Synopses & Reviews
Cummings's ninth book of poems, , was first published in 1944. The poems in have as their theme "oneness and the means (one times one) whereby that oneness is achieved--love," in the words of Cummings's biographer Richard S. Kennedy. Besides new expressions of universal concerns, Cummings writes here in a lyric and optimistic mode, drawing portraits of people dear to him in New Hampshire and New York City's Greenwich Village. This new edition joins other individual uniform Liveright paperback volumes drawn from the , most recently and and .
Synopsis
Cummings's ninth book of poems, One Times One, was first published in 1944. The poems in One Times One have as their theme oneness and the means (one times one) whereby that oneness is achieved--love, in the words of Cummings's biographer Richard S. Kennedy. Besides new expressions of universal concerns, Cummings writes here in a lyric and optimistic mode, drawing portraits of people dear to him in New Hampshire and New York City's Greenwich Village. This new edition joins other individual uniform Liveright paperback volumes drawn from the Complete Poems, most recently Etcetera and 22 and 50 Poems.
Synopsis
A paperback collection newly offset from with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.
About the Author
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. His many awards included an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Bollingen Prize. Among his many volumes are The Enormous Room and Tulips & Chimneys.