At Ease on Lethe Wharf

Author(s): Helen Coale Crew

Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Algy Pug, Anita Slusser, Carol Box, Dan Darbandi, David Lawrence, Ernst Pattynama, Mudlark, Fshort, Garth Burton, Heidi Bedrossian, Jason Mills, Jeff Johnson, Jannie Meisberger, Lee Ann Howlett, Lucretia B., MerryMaryMoon, Ravenotation, Rookieblue

Number of Chapters: 18

Length: 27 minutes

Language: English

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of At Ease on Lethe Wharf, by Helen Coale Crew. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14th, 2013.

Helen Coale Crew was an American poet and novelist. Her touching evocation of forgetfulness comes from the Chicago Anthology, published in 1916. Lethe refers to the first river that souls bound for the Elysian Fields, the Heaven of the ancient Greeks, had to cross. Drinking from the river was said to have the effect of expunging all memories.