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AnOther E.E. Cummings

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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.


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.

Summary

An eye-opening selection of Cumming's more avant-garde poetry and prose.

Product details

Authors Kostelanetz Richard, Richard Kostelanetz, E. E. Cummings
Assisted by Richard Kostelanetz (Editor)
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 15.03.2000
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama
 
EAN 9780871401748
ISBN 978-0-87140-174-8
Dimensions (packing) 14.2 x 20.8 x 2.3 cm
Weight (packing) 415 g
 
Subjects POETRY / General
Poetry by individual poets
Poetry / poems by individual poets
 

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