The Desert Music and Other Poems - Table of Contents

Table of Contents

  • "The Descent"
  • "To Daphne and Virginia"
  • "The Orchestra"
  • "For Eleanor and Bill Monahan"
  • "To a Dog Injured in the Street"
  • "The Yellow Flower"
  • "The Host"
  • "Deep Religious Faith"
  • "The Mental Hospital Garden"
  • "The Artist"
  • "Theocritus: Idyl I"
  • "The Desert Music"

Except for the title poem, all the pieces here are in triadic stanza form (with slight exceptions), as in the opening of "The Descent":

The descent beckons
as the ascent beckoned.
Memory is a kind
of accomplishment,
a sort of renewal
even

Parts of "Theocritus: Idyl I" and "The Orchestra" were used in The Desert Music, a composition for chorus and orchestra or voices and ensemble by Minimalist composer Steve Reich in 1984.

William Carlos Williams
Poetry collections
  • Poems (1909)
  • Al Que Quiere! (1917)
  • Sour Grapes (1921)
  • Spring and All (1923)
  • An Early Martyr and Other Poems (1935)
  • The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954)
  • Journey to Love (1955)
  • Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962)
Poems
  • "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
  • "Paterson"
  • "Raleigh was Right"
  • "The Red Wheelbarrow"
  • "This Is Just To Say"
Short stories
  • The Use of Force

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