In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works. Vol. 1 Assorted Selection
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NOTE: Comes complete with special video recordings of the author, Dr. Jeffrey Lant reading each chapter of the book.
For a new style of reading experience derived from an epiphany (a moment of surpassing importance and significance) which took place at the Downers Grove Library.
The librarians came to present me with readings from the great poets... people like Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg to fill my voracious appetite about stories, I could never get enough.
In particular it was the present they gave me... their latest acquisition.
"I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too."
"The Pasture", Robert Frost (1915)
I played this poem so often, each time hearing a little more of its author, the often irritated and irascible Robert Frost. I like the way he rolled those three little words: "you come too." Only he didn't pronounce it like that. Great poets have great eccentricities, and his were encapsuled in his rendering of these three words. Thus "ah you come too". It was a call to come and be sociable, come and share, come and see your neighborhood and everything in it.
So powerful and so unfading were these words recorded by Robert Frost to me.
Now, I have the opportunity to read my own works... to you, and hope that you will hear just how personal they are, and how each one, so powerfully written, touches your heart, because that is what I aim for.
This book contains five of my favorite essays, with the text and a special recording for each...
For a new style of reading experience derived from an epiphany (a moment of surpassing importance and significance) which took place at the Downers Grove Library.
The librarians came to present me with readings from the great poets... people like Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg to fill my voracious appetite about stories, I could never get enough.
In particular it was the present they gave me... their latest acquisition.
"I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too."
"The Pasture", Robert Frost (1915)
I played this poem so often, each time hearing a little more of its author, the often irritated and irascible Robert Frost. I like the way he rolled those three little words: "you come too." Only he didn't pronounce it like that. Great poets have great eccentricities, and his were encapsuled in his rendering of these three words. Thus "ah you come too". It was a call to come and be sociable, come and share, come and see your neighborhood and everything in it.
So powerful and so unfading were these words recorded by Robert Frost to me.
Now, I have the opportunity to read my own works... to you, and hope that you will hear just how personal they are, and how each one, so powerfully written, touches your heart, because that is what I aim for.
This book contains five of my favorite essays, with the text and a special recording for each...