Words and music are inextricably linked for Ned Rorem. Time Magazine has called him the world's best composer of art songs." A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music this volume presents a collection of 14 songs on different American poets for voice and piano. Contents: As Adam Early in the Morning (Walt Whitman) Early in the Morning (Robert Hillyer) I am Rose (Gertrude Stein) Memory (Theodore Roethke) My Papa's Waltz (Theodore Roethke) Night Crow (Theodore Roethke) O You Whom I Often and Silently Come (Walt Whitman) Root Cellar (Theodore Roethke) Sally's Smile (Paul Goodman) See How They Love Me (Howard Moss) Snake (Theodore Roethke) Such Beauty As Hurts to Behold (Paul Goodman) The Waking (Theodore Roethke) Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night (Walt Whitman) "