Length47m
About this audiobook
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."
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length47 mins
Narrated byHope
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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