Impertinent Poems
Edmund Vance Cooke
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
A Pre-Impertinence:
Anticipating the intelligent critic of "Impertinent Poems," it may well be remarked that the chief impertinence is in calling them poems. Be that as it may, the editors and publishers of "The Saturday Evening Post," "Success" and "Ainslee's," and, in a lesser degree, "Metropolitan," "Independent," "Booklovers'" and "New York Herald" share with the author the reproach of first promoting their publicity. That they are now willing to further reduce their share of the burden by dividing it with the present publishers entitles them to the thanks of the author and the gratitude of the book-buying public.
E.V.C. (1 hr 46 min)
Chapters
Dead Men's Dust | 3:03 | Read by Scotty Smith |
In Nineteen Hundred and Now | 2:42 | Read by Dru Conway |
Don't You? | 2:01 | Read by Scotty Smith |
You Too | 2:58 | Read by tovarisch |
The Eternal Everyday | 1:47 | Read by Dru Conway |
Don't Take Your Troubles to Bed | 1:41 | Read by Dru Conway |
Failure | 1:28 | Read by Dru Conway |
Good | 2:42 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Let's Be Glad We're Living | 3:07 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Success | 3:24 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Grill | 2:31 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The Vision | 1:57 | Read by Dru Conway |
Blood is Red | 2:05 | Read by Dru Conway |
Diagnosis | 2:03 | Read by Dru Conway |
Spread Out | 1:51 | Read by Dru Conway |
The Dilettant | 2:09 | Read by Dru Conway |
The Conservative | 1:37 | Read by Dru Conway |
Hush | 1:53 | Read by tovarisch |
The Island | 3:00 | Read by tovarisch |
Humbler Heroes | 1:46 | Read by Scotty Smith |
Conscience Pianissimo | 2:35 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
The World Runs On | 2:00 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Pass | 1:45 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Publicity | 2:05 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Move | 2:49 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Get Next | 2:33 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Are You You? | 1:26 | Read by tovarisch |
The Price | 1:28 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Bubble-Flies | 2:08 | Read by BettyB |
Qualified | 1:37 | Read by BettyB |
What Are You Doing? | 1:09 | Read by BettyB |
The First Person Singular | 2:05 | Read by BettyB |
The Choice | 1:38 | Read by foursight |
The Saving Clause | 1:47 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Between Two Thieves | 2:31 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Spectator | 1:43 | Read by Larry Wilson |
The Squealer | 2:02 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Distance and Disenchantment | 2:16 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Family Resemblance | 2:27 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Need | 2:20 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Better | 1:36 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
Forget What the Other Man Hath | 1:33 | Read by Dru Conway |
The Whet | 1:28 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
What Sort Are You? | 2:41 | Read by tovarisch |
The Critics | 1:21 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Plug | 2:10 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Familiarity Breeds Contempt | 1:44 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
A Song of Rest | 1:39 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
Desire | 2:12 | Read by tovarisch |
There Is, Oh, So Much | 2:44 | Read by Dru Conway |
How Did You Die? | 1:36 | Read by Larry Wilson |