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How to Read The Brubury Tales by Frank Mundo
A lot of people have told me that they want to read my poetry book The Brubury Tales but that they feel intimidated because of its size (the Brubury Tales is a 65,000-word rhyming poem that reimagines Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Los Angeles after the 1992 Riots). They say they've never read such a large poem before and aren't sure how to go about it.
Usually I send them a link to a video of me reading or invite them to one of my readings to hear it live. And, once they hear me read a little of it, it seems they find that it's really very accessible -- and not much different than reading other novels.
With this in mind, check out this recording of The General Prologue, the opening chapter of The Brubury Tales I did in a recording studio a while back. The studio time was a prize I won for winning a Spoken Word poetry contest at the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica, California.
Check it out and see for yourself how a novel-in-verse sounds.
https://soundcloud.com/frank-mundo
Usually I send them a link to a video of me reading or invite them to one of my readings to hear it live. And, once they hear me read a little of it, it seems they find that it's really very accessible -- and not much different than reading other novels.
With this in mind, check out this recording of The General Prologue, the opening chapter of The Brubury Tales I did in a recording studio a while back. The studio time was a prize I won for winning a Spoken Word poetry contest at the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica, California.
Check it out and see for yourself how a novel-in-verse sounds.
https://soundcloud.com/frank-mundo
