Gobi Desert from , and those of the ranges from higher, though in a few cases they reach altitudes of . The elevations do not form continuous chains, but make up a congeries of short ridges and groups rising from a common base and intersected by a labyrinth of ravines, gullies, glens and basins. But the tablelands, built up of the horizontal red deposits of the Han-gai (Obruchev's Gobi formation) which are characteristic of the southern parts of eastern Mongolia, are absent here or occur only in one locality, near the Shara-muren river. They are greatly intersected by gullies or dry watercourses.
The Desert Music and Other Poems The Desert Music and Other Poems 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. It is now collected, along with "Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems" (1962) and "Journey to Love" (1955), in the New Directions paperback "Pictures from Brueghel and other poems by William Carlos Williams: Collected Poems 1950-1962". Except for the title poem, all the pieces here are in triadic stanza form (with slight exceptions), as in the opening of "The Descent": <poem> </poem> Parts of "Theocritus: Idyl I" and "The Orchestra" were