Edward Estlin Cummings

A collection of the modern poet's work shows his use of satire and sentiment in unconventional verse styles

Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Selected Poems, 1923-1958

A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.

95 Poems

Poems from each period of the poet's career show his development as a writer and the major themes of his works, including the celebration of love and delight in natural phenomenon.

The Unpublished Poems

Etcetera

"Cummings...at his most unfoolish and poetic best."—Nation

73 Poems

Four tales include "The Old Man Who Said 'Why'," "The Elephant & The Butterfly," "The House That Ate Mosquito Pie," and "The Little Girl Named I."

Fairy Tales

The American poet records his struggles with the creative process against the events of his early life.

Six Nonlectures

Antonio Figueras

José Casas Risco

Miguel Ángel Muñoz Sanjuán

antología poética, 1910-1962

Buffalo Bill ha muerto

E. E. Cummings

1 X 1

A Selection of Poems

Combines twenty-two new poems from Cummings' "Collected Works" and the entirety of "50 poems," showcasing his satirical epigrams, love poems, and syntactical anagrams.

22 and 50 Poems

A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.

The Unpublished Poems of E.E. Cummings

The Original 1922 Manuscript with the 35 Additional Poems from & [i.e. Ampersand]

Tulips and Chimneys

Edward Estlin Cummings nació en Cambridge, Massachusetts, el 14 de octubre de 1894 y murió en Madison, New Hampshire, el 3 de septiembre de 1962. Su padre, Edward Cummings, fue profesor de Harvard, universidad en la que estudió el poeta y en cuyas revistas literarias publicó sus primeros versos. La obra de Cummings, quien se distinguió también como pintor, es vastísima: más de una decena de poemarios, cuatro obras de teatro y varias de narrativa entre las que destaca su novela The Enormous Room, inspirada en sus vivencias europeas durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. La poesía de e.e. cummings ha ido ganando adeptos con el paso de los años, a pesar de que se le ha acusado de intraducible y caprichoso, por su manía de violentar los convencionalismos idiomáticos. Cummings solía alterar el tradicional orden de la oración y la morfología y el significado de las palabras, desvirtuaba la función de los signos ortográficos y, además, era inconsistente en sus propias mañas y grafías. Por ejemplo, usaba de manera muy arbitraria la mayúscula y la minúscula al comienzo de las frases y en la escritura de algunos vocablos, como «primavera», «abril» y los pronombres personales. Y eso es lo que nota (y aborrece) el que se acerca por primera vez a su poesía. Pero quien persevere en su lectura decubrirá que esas extravagancias son sólo travesuras de un creador genial, difícil de ubicar en una específica escuela o clasificación: un gran artista que expresa con lirismo y sensualidad su fascinante caudal poético, sin afiliarse a ninguno de los «ismos» de su época. Cummings marcó un hito en la literatura norteamericana y hoy se le considera uno de los más importantes poetas del siglo XX. JUAN CUETO-ROIG

cuarenta y cuatro poemas

En época de lilas

Puella Mea

Poems - Gedichte

Marc Chagall

MAY I FEEL SAID HE is the third installment in Welcome's Art and Poetry Series, which celebrates the passions of life through unique pairings of words and art. Not intended for the immature, Cummings's poem is a sensually ecstatic tribute to love and the often humorous mating rituals of men and women. When coupled with Chagall's dreamlike images of floating lovers, circus performers, and mythical animals, this erotically charged ode achieves a visual and physical dimension that reinforces its underlying themes of expression, joy, and fulfillment.

Poem

May I Feel Said He

Heidi Goennel

The well-known cummings poem concerns the special joys and fears of childhood.

In Just-spring

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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