The second of a series of blog essays related to the performance of my setting of Wallace Stevens’ Sea Surface Full of Clouds.
In my first essay I promised some form of analysis of the poem and its musical setting. The poem is in five stanzas, each containing 18 symmetrically spaced lines. Here is the first stanza In that November off Tehuantepec The slopping of the sea grew still one night. And in the morning summer hued the deck …