E.E. Cummings : a biography / Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno.
Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher, 1951-
2004
PS3505.U334 Z84 2004 (Mapit)
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Title E.E. Cummings : a biography / Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno.
Author Sawyer-Lauçanno, Christopher, 1951-
ISBN 1570717753 (alk. paper)
9781570717758 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2004.
Language English
Description xvi, 606 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Item Number 9781570717758
Call Number PS3505.U334 Z84 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 811/.52 B
Summary Throughout the 45 years of his professional writing life, Cummings consistently celebrated the ordinary, reviled pretentiousness, scourged conformity, experimented boldly with words and syntax and punctuation, and wrote some of the most erotic and tender love poetry in the English language. Yet Cummings could also be difficult, truculent, opinionated, wrong-headed, emotional, bigoted and egotistical. Dubbed by Ezra Pound as "Whitman's one living descendant," Cummings sang of himself and of America in a unique voice, as resonant now as it was a half-century ago. Charismatic and famous among the famous, Cummings always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, and was a major presence wherever he resided, whether in Cambridge, Europe or New York. He counted some of the most important artists of his time as friends: Pound, Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and many more.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-588) and index.
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Their son
In just- spring
Poet of simplicity
A smattering of languages, a first taste of independence, and the truest friends
The graduate student as poet
Poetic excursions
La guerre
Singing of Olaf and Elaine
Poet, painter, and papa in New York
The enormous room
Abroad
An American in Paris
Tulips and chimneys
Marriage and unmarriage
The life and times of Edward Seul
Anne
Him
Viva Cummings
Worlds of was (and is)
Carefully into growing and into being and into loving
Nourish my failure with thy freedom
Never the soft adventure of undoom
Freedom as breakfastfood
Allegiance only to the imagination
We know who we are
Xaipe and controversy
Ordeals by audience
When such marvels vanish
Steering for dream.

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