Date: 2004
"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: Summer, 2004
"Because of the way we live, the basement of the American mind fills up with the sexual use of other people."
preview | full record— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)
Date: Summer, 2004
"Even on the subway and in the street, porn-i-color daydreams issue through our mental viewfinders."
preview | full record— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)
Date: January 25, 2005
"I'm staring out into that vacuum again / From the back porch of my mind / The only thing that's alive, I'm all there is."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: January 25, 2005
"And each morning she wakes / With a dream to describe / Something lovely that bloomed / In her beautiful mind."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2005
"What suffocates the land / In the memory of a garbage can / Memory of a garbage can?"
preview | full record— Bird, Andrew (b. July 11, 1973)
Date: 2005
"Memories, like mohair sweaters, / Stretched and pilled faux distressed letters."
preview | full record— Bird, Andrew (b. July 11, 1973)
Date: 2006
"More and more in recent weeks, he had found himself approaching likewise the condition of an empty cylinder, ony intermittently occupied by intelligent thought."
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 2006
"... moving from the minor mode it had been in throughout into the major, ending with a Picardy third cadence that, if it did not break Lew's heart exactly, did leave a fine crack that in time was to prove unmendable."
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: 2006
"It was a time in Cripple and Victor, Leadville and Creede, when men were finding their way to the unblastable seams of their own secret natures, learning the true names of desire, which spoke, so they dreamed, would open the way through the mountains to all that had been denied them."
preview | full record— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)