weekends to stay at my crazy huge house in East London where I lived with a bunch of other people (we are still in touch those ladies and I). They found out I was writing poetry and gifted me a selected Pessoa in English, beautifully translated by Jonathon Griffin. I became enamoured and fascinated! As you have, I often quote to myself these lines from Caeiro I have no ambitions or wants. To be a poet is no ambition of mine. It is my way of staying alone. This resonates so much with me as one of my favourite 20th century poets, Patrick Kavanagh, had written in the Author's Note to his Collected Poems (1964) 'I would not object if some critic said I wasn't a poet at all. Indeed, trying to think of oneself as a poet is a peculiar business. What does it feel like to be a poet? I am always shy of calling myself a poet and I wonder much at those young men and sometimes those old men who boldly declare their poeticality. If you ask them what they are, they say: Poet.' But yet, I continue to turn out verses ... I look forward to hearing more of you on your channel and I'll get you that coffee sometime! All good wishes from Old London Town, Mick Maphari (Which is an invented name by the way haha!)
Such a good rendition. Read much in the way I read it to myself aloud... (though mine lacks the sweet sounds of the Portuguese names, spoken as they should be) I'm calming myself with my own voice and yours, albeit disquietly.
Jove and Juno--just like an old married mortal couple: one a philanderer, the other a vindictive nag. Humorous!
It's impossible to stop watching pieces like this one, once started. Perfect dreamlike imagery, perfect music background, exquisite voice for another haunting piece. I just bought Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar" because of your readings.
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Just as an aside, I used the Lumiere Brothers' footage of the The Amazing Kremos Family Acrobats... I am almost certain this was the troupe Rilke saw that haunted his imagination all those years before he wrote this fifth elegy www.circopedia.org/Kremo_Family
beautiful as always💌
Required HS reading
Lori, I wanted to express just how gorgeous these recordings are, and especially how marvelous they are with Glass's Metamorphoses behind some of them!!! It is one of my favorite works of modern classical music, and fits perfectly with Pessoa's beautiful fractured identities. (I'm also pretty sure this is Branka Parlic's version of the Metamorphoses? It is my fave of them all!) It is also mixed very well, without overpowering the prose. It's a great example of just how unique and rare your readings are, giving voice to so many outstanding writers whose works have been conspicuously, and strangely, ignored by other great youtubers. Your work is one of a kind, Ms. Lori 😀. Thank you!
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Very deep.
Lori why are you so amazing? I keep coming to this couple of times a day. It gives me so much hope!
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Fate must have led me to this story some 50 years ago, as I searched for short story writers in a public library. An educated librarian guided me to a shelf, pulled a book from it 8:38 and insisted I check it out and read "The Aleph And Other Stories." Of course, I did. I came upon this story, read, and put down the book utterly devastated, just like the Dreamer when he realized the Truth. 50 years later this story still takes me to that empty, intangible, blissful place. Thanks to the lovely reader, whom Borges surely would have regarded as a goddess.
If I ever heard a reader voice that could do justice to Immortal Borges, this is that voice.
What an amazing channel you have here. I’m so happy I stumbled across it! I’ll be a Subscriber from now on!
Absolutely dark and haunting. There is no stopping in the middle once starting to listen to this piece. I read the "About Sylvia" link you included above, and I must learn even more about her now.
If you want to skip passed my rambling preamble, you can start the video here and listen to chapter 1 ruclips.net/video/7Di4ht0ayu4/видео.htmlsi=H3tq0q6QWPcNO9Kp&t=393
Holy Mother of God! Who writes a poem like that?! (Reason goes right out the door. As a poem says, "To think that two and two are four and neither five nor three, the heart of man hath long been sore ... and long 'tis like to be.") Terrific reading!
Holy Toledo! How difficult it must be to translate a poem and rhyme it properly without making it sound awkward.
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I listened to the poem. Then I went online and read it almost thrice. Yet to be honest I couldn't make the head and tails of it. Looks like I will have to find an explaination somewhere 😆 Or read it over and over again for a few more times. Usually Plath's poems are based on her personal experience so ig I should read about her relationship with her Father first.
He was a German professor who taught German and entomology but he died when she was 8, so she really didn’t have much to draw on except his ethnicity and profession, and she used imagery in her poem from the few facts she had. Obviously, his loss left a gaping hole in her psyche that she was unable to fill until she met Ted Hughes whom she married and alludes to here, but like she felt her father did, her husband abandoned her too. It’s an imagistic poem and a portrait of her father and his loss in words, and from her word choices, and holocaust references, one can garner how much his absence in her life caused her to suffer.
@@APoetryChannel I see. I am still going over a lot of references. I found a wonderful book analyzing the works on Plath...well atleast excerpts of it (it'sby Robert Phillips). The except "On Daddy" states that the whole of this poem was a way of Plath to achieve relief and independence after "murdering" her father and burying him basically. Now I get who the sudden "Vampire" was. It must be Hughes then. Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me. I will read a bit more about this whole affair, since Plath's poem has always left a deep impression on me and yet I haven't ever gone particularly deep in her history (though one can say most of her poems are influenced by her life experiences)
Exceptional reading, truly brought to life in your voice. Seems like you would be a highly-sought-after audiobook reader.
A splendid poem, and a beautiful recitation! Falling stars impose such an evanescent imagery, a phantasm really. Yet even with failing hopes and desires, human resilience persists it seems :)
Thank you!!
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My pleasure. I really must try to create these installments for the book more than once a month because this novel is loooooong. It'll take me 5 more years to finish at this rate. Haha xo