Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his 1922 novel The Enormous Room. The following year he published his first collection of poetry. Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems and is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of th...

Après Paris, voici New York, une anthologie des meilleurs poèmes de E. E. Cummings consacrés à la Grande Pomme.C'est en 1917, à vingt ans, que Cummings découvre New York : la cité l'enthousiasme par sa vitalité et l'audace de ses gratte-ciel. Après un séjour à Paris, il s'installe en 1923 à Patchin Place, une impasse de Greenwich Village qu'il ne quittera plus.De sa fenêtre, le poète observe et interprète ce qui l'entoure....

L'anthologie qui rassemble les plus beaux poèmes et dessins érotiques d'E. E. Cummings, l'un des auteurs majeurs de la poésie américaine du XXe siècle, mais aussi des plus populaires.Tout au long de sa vie, Edward Estlin Cummings a composé des poèmes et des dessins érotiques avec une liberté de ton remarquable pour son temps. Pour lui, la crudité des corps et de la jouissance se présente au cœur même de l'aventure poétique.Des années 1920 aux années 1960, s...

Un Américain habité par Paris...Portrait d'" une ville fondée sur la vie ", par E. E. CummingsTout au long de sa vie, E. E. Cummings a été un " étranger habité par Paris ". Loin du pittoresque touristique, la Ville Lumière apparaît à ses yeux comme une alternative à ce qu'il déteste aux États-Unis. Indomptable, authentique, elle offre une introduction parfaite à son approche de la vie comme à la diversité de ses écritures.Quarante textes – lettres, ar...

"Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives-The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings."-F. Scott Fitzgerald The most notable work of fiction from our most beloved modernist poet, The Enormous Room was one of the greatest-yet still not fully recognized- American literary works to emerge out of World War I. Drawing on E. E. Cummings's experiences in France as a volunteer ambulance driver, this novel takes us through a series of mishaps that led to the poet's being...

Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hoard; ee cummings, Prose Jottings; Archibald Macleish, The Old Man To The Lizard; Ted Hughes, Six Young Men; May Swenson, Naked In Borneo; Marilyn Hacker, The Dark Twin; Kenneth Patchen, 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven; Edith Sitwell, An Old Woman; Theodore Roethke, The Bat. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.

An eye-opening selection of Cumming's more avant-garde poetry and prose.As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer not only in linguistic and typographic inventions, but also in sound and concrete poetry. But his prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically experimental. To read the avant-garde Cummings is to read a writer who consistently broke with established norms, "never to rest and never to ha...

We have two great novels this issue: William Le Queux’s The Rat Trap and Achmed Abdullah’s The Man on Horseback. Le Queux—often called the “Master of Mystery”—excels in this 1928 thriller. The story follows Frank Aylmer as he is drawn into a high-stakes web of international swindlers and murder—classic vintage espionage and suspense. And I cannot say enough great things about Achmed Abdullah, who is one of my favorite pul...

A análise de traduções de poesia é uma forma de estudo e de crítica metalinguística, e por meio dela pode-se refletir sobre aspectos fundamentais da linguagem poética tanto na língua de partida quanto na língua de chegada (CAMPOS, 2013). No caso da poesia concreta, em que elementos estruturais dos poemas ganham notório destaque, torna-se necessário realizar um estudo aprofundado das relações estabelecidas entre os termos, perceber suas nuances e os efeitos poéticos que cada escolha lexical...