{"value"=>"<p>Subdivided into Music, Poetry, and Prose. While the poetry and prose works adhere to a basically chronological arrangement, an alphabetical arrangement was selected for the music files. The latter decision is due to the richness and volume of these musical materials. Some of the songs are represented by so many versions of the scores or lyrics that a chronology might have veiled rather than revealed a pattern. In the container listing, the date that appears in parenthesis after a particular song score or lyric represents only the earliest located date. As such it might appear on one version of the work itself or it might derive from copyright registry forms. Dates on the works themselves generally appear in a much fuller form than is indicated in the inventory. The author-composer's habit was to document not only the day, month and year of a composition but most often also the precise time of day. Parenthetic titles are for principal alternative forms and do not attempt to include all minor variations.</p> <p>The title by title listing of Wallace's songs in this inventory indicates an extraordinary breadth of subject matter. The Poetry, gathered in basically chronological files represents virtually identical fields of interest, at least until the late 1960s and 1970s. During this latter period political and racial themes predominate. The Prose works, fewer in number than the other forms, stress autobiographical, political and racial themes.</p>"}