VoicePost 505K 2:33

“'April Inventory' by W.D. Snodgrass” Transcribed by: bronze_ribbons

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One more self-indulgent voicepost for the day, brought to you because I happened to be browsing around my Norton Anthology while waiting on something else. :-) About this poem -- Snodgrass wrote it in 1959, when he was around 33 -- which is rather disconcerting, since I'm older than that now, and I'd always assumed the speaker was much older than me...

VoicePost 349K 1:44

“"Rescue" - William Matthews” Transcribed by: bronze_ribbons

"To absolve me of my loneliness, and rather
than board her for the stint, I brought
my cat with me for two weeks in Vermont. Across
bare, borrowed floors she harried ping-
pong balls, her claws like castanets, her blunt face rapt..."

VoicePost 348K 1:49

“"The Window" by Lynda Hull - part 2” Transcribed by: bronze_ribbons

"...Oh phantoms.
Oh the many lives that have fountained through
my own. Soon, soon, I shall stop upon that platform

& you will meet me there, the world rosegray beyond
the scalloped tops of buildings & we shall seek
that thing which shines & doth so much torment us."

VoicePost 803K 4:09

“"The Window" by Lynda Hull - part 1” Transcribed by: bronze_ribbons

marymary and I were discussing readings the other night and I belatedly realized I've only featured one female poet so far (Vassar Miller). So this is a start toward remedying that.

VoicePost 290K 1:37

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Somewhat dopey and wholly POV-inconsistent English version of the German folksong inflicted shared in the previous post.

VoicePost 286K 1:36

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Because I promised busaikko I'd sing to her about linden trees.

Also originally intended as an art meme thingie for xanthophyllippa, but between the dodgy German and my voice being under par after a month off, methinks she'll be better off with limericks once I get around to them. ;-)

VoicePost 1070K 5:25

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Written by Chelle for stasia's birthday a couple months ago. Snape/Lupin, WS.


...and I'm not satisfied with how I read Remus's lines (they didn't come out as I hear them, if that makes any sense), but it was the best I could do this morning. One of these days I'm going to succumb to the temptation to splurge on proper recording/editing equipment, and then all y'all will be doomed...

VoicePost 494K 2:41

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Notes:

(1) I wasn't going to post this take publicly, but it's the best of what I managed before I ran out of voiceposts. (That, and I really should get back to work.) *rueful smile* I might try again next month, because there's a couple of lines in there I still don't have a good handle on. (Who knew the word "only" could be such a challenge!?)

(2) The Daughter of the Confederacy affectation is deliberate, both because English accents are beyond me and because this is actually how I hear this poem in my head. (The other recordings I've heard recently struck me as overly rushed and clipped.) In real life, I'm mostly likely to slide into a variation of this when among other Southerners or when I'm a certain degree of upset. (For instance, I was practicing Severus yelling at Remus yesterday, and trying to shade it with some flavor of English, and it would not come out as anything other than mad-hen Southern.)

VoicePost 954K 4:49

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For busaikko-san: the passage with Harriet and Peter's sonnet.