XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings ~ Full Audiobook [poetry]

XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings audiobook. Genre: poetry Imagine being carried through forty-one small, electric explosions of language where punctuation becomes percussion and the spaces between words are secret rooms — that is what listening to XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings feels like: a living, breathing map of surprise, tenderness, mischief and rebellion, read aloud so every offbeat pause, every breathy enjambment and playful inversion unfurls into music. Cummings' syntax breaks and re-makes itself on the fly, his irreverent grammar and tender eroticism asking to be heard as much as read; in audio the poems' rhythmic heartbeats, sudden silences and ecstatic crescendos become physical sensations, the kind that curl the lip with a smile, catch your breath, or make your chest ache with recognition. The collection moves effortlessly from intimate whispers to joyful war-cries for individuality and love, from sly, comic turns to moments of pure, aching beauty — and a narrator who leans into Cummings’ musicality will transform typographic stunts into vocal acrobatics, letting you feel the poems’ textures on the skin of your ear. If you want language that refuses to sit politely on the page and instead insists on being performed — alive, immediate, and wholly intimate — the audiobook of XLI Poems is not just a way to experience Cummings, it’s an invitation to be swept into the tempo of his mind, to discover how daringly playful and profoundly human these short, wild pieces are when they are spoken to you. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:00:52) Chapter 02 (00:01:51) Chapter 03 (00:02:40) Chapter 04 (00:03:29) Chapter 05 (00:04:25) Chapter 06 (00:05:30) Chapter 07 (00:06:18) Chapter 08 (00:07:21) Chapter 09 (00:08:13) Chapter 10 (00:09:01) Chapter 11 (00:10:05) Chapter 12 (00:11:05) Chapter 13 (00:11:55) Chapter 14 (00:13:15) Chapter 15 (00:15:06) Chapter 16 (00:16:30) Chapter 17 (00:17:40) Chapter 18 (00:18:45) Chapter 19 (00:20:38) Chapter 20 (00:22:00) Chapter 21 (00:23:03) Chapter 22 (00:24:44) Chapter 23 (00:28:10) Chapter 24 (00:29:02) Chapter 25 (00:30:14) Chapter 26 (00:31:26) Chapter 27 (00:32:36) Chapter 28 (00:33:47) Chapter 29 (00:35:00) Chapter 30 (00:36:15) Chapter 31 (00:37:30) Chapter 32 (00:38:53) Chapter 33 (00:40:00) Chapter 34 (00:41:16) Chapter 35 (00:42:27) Chapter 36 (00:43:43) Chapter 37 (00:44:49) Chapter 38 (00:45:48) Chapter 39 (00:46:57) Chapter 40 (00:48:02) Chapter 41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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