Date: 1989
"we all rose / every black one of us still alive / and went to meet that man / the same man who had erased our blackboard, crashed our computer heads, / burned our books and cooked our elders in superstitions and trivial / remembrances slave traders called fairytales from when massa was animals"
preview | full record— Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947)
Date: 1990
"now you see the / two doctors, behind / you, in mind's eye, / probe into your anus, / or ass, or bottom, / behind you, the roto- / rooter-like device / sees all up, concludes / 'like a worn-out inner tube'"
preview | full record— Creeley, Robert (1926-2005)
Date: 1990
"The noise the body makes / when the body meets / the soul over the soul's ocean and penumbra / is the old sound of up-and-down, in-and-out, / a lump of muscle chug-chugging blood / into the ear; a lover's / heart-shaped tongue; / flesh rocking flesh until flesh comes; / the butcher working / at ...
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: 1990
"The soul too / is a debasement / of a text, but, thus, it / acquires salience, although a / human salience, but / inimitable, and, hence, memorable."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
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: May 30, 1994
"The Great Depression had entered our souls like fog."
preview | full record— Justice, Donald (1925-2004)
Date: 2002
A landscape may poise like "A postcard in front of us / As though we'd settled it there, just so, / Halfway between the mind's eye and the mind, just halfway."
preview | full record— Wright, Charles (b. 1935)
Date: 2002
"Of the friend watching him leave remembering / the story of her body / with his once and the stories of their children / made with other people and how his mind went on / pressing hers like a body."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)