The Enormous Room (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
In the autumn of 1917, zealous French police arrested two American ambulance corpsmen on suspicion of spying. One of the men was Edward Estlin Cummings, a young Harvard graduate and aspiring poet. The two were spent three months in the squalid detention center of La Ferté-Macé in Normandy....
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In the autumn of 1917, zealous French police arrested two American ambulance corpsmen on suspicion of spying. One of the men was Edward Estlin Cummings, a young Harvard graduate and aspiring poet. The two were spent three months in the squalid detention center of La Ferté-Macé in Normandy. Cummings' fellow prisoners--the Machine-Fixer, the Zulu, the Young Skipper's Mate, the Wanderer, the Lobster--presented a human pageant reminiscent of Chaucer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780760779040 (076077904X)
Publish date: May 11th 2006
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
Poetry,
France
"But if he could describe it all He would be an artist. But if he were an artist there would he deeper wounds Which he could not describe."--from "Silence" by Edgar Lee MastersI discovered that poem when I was younger, and those lines at the end of a stanza about a former solider who's unable to...
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