She walks in beauty [a woman's journey through poems]
2011
Book On CD
"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 Clifton, Naomi Shihab Nye, and W.B. Yeats.
Item Details
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).
Publisher or Distributor Number: UACD 5914(5)
Control Number: 823168
Publisher: [New York, NY.] : Hyperion Audio, [2011]Subjects:
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