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Nocturne of Remembered Spring: Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken
Written by:
Conrad Aiken
Narrated by:
Robert Bethune
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January 2012
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2 hours 25 minutes
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What Spoon River Anthology does for a Midwestern small town, Turns and Movies does for the world of vaudeville. Like Masters, like Aiken: passions, betrayals, secrets, sins, victories, defeats, and inevitable losing struggles against age and death are the stuff of this work. And that's only the first part of the book.
The rest of the book consists of a set of four long poems: Discordants, Evensong, Disenchantment and This Dance of Life. In these poems Aiken takes on a subject that strikes home now just as much as it did then: what happens to love when the flame of romance flickers, or even goes out? Aiken's men - he always writes from a man's point of view - make a variety of decisions, but for Aiken, the underlying determinant of all of those choices, for good or ill, is the ongoing, quiet, patient force of life itself:
'A light wind blew; the curtains stirred;
The east grew pale; a sleepy bird
Sang a few notes, then life was still:
A calm, unhurrying, soulless will.'
Aiken's words may be a almost a century old, but they still speak powerfully today. Enjoy!
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