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Applause
- Author
- Carol Muske-Dukes
- Narrator
- Hope
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Publish Date
- 30 July 2026
- Run Time
- 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems, Poetry / Poems
What to expect
National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause
This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling.
Applause provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In "Dream," she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. "The Eulogy" paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through the ritual of applause, Muske-Dukes examines the power of a gesture—clapping—to transform oneself from individual to communal. "What a strange phenomenon," she says, "to be single and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish to acknowledge publicly one's anonymity."
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Details
- Author
- Carol Muske-Dukes
- Narrator
- Hope
- Duration
- 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9798337212555
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems, Poetry / Poems
Synopsis
National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling. Applause provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In "Dream," she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. "The Eulogy" paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of AIDS is laid to rest. In the title poem, a twelve-part journey through the ritual of applause, Muske-Dukes examines the power of a gesture—clapping—to transform oneself from individual to communal. "What a strange phenomenon," she says, "to be single and plural at once, to feel joy and dread simultaneously, to wish to acknowledge publicly one's anonymity."
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