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So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.
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William Carlos Williamsâ book The Desert Music was published first in 1954 and later collected in volume two of New Directionsâ The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams. It remains one of William Carlos Williamsâ most tender, innovative, and emotionally exigent books.
The so-called desert music becomes, among other things, an enactment and valuing of the âinescapable and insistentâ background soundscapes in our lives. Geographically, the poems of the title sequence are situated in the Chihuahua Desert, where Williams, after having suffered a stroke, travels between JuĂĄrez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.
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The four performance works documented in this book were each built through advance planning and spontaneous decisions, in response to the opportunities and constraints I anticipated and experiences in the process of composition. Each depends on live improvisation to verbalize content, themes, and manner throughout the performance itself.
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