Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

by Pádraig Ó Tuama Narrated by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Overview

In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives.



Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother's body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience.



For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn't know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.

Editorial Reviews

JANUARY 2023 - AudioFile

Based on the popular podcast “Poetry Unbound,” this audiobook is a fine anthology of poetry, as well as a very good introduction, for those who need it, to how to think about poetry. Even old poetry hands will enjoy and appreciate Pádraig O Tuama’s brief and insightful essays accompanying each poem, as well as the poems themselves, many of which are likely to be unfamiliar even to experienced listeners. O Tuama clearly has thought deeply about how poems should sound, and even the shortest here (only 10 words long) is given shades of meaning by his performance. He is an especially good interpreter of poetry, both as a critic and as a reader. D.M.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Fry

Magnificent…Ó Tuama’s abilities as a curator of poems, combined with his remarkable gift for unpacking poems in such illuminating and generous ways, make this ground-breaking publication one of the most engrossing books I have read in recent years."

AudioFile

This audiobook is a fine anthology of poetry, as well as a very good introduction, for those who need it, to how to think about poetry…Even the shortest here (only ten words long) is given shades of meaning by his performance. He is an especially good interpreter of poetry, both as a critic and as a reader. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

AudioFile Earphone Award Winner

O Tuama clearly has thought deeply about how poems should sound, and even the shortest here (only 10 words long) is given shades of meaning by his performance. He is an especially good interpreter of poetry, both as a critic and as a reader.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176792669
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	12/06/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	533,930

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