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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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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....
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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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Help -- I can't stop listening to this
- By Louis on 05-19-10
By: T. S. Eliot
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Poems of the Orient
- By: Rumi, Sa'di, Hafiz
- Narrated by: David Timson, Madhav Sharma
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald, remains one of the most popular poems....
By: Rumi, and others
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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Great Poem
- By JCW on 12-30-16
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The Mirror of My Heart
- A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
- By: Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Tala Ashe, and others
- Length: 6 hrs
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An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis....
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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Still struggling with poetry
- By Beatrice on 01-30-12
By: Adrienne Rich, and others
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Poetry Unbound
- 50 Poems to Open Your World
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Praise to Pádraig O Tuama
- By Marilyn Hargrove on 02-01-23
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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Help -- I can't stop listening to this
- By Louis on 05-19-10
By: T. S. Eliot
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Poems of the Orient
- By: Rumi, Sa'di, Hafiz
- Narrated by: David Timson, Madhav Sharma
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald, remains one of the most popular poems....
By: Rumi, and others
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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Great Poem
- By JCW on 12-30-16
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The Mirror of My Heart
- A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
- By: Dick Davis - translator introduction
- Narrated by: Dick Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Tala Ashe, and others
- Length: 6 hrs
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An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis....
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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Still struggling with poetry
- By Beatrice on 01-30-12
By: Adrienne Rich, and others
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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Not Unabridged, Strictly Speaking
- By Charles B on 07-24-17
By: Richard Ellman
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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Beautiful performances but disappointing content
- By Lucy B on 08-12-18
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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This Is the Honey
- An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrated by: Mahogany L. Brown, Joel Damany Steingold
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout....
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A thoughtful collection 
- By Amazon Customer on 03-12-24
By: Kwame Alexander
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
- By: William Shakespeare, John Milton, more
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...
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a nice collection with a flawed presentation
- By Margaret on 03-13-16
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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Antología Poética I [Poetic Anthology 1]
- By: Jorge Manrique, Francisco de Quevedo, Gustavo Adolpho Bécquer, and others
- Narrated by: Mikel Gandía
- Length: 36 mins
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La poesía es la forma más bella de la expresión literaria....
By: Jorge Manrique, and others
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Realms of Gold
- By: John Keats
- Narrated by: Samuel West, Matthew Marsh
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life….
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Ashes in Italy, but alive in my Ipod
- By Josh on 06-29-04
By: John Keats
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Poems Every Catholic Should Know
- By: Joseph Pearce
- Narrated by: Kevin O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity....
By: Joseph Pearce
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The Poetry of World War One
- By: Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, and others
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards, Lucy Scott
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse.
By: Siegfried Sassoon, and others
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech....
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The Anthology of 'Music-Makers'
- By ESK on 12-26-12
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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Poems for Men
- By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Ernest Henley, Rudyard Kipling, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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Do men need poems? Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse? Obviously yes. Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved....
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others
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Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
- Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
- By: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Robin Miles, Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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The intellectual and cultural revival of African-American arts and politics in the 1920s and 1930s was centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Here are poems from three major contributors to that rebirth....
By: Langston Hughes, and others
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The Language of Life
- A Festival of Poets
- By: Sekou Sundiata, Naomi Shihab Nye, Bill Moyers
- Narrated by: Sekou Sundiata, Naomi Shihab Nye
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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In a series of fascinating conversations with eighteen American poets, and in dozens of poems, The Language of Life celebrates language...
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Life-changing
- By Deanna O'Shaughnessy on 11-19-04
By: Sekou Sundiata, and others
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- By: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, and others
- Narrated by: Alexander Neubauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....
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Fascinating
- By d on 08-28-16
By: Lucille Clifton, and others
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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Interesting details, great historical context, disappointingly Eurocentric
- By Casey on 08-11-21
By: John Carey
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Poets: Emergence of a Crystallised Language
- Painted Histories 1
- By: N.P. James
- Narrated by: Daniel R. Proulx
- Length: 58 mins
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Part one of the continuing series entitled Painted Histories indexes leading figures in two significant phases of poetic expression in English literature.
By: N.P. James
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In Flanders Field and Other Poems About War
- By: John McCrae, Wilfred Owen
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 53 mins
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In World War I, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets put down their thoughts in poetry telling us much about wars and the people who fight them....
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Junk
- By Francoise on 03-02-19
By: John McCrae, and others
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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wonderful but - no titles
- By anne Hall on 01-28-23
By: Thomas Hardy, and others
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Walt Whitman Poetry Collection
- Leaves of Grass, Various Works and Poems, and a Complete Biography of Walt Whitman
- By: Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CSA Publishing
- Narrated by: Tom Chandler
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Five works in one collection. This audiobook of his treasured poetry collection walks you through a time when the American Experiment came to a new maturity; when the Transcendentalist Movement forever changed life and poetry....
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Influential and emotional
- By Rachel A. on 03-18-21
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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The Poetry of the Romantics
- By: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Pullman, Blair Underwood, Burt Reynolds, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth....
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Piano Music Distracting and loud
- By Booklass on 12-22-23
By: John Keats, and others
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The Poetry Remedy
- Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul
- By: William Sieghart
- Narrated by: William Sieghart
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice are tailored to those moments in life when we need them most, from general glumness to news overload, and from infatuation to losing the spark....
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Very soothing
- By Nancy S. on 09-16-22
By: William Sieghart
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Gert Westphal liest: Die schönsten deutschen Balladen
- By: Clemens Brentano, Gottfried August Bürger, Adelbert von Chamisso, and others
- Narrated by: Gert Westphal
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Fast jeder wird diese Zeile vervollständigen können. Aber erst wenn Gert Westphal solche...
By: Clemens Brentano, and others
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On Starry Thighs
- Sensual & Sacred Poetry
- By: Lee Harrington
- Narrated by: Lee Harrington
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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A titillating assortment of works on the transforming the power of sex and desire. On Starry Thighs is a collection of love poetry, lust prose, devotional prayers, and intimate blessings....
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non-spoiler review
- By William on 02-08-22
By: Lee Harrington
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Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí
- By: Rupi Kaur
- Narrated by: Pastora Vega
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Con una sensibilidad exquisita, Rupi Kaur aborda en "Todo lo que necesito existe ya en mí" algunos de los temas por los que se dio a conocer con sus anteriores...
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I love it
- By Maria Dolores Ibarra on 08-01-23
By: Rupi Kaur
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Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day
- By: Phil Cousineau
- Narrated by: Nick Hahn
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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In Burning the Midnight Oil, Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great thinkers throughout the ages....
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A Beautiful Blend of Voice and Story
- By Lou Ann Granger on 08-04-14
By: Phil Cousineau
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100 Love Sonnets
- Cien sonetos de amor
- By: Pablo Neruda, Stephen Tapscott - translator
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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"The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of 100 Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and tides, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wildflowers, and the hot sun and salty scent of the sea to celebrate their love.
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Completely distracting, not in a good way
- By Robert Cedotal Jr on 07-01-21