Date: 1980
"And here we find our greatest affinity with water, for like reflections on water our thoughts will suffer no changing shock, no permanent displacement."
preview | full record— Robinson, Marilynne (b. 1943)
Date: 1986
"But it was only the heart's / racketing flywheel stuttering I want, I want // until exhaustion, until I was a guest in the yoke / of my body by the last margin of land where the river // mingles with the sea & far off daylight whitens, / a rending & yielding I must kneel before, as // bar...
preview | full record— Hull, Lynda (1954-1994)
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: Summer, 1991
"Elinor's pupils, those less tractable sphincters of the soul, won't close against the hapless hemorrhaging of her visual attention-flow toward Marianne; it is this, indeed, that renders her consciousness, in turn, habitable, inviting, and formative to readers as 'point-of-view.'"
preview | full record— Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (1950-2009)
Date: November 8, 1994
"I thought this is some terrific computer down here."
preview | full record— Blakeslee, Sandra
Date: 1999
"The next day, I changed all my classmates’ names to numbers to better reflect their metal hearts."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
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)
Date: 1999
"'How do you expect to learn anything when you fill your mind with garbage?' he said."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Date: 1999
"A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Date: 1999
"Just as birds are lifted up into the air by their feathers and can remain wherever they wish, the soul in the body is elevated by thought and spreads its wings everywhere."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)