The Poets' Corner : The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family (Hardcover)

from janoorani24

This is a review of the audio book, narrated by John Lithgow, with several different readers, to include Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Kathy Bates, and Sam Waterston reading the poems. John Lithgow chose the poems and wrote the introductions to each of them. He includes 50 poems by poets such as W...

from Islandgal

This is a wonderful compilation of poetry spanning the ages that you and your family will enjoy. John Lithgow introduces the book discussing how he would listen to his grandmother recite poems she'd learned in school as a child and how the rhythm of words and phrases interested him. Each poem inc...

from satyridae

I listened to this with my true love and grown stepdaughter. The three of us have wildly divergent tastes and very different levels of familiarity with poetry. We all adored it. Lithgow's passionate introductions to the poems and his capsule biographies of the poets are stellar. The readers, who ...

from vlodko62

Thank you, Mr. Lithgow, for rekindling my love of poetry. This book is a generous, unsolicited act of kindness.Though available as a printed book, this one is really best in audiobook form - the readings are mostly fantastic (and you may recognize some of your favorite actors amonge the readers)....

from janoorani24

This is a review of the audio book, narrated by John Lithgow, with several different readers, to include Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Kathy Bates, and Sam Waterston reading the poems. John Lithgow chose the poems and wrote the introductions to each of them. He includes 50 poems by poets such as W...