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"I Will"
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"Twentieth Century"
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Date: 1922
"I plucked my soul out of its secret place, / And held it to the mirror of my eye, / To see it like a star against the sky, / A twitching body quivering in space, / A spark of passion shining on my face."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
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: 1999
"I know her mind is full of darkness, nastiness, things best forgotten or left unmentioned."
preview | full record— Budnitz, Judy (b. 1973)
