Another E.E.Cummings - Softcover

Cummings, E. E.; Kostelanetz, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871401746 ISBN 13: 9780871401748

Publisher: Liveright, 2000

Synopsis

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 have: only to grow." To not read the avant-garde Cummings is to not read Cummings.

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Review:

"Dispensing with capital letters was the least of Cummings' avant-garde exploits, as this collection of the poet's more far-out essays in posie concrte, priapic lyricism and barking prose amply demonstrates." -- Steven Poole, The Guardian

About the Author:

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. He was also a playwright, a painter, and a writer of prose. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard University and, during World War I, served with an ambulance corps in France. He spent three months in a French detention camp and subsequently wrote The Enormous Room, a highly acclaimed criticism of World War I. After the war, Cummings returned to the States and published his first collection of poetry, Tulips & Chimneys, which was characterized by his innovative style: pushing the boundaries of language and form while discussing love, nature, and war with sensuousness and glee. He spent the rest of his life painting, writing poetry, and enjoying widespread popularity and success.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0871401746
• ISBN 13: 9780871401748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274