Date: 1992
"Only behind a waterfall of brutal and pleasurable sensations, thought Patrick, accepting the leather-clad menu without bothering to glance up, could he hide from the bloodhounds of his conscience. . There, in the cool recess of the rock, behind that heavy white veil, he would hear them yelping a...
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"It was hard enough to rescue himself from the avalanche of his own feelings, without allowing the gloomy St Bernard of his attention to wander into other fields."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Heroin landed purring at the base of his skull, and wrapped itself darkly around his nervous system, like a black cat curling up on its favourite cushion."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2007
"When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird, / Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse, / All your friends and sedatives mean well, but make it worse, / Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt, / Better find yourself a place to level out."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2009
"These are some of the things // you don't have to know because the melody / is like a small bird, maybe a yellow canary, / that wings its way into your mind / --no, into your heart-- / where there's a perch already // set up for it, a little trapeze / to swing back and forth on as it sings / and...
preview | full record— Raab, Lawrence (b. 1946)
Date: June 1, 2010
"Books live in the mind like honey inside a beehive.
preview | full record— McGrath, Campbell (b. 1962)
Date: March, 2014
"my good mother, // her mind a trail of crumbs / in a woods flocked with birds."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Date: June 18, 2015
"This was not an unthinkable act. A man may have had a rat's nest for a mind, but it was well thought out. It was a cool, considered crime, as well planned as any bank robbery or any computer fraud."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: December 30, 2015
"The wolf is the part of human nature that the systems have no room for, the aspect of reality that our ideas, the firmament that the brain vaults above our lives, cannot fathom. The wolf is the truth."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: April 28, 2018
"Some magazine stories are fishhooks; they work their way into your mind and don't come out."
preview | full record— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)