95 Poems
A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.
Published in 1958, 95 Poems is the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime. Remarkable for its vigor, freshness, interest in ordinary individuals, and awareness of the human life cycle, the book reflects Cummings's observations on nature and his prevailing gratitude for whatever life offers: "Time's a strange fellow: more he gives than takes." This new edition joins other individual uniform Liveright paperback volumes drawn from the Complete Poems, most recently Etcetera and 22 and 50 Poems.
Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894, the son of a Unitarian minister. Educated at Harvard, in 1917 he moved to Greenwich Village in New York City and began to write poetry and paint. In June of that year he went to France as a Red Cross volunteer with the ambulance corps and was soon arrested and imprisoned, though not charged with a crime, in a French concentration camp. That experience inspired his autobiographical novel, The Enormous Room, which was published in 1922. The next year Tulips and Chimneys, the first of his many volumes of poetry, appeared. It is for his typographically creative poetry that he is best known, but Cummings also painted and wrote expressionist…
when the world is puddle-wonderful
E. E. Cummings
A Miscellany
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings;George James Firmage-Editor;Stephen Dunn-Introduction
The Enormous Room
E E Cummings;Susan Cheever
The Theatre of E E Cummings
E E Cummings;Norman Friedman;George Firmage
Erotic Poems
E E Cummings;George J FirmageEimi
E E Cummings;Norman Friedman
Selected Poems of E E Cummings
E E Cummings
Fairy Tales
E E Cummings
Xaipe
E E Cummings
73 Poems
E E Cummings