The Desert Music and Other Poems was a 1954 Random House book collecting 1949-54 poems by the American modernist poet/writer William Carlos Williams.

[1] Desert Music was written after Williams recovered from a stroke in 1952.

Except for the title poem, all the pieces here are in triadic stanza form (with slight exceptions), as in the opening of "The Descent": The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned.

Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even Parts of "Theocritus: Idyl I" and "The Orchestra" were used in The Desert Music, a composition for chorus and orchestra or voices and ensemble by Minimalist composer Steve Reich in 1984.

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