[COMPLETE] The Lilt of Life - Zora Cross - tg

[EliseDee]

The Lilt of Life by Zora Cross (1890 - 1964).

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Published in 1918, Zora Cross’s book of poems, The Lilt of Life, was her third book of verse, and, like her earlier works, largely focused on her experiences of love, erotic entanglements (notably from a woman’s point of view), and motherhood. Many of the poems are written as an homage to her then-husband, David McKee Wright, whom she met while writing for The Bulletin, where Wright was her editor, causing a significant scandal in Sydney literary circles. (Elise Dee)

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[cavaet]

And I'll claim DPL for this

[TriciaG]

I'm here. MW coming up...

[TriciaG]

This is set up.

I cannot access the text. (HathiTrust often locks us non-Americans out of texts, and even texts PD in Canada which is Life+50 are often locked out for us because they're not PD in Life+70 countries. We are guilty by association.)

All that to say, I can still MC it, but can't view the text. So would the regular poetry disclaimer be better than the full-on book disclaimer? Something like,

Say: TITLE by AUTHOR, read for LibriVox.org [by your name]. [Add, if you wish, date, your location, and/or your personal url.]
---
End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.

Or modified to something like

Poem [number] of The Lilt of Life, by Zora Cross, read for LibriVox.org [by your name].
--
End of poem [number]. This recording is in the public domain.

or

Poem [number] of The Lilt of Life, by Zora Cross. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain..
--
End of poem [number].

I think I prefer option 3, unless you want to say your name on every recording.

[cavaet]

Elise has altered the source material to archive.org, so hopefully you can determine its PD-ness, Tricia.

I think we'll go with the short version, as we did on Songs of Love and Life, except for Man and Woman, its over an hour long so that's getting the full, librivox disclaimer. As for the name, its about two seconds recording time, I think we'll keep it in.

[TriciaG]

Oh, I was sure before that it was PD. But it is probably better to use the Archive link, since other non-Americans may want to reference the text.

Moving this to Readers Found!

[cavaet]

57 spot PL

[cavaet]

OK. Tricia, before Elise PL's section 2. It is 68 minutes long. Now this will fit on a standard cd by twelve minutes, so are we good to go?

[TriciaG]

OK. Tricia, before Elise PL's section 2. It is 68 minutes long. Now this will fit on a standard cd by twelve minutes, so are we good to go?

Yep, it's A-OK.

[TriciaG]

Things seem to have slowed down here. Everything okay?

[EliseDee]

Still alive, but work has taken over my existence again, so just behind. Have a long weekend, so trying to wrap up in the next couple of days. Yep, it's all me, not Cav.

Thanks for checking in!

Elise

[cavaet]

I'll do all of the Spot PL's on, er, Wednesday, probably. Then we should be done. I think

[cavaet]

OK. This should be the last one. I got it just at seventy minutes. Elise, I hope you can PL this over the weekend, so we can put this one to bed.

C.

[TriciaG]

[TriciaG]

Oh! This one is ready for cataloging? I noticed because it's on the status table as being 100% complete. I'll start working on it...