- Tall and Singularly Dark
- Alba (1952)
- Finally a Valentine
- O Sleep
- The Rains
- Rune
- Strange
- Daisy
- You Who Were Made for This Music
As an admirer of Louis Zukofsky’s poetry, I have often thought of setting it to music. This was encouraged by recently finding out that Ezra Pound was very impressed by it. So I chose nine short poems and set them for voice and clarinet, the last of which refers to his son Paul, the eminent violinist.
Elliott Carter