false <![CDATA[100 Selected Poems by e. e. Cummings]]> 76889 3 <div>e.e. cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of cumming's wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which cummings is famous. They demonstrate beautifully his extrapolations from traditional poetic structures and his departures from them, as well as the unique synthesis of lavish imagery and acute artistic precision that has won him the adulation and respect of critics and poetry lovers everywhere. "e.e. cummings is a concentrate of titanic significance, 'a positive character'; and only ingenuousness could attempt to suggest in a word the 'heroic' aspect of his painting, his poems, and his resistances. He does not make aesthetic mistakes."-Marianne Moore; "To my way of thinking cummings is, within his field of personal emotion, the lyrical field, one of the inventors of our time. He puts his inventions down with an unexpected refurbishing of phrase and a filigree delicacy of hairbreadth exact statement that is a continual challenge."-John Dos Passos; "No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive both to the general and the special reader; since the early twenties, cummings has been more widely imitated and easily appreciated than any other modernist poet."-Randall Jarrell; "He has more control over language than any poet since Joyce. . . . Everybody delights in reading him."-Karl Shapiro. </div> 1140 book 10 1 1959 100 Selected Poems by e. e. Cummings total:2287|5:1281|4:721|3:248|2:31|1:6| 2287 10101 2792 143 5 1 false false Tue Apr 15 05:43:07 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 05:07:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1969 Fri Apr 17 06:03:20 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 06:07:18 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 10:02:48 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 22:32:39 -0800 2008 and trudges up to ignorance again;

--e. e. cummings

I feel like something just fell of the shelf inside me. I sat down planning to work my through this collection at a ten-a-day pace, and I finished it in two sittings, reading each poe...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 17 23:33:14 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 12 14:26:43 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 11:18:24 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 17:43:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 29 15:20:28 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 07 21:30:09 -0800 2008 His diction is the first thing that pops up at any first-time reader. He mixes word...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 15 10:46:36 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 10:46:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 18:11:29 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 07:10:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Sat Dec 29 11:34:12 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 11:35:28 -0800 2007
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or which i cannot touch because they are too near

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There is some etymological relationship, though probably apocryphal, between the word 'et cetera' and the words denoting a particular family of lutelike stringed instruments, such ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 04 10:59:56 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 11:01:24 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 17:24:20 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 17:26:16 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=76889