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Cummings produced two creative achievements in short order - "The Enormous Room" about his prison detention in France in World War I, and "Tulips & Chimneys" his groundbreaking book of poems, cementing his reputation as a generational talent.

Those who went to college then WWI in order to write about it were essentially in their 4th chapter of life by 1920 in their early 20s. Inasmuch as the Great War shattered the 20th century, this talented cohort was almost destined to join the fragments into a new arrangement. At page 200, Cummings is discharged from the army and back into the writing life in Greenwich Village.

Terrif look at Cummings' life. His intellectual progress is well documented all the way through the Harvard years.

Cummings had a remarkable childhood. Free, fun, supportive – the kind of childhood that would let anybody become who they could truly be.

Cummings had a wonderful childhood.