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Skylight
- Author
- Carol Muske-Dukes
- Narrator
- Hope
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Publish Date
- 30 July 2026
- Run Time
- 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems, Poetry / Poems
What to expect
Poetry from a writer celebrated as one of the most distinctive voices of her generation
This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling.
Among the thirty-five poems in
Skylight are sonnets, sestinas, and free verse forms on topics ranging from politics to architecture and science. In one volume, Muske-Dukes, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California, incorporates multitudes, unified by her lyrical style and rapier-sharp observations. The sonnet "Fireflies" explores a strained relationship that is healed, for one moment, in a nighttime walk lit by the pulsing signals of firefly life. "The Funeral" confronts the stark playground atmosphere in the wake of a child's funeral. In the melancholy and unforgettable title poem, an "apartment in the sky" in New York City spins before the reader's eyes.
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Details
- Author
- Carol Muske-Dukes
- Narrator
- Hope
- Duration
- 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9798337212579
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems, Poetry / Poems
Synopsis
Poetry from a writer celebrated as one of the most distinctive voices of her generation This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling. Among the thirty-five poems in Skylight are sonnets, sestinas, and free verse forms on topics ranging from politics to architecture and science. In one volume, Muske-Dukes, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California, incorporates multitudes, unified by her lyrical style and rapier-sharp observations. The sonnet "Fireflies" explores a strained relationship that is healed, for one moment, in a nighttime walk lit by the pulsing signals of firefly life. "The Funeral" confronts the stark playground atmosphere in the wake of a child's funeral. In the melancholy and unforgettable title poem, an "apartment in the sky" in New York City spins before the reader's eyes.
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