Williams's "Danse Russe": text-audio alignment


During a reading recorded by Richard Wirtz Emerson at William Carlos Williams’s home on Ridge Road in Rutherford, New Jersey, the poet read "Danse Russe." PennSound now offers a text-audio alignment of the poem, by which you can follow the poet's voice as he performs the words. The recording was probably broadcast in Voices, om WOSU in Columbus, Ohio, on October 7, 1950.  PennSound's Williams page includes two other recordings of Williams reading this poem: another done at the Ridge Road house, in 1951; and the other, at a Berkeley, California reading, given in 1955.