Here are the works we’ll be looking at for the next couple of months. We’ll be focusing on two American poets of the 20th century:

Wallace Stevens

• The Poems of Our Climate
• Of Mere Being
• The Course of a Particular
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
• Domination of Black
• Nomad Exquisite
• Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself
• The Idea of Order at Key West
• The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
• The Snow Man
• Sunday Morning
• Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
• Of Modern Poetry
• Auroras of Autumn

William Carlos Williams

• The Act
• The Savage Beast
• Raindrops on a briar
• The words lying idle
• Picture of a nude in a machine shop
• The stylist
• A place (any place) to transcend all places
• New Mexico
• The horse show
• The three graces
• 3am The girl with the honey colored hair
• The girl
• The gentle rejoinder
• Turkey in the straw
• The wrong door
• The artist
• The drunk and the sailor
• Construction
• Cezanne
• The loving dexterity
• The chrysanthemum
• Song
• The children
• The gossips
• Portrait of a woman at her bath
• To my friend Ezra Pound

Plus two roughly contemporary American orchestral pieces.

• Quiet City – Aaron Copland
• Knoxville: Summer of 1915 – Samuel Barber