Date: 2006
"None of them ever breathed / a word about the fact that this humming, / aromatic, acid flashback, pungent, tingly / fingered world is acted out differently / for each one of us by the puppet theatre / of our senses."
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Date: 2006
"Curses, outbursts / and distracting chants simmer all day / long in the Crock-Pots of our heads."
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Date: 2006
"If our thoughts / and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste / of bile when we're defeated and be flavored / faintly with grace on better days?"
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Date: 2006
"That he could enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Cormac (b. 1933)
Date: 2006
"Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts."
preview | full record— McCarthy, Cormac (b. 1933)
Date: 2006
"The brain is a mind-boggling redesign. But it can't escape its past. [...] She pictured those mangled Kearney mansions, glorious old wooden Victorians enlarged with brick in the 1930s and again in the 1970s with pressboard and aluminum."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"The neurologist made the brain sound more rickety than the old toy trucks Mark used to assemble from discarded cabinet parts and sawn-off detergent bottles."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"The reptile brain, creeping out to sun itself."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"Mental space is larger than anyone can think."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2006
"She was there, in Weber's strobing mind, when he stepped into the jetway at La-Guardia, and gone when he found himself, that same afternoon, dead center in the evacuated prairie, with no transition but a jump cut."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)