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Of the 14 tracks on the CD: two of them are excerpts from Bowles's novels (tracks 1 and 13) six of them are Poems (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 14) two of them are from Travel Essays (track 3 - from 'Their Heads Are Green' and track 6 - from 'Points in Time') and four of them are from Short Stories (tracks 8, 9, 10 and 12.) Below, we give each track with first line of speech, with the earliest four appearances of the work with book details and purchase links with amazon. Please consider to buy your books with these links as this greatly assists our relief work in Morocco. Thank you. 01. 'Up Above the World' First Line: 'At some point in the night she had a dream. Or was it possible that she was partially awake' Read from novel of the same name, 'Up Above the World', Simon & Schuster, 1966, start at Page 156 please click here for more details of this book 02. 'Love Song' (written in 1940) First Line: 'The Head is where the cricket sings, the cheeks are what the teeth will bite' Published in the book of Poems 'Next to Nothing', Black Sparrow Press, 1981, start at Page 61 please click here for more details of this book 03. 'Baptism of Solitude' First Line: Immediately when you arrive in the Sahara for the first or the tenth time' Published in 'Holiday', Jan 1953 as 'The Secret Sahara', Page 70 Published in the Travel Essay book 'Their Heads Are Green', London, Peter Owen, 1963, Page 131 please click here for more details of this book 04. 'Each Whining Thing' (written in 1929) First Line: 'When striped snakes shall creep upon us and the nervous screams of birds' Published in the book of Poems 'The Thicket of Spring', Black Sparrow Press, 1972, Page 31 Published in the book of Poems 'Next to Nothing', Black Sparrow Press, 1981, Page 36 please click here for more details of this book 05. 'Next to Nothing' First Line: 'At first there was mud and the sound of breathing and no one was sure of where we were' Published in the book of Poems 'Next to Nothing', Black Sparrow Press, 1981, Page 65 please click here for more details of this book 06. 'Points in Time' First Line: 'The river flows fast at the mouth where the shore is made of the sky' Published in the Travel Essay book 'Points in Time', London, Peter Owen, 1982, Point XI, Page 89 please click here for more details of this book 07. 'Voyage en Egypte' First Line: 'Faire comme on veut, faire ce qu'il faut' Published in the book of Poems 'Next to Nothing', Black Sparrow Press, 1981, Page 37 please click here for more details of this book 08. 'The Delicate Prey' First Line: 'Driss stared up at him, a certain curiosity' Published in 'Zero Anthology' No. 2, 1949 Published in 'The Delicate Prey' Random House, 1950, Page 285 please click here for more details of this book Published in 'Collected Stories', Black Sparrow Press, 1979, Page 169 please click here for more details of this book Published in 'Pages from Cold Point' London, Peter Owen, Page 124 09. 'The Circular Valley' First Line: 'The Atlajala enjoyed both soldiers and bandits immensely' Published in 'A Little Stone', John Lehmann, 1950, Page 148 Published in 'The Delicate Prey', Random House, 1950, Page 128 please click here for more details of this book Published in 'Collected Stories', Black Sparrow Press, 1979, Page 116 please click here for more details of this book 10. 'A Distant Episode' First Line: 'It was growing fairly light, there were camels near where he was lying' Published in 'Partisan Review' January 1947 Published in 'New Directions: No.10', 1948, Page 273 Published in 'A Little Stone', John Lehmann, 1950, Page 216 Published in 'The Delicate Prey', Random House, 1950, Page 301 please click here for more details of this book 11. 'Delicate Song' (written in 1928) First Line: 'It was a long trip back. White lillies waved by walls' Published in the book of Poems 'The Thicket of Spring', Black Sparrow Press, 1972, Page 20 Published in the book of Poems 'Next to Nothing', Black Sparrow Press, 1981, Page 24 please click here for more details of this book 12. 'You are Not I' First Line: 'You are not I, no one but me could possibly be' Published in 'The Delicate Prey', Random House, 1950, Page 206 please click here for more details of this book Published in 'Collected Stories', Black Sparrow Press, 1979, Page 157 please click here for more details of this book 13. 'The Sheltering Sky' First Line: 'It was not a whole life whose loss she was mourning there in his arms' Published in 'The Sheltering Sky' New Directions, 1949, Pages: 218, then 221-223, then 227-228, then page 235 please click here for more details of this book 14. 'Nights' First Line: 'There have been times, what with this and that' Published in the book of Poems 'Next to Nothing', Black Sparrow Press, 1981, Page 73 please click here for more details of this book Index An Introduction to the music of Paul Bowles Classical music of Paul Bowles Avant-Garde and Spoken word recorded by Paul Bowles Various and Compilation Recordings recorded by Paul Bowles Recommended Paul Bowles music on CD About The 'Concerto for Two Pianos, Winds and Percussion' Go to the Index of Books of Paul Bowles Go the the Poetry of Paul Bowles Go to the Short Stories of Paul Bowles Home Dedicated to the life and work of Paul and Jane Bowles ©The International Paul Bowles Society, 2000