Date: 1892
"Winds of summer fields / Recollect the way,-- / Instinct picking up the key / Dropped by memory."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: November 1914
"All my thoughts are slow and brown."
preview | full record— Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
Date: September, 1934
"This weight of knowledge dark on the brain is never / To be burnt out like fever, // But will slowly, with speech to tell the way and ease it, / Will sink into the blood, and warm, and slowly / Move in the veins, and murmur, and come at length / To the tongue's tip and the finger's tip most lowl...
preview | full record— Miles, Josephine (1911-1985)
Date: 1946
"Icebergs behoove the soul / (both being self-made from elements least visible) / to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible."
preview | full record— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
Date: 1963
"Your mind now, mouldering like wedding-cake / heavy with useless experience, rich / with suspicion, rumor, fantasy, / crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge / of mere fact."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: 1963
"Delicious recollections / float like perfume through the memory."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: 2002
"There is the story of the mind's temperature neither cold nor celibate."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: 2003
"Believe the fallen leaf / from one world floats there, / in another, tawny star on the black water, / the soul's cradle, / even when he must pause / to rest his racing heart, / & cannot see it?"
preview | full record— Spaar, Lisa Russ
Date: 2004
"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)