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    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York State Poets: A celebration of American poetry
    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York State Poets: A celebration of American poetry
    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York State Poets: A celebration of American poetry
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    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York State Poets: A celebration of American poetry

    Written by Emma Lazarus, Alan Seeger, Herman Melville and

    Narrated by John-Michael MacDonald, Lorelei King and Danny Swopes

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    About this audiobook

    Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.

    Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy.

    In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades.

    The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy.

    Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art. Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.

    New York state is more often overshadowed by its energetic and overwhelming five boroughs of its namesake city. But among its other cities, towns and countryside is a veritable who’s who of classic poets including Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Herman Melville and Philip Freneau. Their words and verse record and reveal a wide range of topics and subjects as they focus their poetic talents on the State of their birth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateNov 11, 2023
    ISBN9781835478431
    Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New York State Poets: A celebration of American poetry

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