She walks in beauty [a woman's journey through poems]

Book On CD 2011

"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. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifto...

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ISBN:

9781401326296
9781401326005
1401326293
1401326005

Edition:

Unabridged

Description:

5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
digital
optical
1.4 m/s

Notes:

Subtitle from container
Compact discs, digital recording
Duration: 6:00:00
Read by Caroline Kennedy, Jane Alexander, John Bedford Lloyd, Hope Davis, and Campbell Scott

Contents:

Disc 1. She walks in beauty (6:38) ; Falling in love (10:59) ; Making love (10:57) ; To his mistress going to bed (7:13) Final soliloquy of the interior paramour (7:04) ; Breaking up (9:40) The eaten heart (11:39)
disc 2. Marriage (11:51) ; from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (9:30) ; from Paradise lost (9:24) ; My last duchess (9:36) ; Love itself (8:37) ; The emperor (7:21) ; Work (12:02)
disc 3. I want you women up north to know (12:45) ; The age of great vocations (10:41) ; Beauty, clothes, and things of this world (11:48) ; Cosmetics do no good (9:08) ; Patterns (10:29)
disc 4. Motherhood (12:04) ; If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have (11:27) ; Silence and solitude (15:14) ; Growing up and growing old (12:34) ; The summer day (8:23) ; Sign (7:55)
disc 5. Death and grief (10:11) ; Friendship (11:42) ; Girlfriends (14:07) ; The waking (8:45) ; All things pass (6:46)

Control Number:

823168

Other Authors:

Alexander, Jane, 1939- narrator
Davis, Hope, 1967- narrator
Hyperion Audio (Firm)
Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-
Lloyd, John Bedford, narrator
Scott, Campbell, narrator

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