by E.E. Cummings
Another monumental tome of poetry completed! Cummings is confirmed as one of my favourite lyric poets, though, given his mature style, one can't really imagine singing a lot of them successfully. Technical aspects of his work have been much discussed; typographical and punctuational elements becam...
anyone lived in a pretty how town(with up so floating many bells down)spring summer autumn winterhe sang his didn’t he danced his did.Women and men(both little and small)cared for anyone not at allthey sowed their isn’t they reaped their samesun moon stars rainchildren guessed(but only a fewand down...
Just one of many volumes of poetry that have not received the attention they deserve. There is a long way to go with this one.
who knew? cummings writes some of the sexiest love poems around. move over Barry White. No. seriously. Move OVER.
Accept no substitutes. One of the few poetry books we had in my house when I was growing up, and one of my most dear.