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by: E. E. Cummings
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780871401656
ISBN: 0871401657
Label: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 188
Publication Date: 1996-07
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Sales Rank: 232641
Studio: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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In concise format, this is a collection of poems which celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest against the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.
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Rating: - A unique quality that was all his own
The poetry of E.E. Cummings is a pure example of the what the modernist period represented in American literature. Having been a volunteer with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps and prisoner of war during World War I, Cummings's poetry resonate his pre-war and aftermath experience as well as the artists and writers that influenced his work, Cubism and Post-Impressionism and Ezra Pound and Carl Sandburg. This is exhibited in one of Cummings's first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which ... Read More
Rating: - Cummings' best !
This book stands as Cummings' most playful spontaneous ecstatic intimate beautiful poems ever written.
Many of his later collections are too directly philosophical (all the abstractions can really make the poems more of a complex thinking exercise rather than a felt experience) & too syntactically disjointed (disjointed to the point in which frustration replaces giddy enjoyment) in my opinion. however This collection is honestly COMPELLING & practical while maintaining the experimental ... Read More
Rating: - The Picasso of Poetry
Having glanced at his work in the past, I didn't think I'd like Cummings' work at all. It seemed 'pastiche poetry', pretty words smattered all over a page with no connecting thread. I couldn't have been further from the truth; even his shortest pieces ("I Am Going To Utter A Tree..") Cummings sometimes archiac style is unmistakably his own. Some of his "Unrealities" blend poetic word salads with ingenious covert metaphor: ("be these haunters of dreams always demurely half smiling from cool faces..") Cummings ... Read More
Rating: - cummings en process
Tulips and Chimneys are poems which begin early in cummings carreer but are stunning in their simplicity, clarity and maturity. His erotocism, imagery and sensitivity to the beauty of nature manifest themselves in the juxtaposition of thought and its connection to his relationship to the physical environment as he has experienced it.
I love his flow of sense as it metamorphosizes through his words. It is never without deliberate meaning.
Tulips and Chimneys is a book to carry with ... Read More
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