Date: 1940
"The provinces of his body revolted, / The squares of his mind were empty, / Silence invaded the suburbs, / The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1940
"In the deserts of the heart / Let the healing fountain start."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1942
"The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind, / If one may say so."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: December, 1942
"Do we act or do we think / when years roll round on a barber's pole, / when what is red is white is pink, / which is body which is soul?"
preview | full record— Smith, William Jay (1918-2015)