The lyrics of the piece will be grounded in the world of representation. As I have said, local experience is extremely important to the piece of music. Who better writes of local experience than American modernist poet William Carlos Williams? In his work Paterson, the town Paterson, New Jersey, becomes a realm of collective experience, weaving together the everyday and history. His other books like Al Que Quiere!, Sour Grapes and Spring and all touches all from women to children, to sparrows and their habits. The poems paint pictures of the local and provide a great inspiration for creating collective experience, and the essence of place. Observation and conversation become pure artistic means, allowing voices and characters to be heard.
Some of Williams poems can demonstrate this:
‘Apology’ and ‘Pastoral’ from Al Que Quiere! 
Section from Paterson Book One
William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems 1, 1909-1939 (Manchester, Carcanet, 2000)
William Carlos William, Patterson (Cambridge, New Directions, 1995)
Composing the North East 