In asking "Who, as a writer, am I?", E.E. Cummings's affirmation of life resolved into serenity as he described himself as someone "whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow." This collection of Cummings reading his own poetry embodies this in an unforgettable way.
 While perhaps best remembered for his use of such visual devices as typography and punctuation, the sheer sound of Cummings's work imparts a greater, deeper understanding of how its cadences reveal its profound meaning. This rich sampling of his poems is rendered in what the great Robert Graves called Cummings's "own beautifully modulated voice."

Essential E.E. Cummings CD

Literature & Fiction

CUMMINGS, E.E.

Dramas & Plays

Caedmon

In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room, his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved.
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The Enormous Room (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin Classics

Librarian note: pages were hand counted from table of contents to last poem.\nThis selection from Cummings' first six books of poetry - Tulips and Chimneys (1923), XLI (1925), & (And) (1925), Is 5 (1926), W (Viva) (1931), No Thanks (1935) - also contains some additional poems and an introduction.\nLater volumes by Cummings include: 50 Poems (1940); 1 X 1 (1941); Poems: 1923-1954, the first complete edition of all the poems up to 1954 from all his published collections of verse (1955); 95 Poems, poems written since 1954 (1958); and 73 Poems, poems written since 1958 (1963).\n"E.E. Cummings was unique among the poets of his time because he was equally superb in satire and in sentiment. He was merciless toward pretense and pomposity and he was unsparing of those who think war is a good thing; at the same time he had the finest lyric gift, particularly on the theme of love. I consider him to be on of the most moving love poets of all time." - Mark Van Doren

Collected Poems

Harcourt

This complete collection includes almost 600 lyric poems from E. E. Cummings' first books

Poems, 1923-1954

Harcourt,Brace&World,Inc

Harcourt, 1969. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # P11015180575X

Selected Letters of e. e. cummings

Harcourt,brace & World

Very slight signs of age or use. DJ is price clipped with one very small torn spot at top of front edge.

Seventy-Three Poems

History & Criticism

Fairy Tales

Four imaginative tales written by the distinguished poet for his young daughter.

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Voyager

A collection of new works by the popular poet exemplifying his talent with words and sound patterns

95 Poems

Poetry

A Selection of Poems [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1965] cummings, e. e. / introduction by Horace Gregory ...

E.E.Cummings: A Selection of Poems

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Books by CUMMINGS, E.E.

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Essential E.E. Cummings CD

The Enormous Room (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Collected Poems

Poems, 1923-1954

Selected Letters of e. e. cummings

Seventy-Three Poems

Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales

95 Poems

E.E.Cummings: A Selection of Poems