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"Is Five" by E. E. Cummings is a masterful collection that showcases his innovative poetic style through a rich tapestry of themes, imagery, and unconventional structures. The work begins with a playful foreword reflecting on poetry's nature and creation, setting a whimsical tone that permeates the collection. Cummings crafts vivid scenes and characters, capturing the complexities of human emotions and experiences while challenging traditional poetic forms. His poems invite a multifaceted ...

Vivid, joyful poetry and bright, whimsical artwork combine in a delightful picture book collection of E. E. Cummings’s verse that tracks the seasons of the year.Welcome to a marvelous almanac of E. E. Cummings’s poetry, from the showers, puddles, and birdsong of spring to the beaches and sun of summer, Halloween, November sunsets, snowfalls, and little silent Christmas trees. Now published as the first-ever picture book collection of Cummings’s poems and imagined f...

A master of modernist experimentation, e.e. cummings was one of the finest American poets of the Jazz Age. This collection features many of his greatest works including the long-form poem ‘Puella Mea’.Over 300 poems are featured in this volume of e.e. cummings’ collected poetry. The avant-garde writer is known for his experimentation with form, grammar, and typography. His work explores many themes that were considered taboo at the time, including eroticism, and hi...

A powerful and unconventional work of literary memoir, The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings recounts the author's experiences during a time of confinement and upheaval, offering a deeply personal reflection on freedom, individuality, and the resilience of the human spirit. Written with Cummings' distinctive stylistic innovation, the narrative blends vivid observation, poetic expression, and fragmented storytelling to capture life within a space defined by restriction yet filled with diverse...

"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."—Randall JarrellThe one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by...

Conventional grammar and syntax are ignored in this avant-garde poetry collection by the masterfully lyrical writer e.e. cummings, featuring 25 originally unpublished pieces from his first volume of poetry.Exploring traditional ideas of love, nature, and death, alongside examinations of sexuality, e.e. cummings’ third poetry collection highlights his talent for reviving classic and cliché poetic themes with a modern voice.Only 86 of the 152 poems in cumming...

The Enormous Room is E. E. Cummings's vivid autobiographical account of imprisonment in a French detention camp during the First World War, after his association with a suspected antiwar companion brought him under suspicion. Neither conventional memoir nor straightforward novel, it proceeds through sharp portraits, ironic comedy, and lyrical intensities characteristic of literary modernism. Its "enormous room" becomes both a literal communal cell and a symbolic theatre of human variety, w...

The lauded poet E.E. Cummings writes with humor and mischief of his imprisonment in a WWI military detention camp in this autobiographical precursor to Catch-22 and MASH.In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, a recent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. He arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, and they set about living it up in the big city before hea...

An autobiographical novel of captivity in World War I France from a prize-winning literary icon.Working as an ambulance driver in the First World War, a young man is suddenly taken in by the authorities, along with his friend who has been targeted for his antiwar sentiments. This novel recounts E. E. Cummings's experience spending four months in an "enormous room" with other prisoners, enlivened by the people he meets and the events he witnesses in the midst of his...

One of the most important and popular American poets of the twentieth century, E. E. Cummings is best known for his brilliant and innovative verse and its distinctive lack of uppercase letters and conventional grammar. He was also a Cubist painter and a World War I veteran. At the age of twenty-three, he abandoned his artistic pursuits for voluntary service as an ambulance driver in France. His military career culminated in a comedy of errors leading to his arrest and imprisonment for trea...

This varied collection of early 20th-century verse brings together eight Harvard poets in a sequence of lyric, elegiac, and modernist poems shaped by love, memory, grief, and the haunting beauty of nature. From marshland longing and rain-soaked city streets to moonlit shores, moonrise, dawn, and distant landscapes, the speakers turn ordinary experience into something radiant, intimate, and emotionally charged. Imagination, music, and solitude recur as ways of transforming desire and loss i...

Intransigent and honest, e.e. cummings’ first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, is an early example of his masterful linguistic skill and artistic use of free verse.Over 80 poems are included in this prolific poetry collection, and many highlight early evidence of cummings’ famous experiments with form and grammar. The modernist poet enjoyed writing in avante-garde styles and would regularly disregard syntax rules or utilise his love of painting t...