Petals
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Petals by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 27, 2011.
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Lowell was born into Brookline's prominent Lowell family, sister to astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell.
She never attended college because her family did not consider that proper for a woman, but she compensated with avid reading and near-obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and travelled widely, turning to poetry in 1902 after being inspired by a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe. In the post-World War II years, Lowell, like other women writers, was largely forgotten, but with the renaissance of the women's movement in the 1970s, women's studies brought her back to light. According to Heywood Broun, however, Lowell personally argued against feminism. Her poem, “Petals” is published in her collection A Dome of Many-Colored Glass (1912). (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Bob Gonzalez)
Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Petals - Read by AMB | Ann Boulais |
00:00:54 |
Play 02 | Petals - Read by BG | Bob Gonzalez |
00:01:02 |
Play 03 | Petals - Read by CC | Chris Caron |
00:00:52 |
Play 04 | Petals - Read by DL | David Lawrence |
00:00:58 |
Play 05 | Petals - Read by GC | Snapdragon |
00:00:59 |
Play 06 | Petals - Read by GHS | Algy Pug |
00:01:01 |
Play 07 | Petals - Read by JCM | Jason Mills |
00:00:59 |
Play 08 | Petals - Read by JS | Jonathan Sjöblom |
00:00:57 |
Play 09 | Petals - Read by LAH | Lee Ann Howlett |
00:01:06 |
Play 10 | Petals - Read by LKP | Lucy Perry |
00:01:00 |
Play 11 | Petals - Read by LLW | Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
00:01:10 |
Play 12 | Petals - Read by MG | Martin Geeson |
00:01:17 |
Play 13 | Petals read by RK | Ruthie King |
00:01:01 |
Play 14 | Petals - Read by RN | ravenotation |
00:01:11 |
Play 15 | Petals - Read by RSS | sanura |
00:00:53 |