A high-energy romp, the poet's prose memoir recounts his military service in World War I, when a comedy of errors led to his unjust arrest and imprisonment for treason.

"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...

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...

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...

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...

The complete collection of E. E. Cummings’s writing for the stage, from the most inventive poet of the twentieth century.The Theatre of E. E. Cummings collects in their entirety Cummings’s long out-of-print theatrical works: the plays HIM (1927), Anthropos (1930), and Santa Claus (1946), and the ballet treatment Tom (1935). In HIM, a creatively blocked artist and his lover, Me, struggle to bridge the impasse in ...

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...

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...

"The Enormous Room" is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917 his friend and colleague, William Slater Brown (known in the book only as B.), were arrested by French authorities as a result of anti-war sentiments B. had expressed in some letters. When questioned, Cummings stood by his friend and was also arrested. Cummings t...

"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 ...

The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison under suspicion of espionage-a circumstance he could have easily avoided had he professed a hatred of Germans. Instead, when questioned, Cummings answered French authorities in a way that insured that he would accompany his friend "B." (William Slater Brown), who was indeed guilty of writing letters critical of the French government. The psychologically te...

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 ...