Date: 2005
"When we get rid of all the clutter in the mind, the illusions, delusions we've lived with so long, it makes room for new concepts, different ways of looking at ourselves and the world around us."
preview | full record— Rogers, Barb
Date: 2005
"Sometimes I'd be hooked out, plucked and hauled right up into the daylight where I'd find Trevellian shining his torch into me, its shaft falling across my mind's patterned surfaces but managing to occupy them only briefly before it retreated and the inner darkness massed again."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Tom (b. 1969)
Date: 2006
"... moving from the minor mode it had been in throughout into the major, ending with a Picardy third cadence that, if it did not break Lew's heart exactly, did leave a fine crack that in time was to prove unmendable."
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 2006
"I do my best, squeezing the static and / the agony into a straight flat line, / but soon it soars and dips until my mind's / activity looks (you can take the girl...) / uncannily like the Manhattan skyline."
preview | full record— Wetzsteon, Rachel
Date: 2006
"I'm watching them all right, unruly dots / I not only can't part from but can't help / transforming into restless bodies -- they're / no sooner being thought than sprouting limbs, / no longer motionless but striding proudly, / beautiful mental jukeboxes that play / their litanies of joy and woe ...
preview | full record— Wetzsteon, Rachel
Date: 2006
"The neurologist made the brain sound more rickety than the old toy trucks Mark used to assemble from discarded cabinet parts and sawn-off detergent bottles."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"Mental space is larger than anyone can think."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)