Jean Cocteau, Orphée [Orpheus}, André Paulvé and Les Films du Palais-Royal, 1950
Robert Creeley, [“Then silence/ is as silence was,”] “Waiting,” Words, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967
H.D., “The Walls Do Not Fall,” Trilogy, New Directions, 1973
Richard Daniels, dancer/choreographer, and Paula Kimper, musical composer, “Sky Panels” from Bonus Round, [“The Dance that We Made,”] first performed April 2, 2003, at the Connelly Theater, New York City
Dante [“Chi é costui che sanza morte,”] Inferno, Canto VIII
Robert Duncan [“Our uses are our illuminations,”] The H.D. Book, edited by Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman, University of California Press, 2011
D.H. Lawrence [“Why does the thin grey strand,”] “Sorrow,” Selected Poems, The Viking Press, 1961
Claude Lanzmann, Shoah, BBC and others, 1985
Fernando Obradors, “del cabello más sutil,” Elly Ameling, Serenata, Phillips
Marcel Proust, A Remembrance of Things Past, trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Vintage Books, 1982
William Shakespeare [“This sceptred isle,”] Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1
Aaron Shurin, “City of Men,” A’s Dream, O Books, 1989
Aaron Shurin, “Turn Around” with Ney Fonseca, first performed for Juntos Dance, Theatre Artaud, San Francisco, October 1992
Gertrude Stein [“Let me recite what history teaches,”] “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso,” Look at Me Now and Here I Am, Penguin Books, 1971
Richard Strauss, “Four Last Songs,” Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, George Szell conductor, EMI Classics
Giuseppe Verdi, Aida, Act IV, Scene 2, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Sony Classical
Walt Whitman, [“The Depositories,” “Strips and Streamers”] “Specimen Days”, Prose Works, 1892, New York University Press, 1963 and Leaves of Grass, Comprehensive Reader’s Edition, W.W. Norton & Co., 1965