Date: 1845
"Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness."
preview | full record— Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
Date: 1922
"I plucked my soul out of its secret place, / And held it to the mirror of my eye, / To see it like a star against the sky, / A twitching body quivering in space, / A spark of passion shining on my face."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: March, 2014
"Culture: a kind of knife: / cuts one way opens / your brain to a certain / breed of light shaves / consciousness to its // purpose, its cross."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)