Date: 1984
"His brain was deep-fried. No, he decided, it had been thrown into hot fat and left there, and the fat had cooled, a thick dull grease congealing on wrinkled lobes, shot through with greenish-purple flashes of pain."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1984
"He still had his anger. That was like being rolled in some alley and waking to discover your wallet still in your pocket, untouched."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
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)
Date: 1985
"The Self sounds like a guy raking leaves / Off his walk. It sounds like the scrape of the rake. / The soul is just a story the scraping tells."
preview | full record— Levis, Larry Patrick (1946-1996)
Date: 1990
"The soul is a corruption / and a mnemonic."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: 1990
"I did not know the soul / is cleaved so that the soul might be restored. / Live wood hewn, / its sap springs from a sticky wound."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: 1991
"You soar off to another world, deep in your mind, / But people seem to take that, as being unkind."
preview | full record— Tribe Called Quest [Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jarobi White]
Date: 1993
"Your mind, I tell graduates, is a lot like a parachute--it won't help you much if it doesn't open when you need it."
preview | full record— Crowe, William J. (1925-2007)
Date: May 23, 1993
"'Your mind,' Admiral Crowe likes to tell university students, 'is a lot like a parachute -- it won't help you much if it doesn't open when you need it.'"
preview | full record— Rosenberg, David Alan