男人、女人和鬼魂-Men, Women and Ghosts:
This is a book of stories. For that reason I have excluded all purelylyrical poems. But the word "stories" has been stretched to its fullestapplication. It includes both narrative poems, properly so called; talesdivided into scenes; and a few pieces of less obvious story-telling import in which one might say that the ramatis personae are air, clouds, trees, houses, streets, and such like things. It has long been a favourite idea of mine that the rhythms of `verslibre- have not been sufficiently plumbed, that there is in them a power of variation which has never yet been brought to the light of experiment. Ithink it was the piano pieces of Debussy, with their strange likeness to short vers libre poems, which first showed me the close kinship of musicand poetry, and there flashed into my mind the idea of using the movement of poetry in somewhat the same way that the musician uses the movement of music.