Date: 1946
"Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie / his rushing brain."
preview | full record— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
Date: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951
"It is certainly not then--not in dreams--but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower."
preview | full record— Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)
Date: 1964
"Its productivity and efficiency, its capacity to increase and spread comforts, to turn waste into need, and destruction into construction, the extent to which this civilization transforms the object world into an extension of man's mind and body makes the very notion of alienation questionable. ...
preview | full record— Marcuse, Herbert (1898-1979)
Date: 1972
"as the Whale dives / snapping our mind / like a lifeboat ?"
preview | full record— Plumb, David