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ignored in this avant-garde poetry collection by the masterfully lyrical writer e.e. cummings, featuring 25 originally unpublished pieces from his first volume of poetry.Exploring traditional ideas of love, nature, and death, alongside examinations of sexuality, e.e. cummings’ third poetry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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Discover the remarkable autobiographical novel The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings, inspired by the author's imprisonment during the First World War. Combining vivid observation, humor, and lyrical prose, Cummings transforms a difficult chapter of his life into a deeply human exploration of freedom, resilience, individuality, and hope. This enduring classic stands as one of the most distinctive memoirs of the twentieth century. Inside This Extraordinary Memoir: A Powerful Autobiographical ...

Published in 1925, XLI Poems showcases the experimental poetry of E. E. Cummings, one of the twentieth century's most innovative and beloved poets. Originally omitted from Tulips and Chimneys, these forty-one poems reveal the beginnings of a voice that would transform modern poetry.Filled with lyrical love poems, vivid nature imagery, playful humor, and striking visual experimentation, XLI Poems invites readers to experience language in entirely new ways....

"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...

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...

"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 ...

Fresh and candid, but turns earthy, defiant, and romantic, E. E. Cummings' poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.First published in 1931, ViVa contains four of E. E. Cummings' most experimental poems as well as some of his most memorable. The volume includes such no-famous celebrations as "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and "if there are any heavens my m...

“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 FitzgeraldThe 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 seri...