Selected Songs.

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Soundings Press, 1972. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. Very good; wraps, quarto. 169 pp. "Researched, edited and produced by Peter Garland with the supervision of the composer." With a preface by Virgil Thomson and a biographical statement by Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Contents: Previously published songs. "A little closer, please," William Saroyan; "On a quiet conscience," Charles I; "David," Frances Frost; "In the woods," Paul Bowles; "Letter to Freddy," Gertrude Stein; "Three," from Blue Mountain Ballads: "Lonesome Man," "Sugar in the Cane," Tennessee Williams; "Farther from the Heart," Jane Bowles. Previously unpublished songs. "Cancionilla," "Media Luna," "Balada Amarilla," "Murío al Amanecer," Federico Garcia Lorca; "Song for my sister," "Night without sleep," Charles Henri Ford; "April fool baby," Gertrude Stein; "This place of fire," D. H. Lawrence; "Voici la Feuille," "In the platinum forest," Paul Bowles; Three pastoral songs: "Down in yonder meadow," Anonymous; "The feathers of the willow," Canon Dixon; "The piper," Seamus O'Sullivan; from Green Songs: "Grass," "Moon," "Silence," Richard Thoma; "They cannot stop death," Joe Massey; "Mes de Mayo," Anonymous; "The heart grows old," Villiers David; "Her head on the pillow," Tennessee Williams; Gothic Suite: "Testa dell' Efebo," "San Sebastiano di Sodoma," "The Goths," "Faint as leaf shadow," "Death is high," Tennessee Williams; "My sister's hand in mine," Jane Bowles; "Secret words," Paul Bowles; Three guitar transcriptions, by Benjamin Yarmolinsky.