The term "H H Cummings" has been searched for 162 times on the American Poems site since October 7th, 2005.

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1. e.e. cummings

2. Judy Grahn

what i liked about e.e. cummings
was that he cut away from 
the holiness of the
word
and with charm
and gamble
gave us lines
that sliced through the
dung.

how it was needed!
how we were withering 
away
in the old
tired
manner.

of course, then came... (Read full poem)

(will you teach a
wretch to live
straighter than a needle)

ask
    her
        ask
            when
                (ask and
                ask
                and ask
again and)ask a
brittle little
person fiddling
in
the
rain

(did you kiss
a... (Read full poem)

speaking of love(of
which Who knows the
meaning;or how dreaming
becomes
   
if your heart's mind)i
guess a grassblade
Thinks beyond or
around(as poems are
   
made)Our picking it. this
caress that laugh
both quickly signify
life's only half(through... (Read full poem)

for David Lehman

I woke up this morning feeling
incredibly Gorky. So I made an appointment
to see my Doctorow. He said my Hemingways
looked a little swollen and sent me to
get an M.R. James and a complete Shakespeare.
By that time, I began... (Read full poem)

pity this busy monster,manunkind,

not.  Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victum(death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
-electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange;lenses extend

unwish through... (Read full poem)

F O R E W A R D

On the assumption that my technique is either complicated or original
or both, the publishers have politely requested me to write an intro-
duction to this book.
At least my theory of technique, if I have one, is very far... (Read full poem)

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