Date: 1982
"'I can still see Wilkie,' says a contemporary, 'late for a speech, running through the library, raincoat over his shoulder, half done up, like his mind.'"
preview | full record— Smith, Richard Norton (b. 1953)
Date: July 23, 1995
"His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free."
preview | full record— Smith, Chuck
Date: 2005
"Memories, like mohair sweaters, / Stretched and pilled faux distressed letters."
preview | full record— Bird, Andrew (b. July 11, 1973)
Date: Februrary 25, 2009
"He thinks that discourses are 'established conventions' and that language is a resource which constrains what can be said – as if words were ill-fitting clothes within which thoughts are confined."
preview | full record— Wootton, David
Date: 2018
"[A]ll the thoughts we produce are organized like clothes in a wardrobe, with trousers on one shelf, sweaters on another."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)