Date: 1955, 1958
"It [the title of this book] is used out of context but expresses the way I felt about these poems when I wrote them---as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul."
preview | full record— Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. (b. 1919)
Date: 1955, 1958
"It will be dark out there / with the Salvation Army Band. / And the mind its own illumination."
preview | full record— Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. (b. 1919)
Date: 1959
"Look, the fixed stars, all just alike / as lack-land atoms split apart, / and the Republic summons Ike, / the mausoleum in her heart."
preview | full record— Lowell, Robert (1917-1977)
Date: 1959, 1964
"run your finger along your no-moss mind / that's not a thought that's soot"
preview | full record— O'Hara, Francis Russell "Frank" (1926-1966)
Date: 1964
"Industrious, affable, having brain on fire, / Henry perplexed himself."
preview | full record— Berryman, John [b. John Allyn Smith, Jr.] (1914-1972)
Date: 1965
"The younger machines occupy miles of dark benches, / Enjoying self-induced vacations of the mind, / Eating textbook rinds, spitting culture seeds, / Dreaming an exotic name to give their latest defeat, / Computing the hours on computer minds."
preview | full record— Kaufman, Bob (1925-1986)
Date: August, 1965
"His mind's all black thickets / and blood."
preview | full record— Harrison, Jim (1937-2016)
Date: 1968
"my mind a shuttle among / set strings of the music / lets a weft of dream grow in the day time, / an increment of associations, / luminous soft threads, / the thrown glamour, crossing and recrossing, / the twisted sinews underlying the work."
preview | full record— Duncan, Robert (1919-1988)
Date: 1972
"Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, / Blowing through the jasmine in my mind."
preview | full record— Seals, Jim (b. 1941) and Dash Crofts (b. 1940)
Date: 1985
"If the soul is just the story that it tells, then / Did his answer, his smile, / The way he took his comb out of his back pocket / And slicked his hair back, / Spite the soul with something like the soul?"
preview | full record— Levis, Larry Patrick (1946-1996)