Date: 2001
"The mind notices it exists when it gets in its own way, as two strands have to get in each others' way to make a knot."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"Pebble, question, soul: no one can see all sides at once, but there is no side that cannot be seen."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: 2001
"Same even with those cherished early memories: we call up a sketch, fill in the blanks, and store it again, changed."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
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
"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)
Date: 2006
"This subsystem still chattered; this one had fallen silent."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
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)