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ignored in this avant-garde poetry collection by the masterfully lyrical writer e.e. cummings, featuring 25 originally unpublished pieces from his first volume of poetry.Exploring traditional ideas of love, nature, and death, alongside examinations of sexuality, e.e. cummings’ third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

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...

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...

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....

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...

Darkly humorous and intensely energised, this fictionalised autobiography is a major work of World War I literature and is e.e. cummings’ most notable novel.It’s late August 1917, and in the midst of the raging Great War, a soon-to-be-famous modernist poet, e.e. cummings, is arrested by the French authorities on suspicion of espionage. While volunteering as an ambulance driver with the US military, cummings was imprisoned alongside his friend and fellow writer, Wil...

Controversial and passionate, XLI Poems is e.e. cummings’ second masterful poetry collection, complete with 41 poems that were originally disregarded by publishers.Of the 152 poems included in e. e. cummings’ original manuscript for his first poetry collection, Tulips and Chimneys (1923), only 86 were published. 41 of the omitted pieces were published two years later in XLI Poems. Although written at the same time as his previous collecti...

e.e. cummings’ fourth poetry collection demonstrates his skilled modernist voice and unmatched ability to test the limitations of the English language.First published in 1926, is 5 contains 88 poems in cummings’ distinctively complex style. Featuring satirical work, many experimental pieces, and several anti-war poems, this volume is a collection of modernist poetry that explores classic poetic themes.This volume’s title is the first hint of e. e. ...

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...

One of the most important and popular American poets of the 20th 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 23, 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 treason, as he memo...

Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962), a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Harvard University graduate, is best known for his rejection of traditional poetic forms. As e. e. cummings, he conducted radical experiments with spelling, syntax, and punctuation that inspired a revolution in twentieth-century literary expression and excited the admiration and affection of poetry lovers of all ages.With his 1923 debut, Tulips & Chimneys, the 25-year-old poet rattled the conser...

The Enormous Room is a famous autobiographical novel written by the American author E.E. Cummings. The book centers around Cummings’ temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. This edition includes a table of contents.