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E. E. Cummings

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...

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E. E. Cummings

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...

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E. E. Cummings

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...

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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...

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E. E. Cummings

"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...

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E. E. Cummings

Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.

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E. E. Cummings

"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 ...

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E. E. Cummings

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....

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e. e. cummings

e.e. cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of cummings’s wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which cummings is famous. They demonstrate bea...

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E. E. Cummings

In Great War-era France, E. E. Cummings is lifted, along with his friend B., from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross, and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour, la soupe, and his mattress in The Enormous Room, the male prisoners' communal cell. It's these prisoners whom Cummings describes in lurid detail.The Enormous Room is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary. Cummings' descript...

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E. E. Cummings

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...

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E. E. Cummings

A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.The poems in Etcetera were discovered in three Cummings manuscript collections and selected from more than 350 unpublished pieces. Many of the poems are from his early years and all convey his freshness and youthful spirit, exhibiting his celebration of love and delight in common natural phenomena. Etcetera was first published...