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| 5,500 poems in dozens of languages to read and hear (11/02/2009)
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A German-based poetry web site offers 5,500 poems in dozens of languages available to read and hear. "It's not enough to read a poem," said Christiane Lange from the Berlin Literature Workshop. "A poem has a rhythm, it breathes. When you hear it - especially when it's read by the poet - it takes on a kind of physical presence." That's precisely why the Lange and the Berlin Literature Workshop founded the Lyrikline Web site, where users can not only read over poems, but also listen to recordings of them being read.
There's also a search function and biographical information about the poets. The idea is to find a large audience for poems that typically would only be read by a few people.
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