Date: Summer, 1991
"Elinor has constructed herself in this way around an original lack: the absentation of her sister, and perhaps in the first place the withholding from herself of the love of their mother, whom she then compulsively unites with Marianne, the favorite, in the love-drenched tableaux of her imaginat...
preview | full record— Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (1950-2009)
Date: 1999
"But my mother told me that just the opposite was true. That the pictures in your mind were always more beautiful than what was in the world."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)