The Desert Music and Other Poems
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A near-fine copy with light toning to the spine of the jacket; a few small smudges on the cloth
- Seller
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Ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
The Desert Music shows William's continued evolution of the variable foot, his triadic "step-down-line" developed in the 1940s (particularly in Paterson). He based the concept on the idea that each line corresponds exactly to one single breath unit - unlike cadence, the length of the line corresponds to a colon, so it is an isocolic rhythmical pattern. It was, in his estimation, the culmination of a lifelong search for a new form of prosody. Included in The Desert Music is the superb poem "The Orchestra" ending with one of the poet's greatest condensations of his belief in the power of the artist: "THE BIRDS TWITTER now anew / but a design / surmounts their twittering. / It is a design of a man / that makes them twitter. / It is a design." Wallace A38. (410054).
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- Bookseller
- Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 410054
- Title
- The Desert Music and Other Poems
- Author
- WILLIAMS, William Carlos
- Book Condition
- Used - A near-fine copy with light toning to the spine of the jacket; a few small smudges on the cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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