essential 1904-1962 essentials nonlectures

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1 review
E. E. Cummings; Chris Raschka

Hyperion, 2001

The Tree as a true symbol of life
It is difficult to put into words the complex beauty of this book. If you are not familiar with the poetry of E.E. Cummings, this book will make you a surefire fan. The verse is sensitive, gentle and intimate. Beautifully paired with the whimsical, delicate and ever-bright illustrations by Mary Claire Smith, this book will sing to you and your child's hearts. There are very few stories about ...

Fairy Tales

8 reviews
E. E. Cummings, Meilo So

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2004

Surprisingly Edward Estlin, or not?
These fairy tales are beautifully nonsensical and touching to even those who are less than sentimental. They are precious, without any reservation using such a word. Each was evidently written with a careful, loving authorship and a sense of humor that without a doubt is the creative quirkiness of the poet Edward Estlin Cummings. If you know the poet, the tender, innocent personalness of these ...

100 Selected Poems

29 reviews
e. e. cummings

Grove Press, 1994

How Do You Like Your Blue Eyed Boy Now?
I got this book in a used bookstore that was owned by a "former hippie"...is there such a thing, I always felt once a hippie, always a hippie...I didn't even ask for him to recommend it to me, he just looked in my eyes and said, "Hey, man, do you want to read something great?" I read the whole book from cover to cover in the bookstore and I knew I had to have it as part of my collection. When ...

Essentials of Glycobiology

1 review
Ajit Varki, Richard D. Cummings, ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2008

A timely and thorough text
An outstanding comprehensive resource on the current areas of focus in glycobiology. Highly recommended to those seeking an overview of recent discoveries and future challenges as well as techniques employed by researchers in this rapidly expanding field

Selected Poems

11 reviews
E. E. Cummings

Liveright, 1994

"life is more true than reason will deceive"
This review is from a strictly prose guy, as poetry usually goes right over my head. In my efforts to understand poetry, I have discovered that the work of e.e. cummings breaks through the stylistic barriers that make many people shy away from poetry altogether. cummings' use of bizarre spacing, punctuation, and phrasings keeps the reader away from the "sing-song" routine that tends to damage the ...

Love

1 review
E. E. Cummings

Jump At The Sun, 2005

bad visual art
the poems were great but the pictures are rather distracting and have nothing to do with love what-so-ever

Essential E.E. Cummings CD (Caedmon Essentials)

Caedmon, 2007

In asking "Who, as a writer, am I?", E.E. Cummings's affirmation of life resolved into serenity as he described himself as someone "whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow." This collection of Cummings reading his own poetry embodies this in an unforgettable way. While perhaps best remembered for his use of such visual devices as typography and punctuation, the sheer sound of Cummings's work imparts a ...

E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

27 reviews
E. E. Cummings

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1994

e.e. cummings, a man after my likes
"E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems (1904-1962)" runs a thousand fifty pages long, not counting the first-line index. In those thousand pages, you get to know the man Cummings like he was your neighbor or even your drinking buddy. I read the book in two weeks: most of the poems were less than one page. Reading the book was like having a conversation with the man's spirit.

Voice of the Poet: e.e. cummings (Voice of the Poet)

2 reviews

Random House Audio Voices, 2005

Brilliant
What a magnificent poet. To hear his voice is just like traveling back in time. The wisdom is astounding.

May I Feel Said He (Art & Poetry)

6 reviews
E.E. Cummings

Welcome Books, 1995

WOW!
This is one of the most beautiful combinations of poetry and art. The poem is really quite beautiful. The art is inspirational. I don't knwo that I'd give it to a couple for their wedding though, cause the poem is about a man who is cheating on his wife....So don't take the advice of the other reviewer, the couple might look at you funny!

THE ENORMOUS ROOM
E E Cummings

The Modern Library, 1949

Modern Library Edition of a classic.

The Motet in the Age of Du Fay
Julie E. Cumming

Cambridge University Press, 2003

During the lifetime of Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1400-1474) the motet underwent a profound transformation. Because of the protean nature of the motet during this period, problems of definition have always stood in the way of a full understanding of this crucial shift. Through a comprehensive survey of the surviving repertory, Julie Cumming shows that the motet is best understood on the level of the subgenre. She employs new ideas about categories ...

95 Poems

4 reviews
E. E. Cummings

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2002

Accessible and Intriguing
Reviewing E. E. Cummings' poetry is challenging due to the complexity of line and phrase construction employed by Mr. Cummings. Instead, consider what it is: A short collection of poetry by one of the most influential English language poets of the last 50 years. This, for me, was enough to by "95 Poems." The poems have no titles except for numbers. While this might dismiss the need for a table of ...

Complete poems, 1913-1962

4 reviews
E. E Cummings

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1972

not just anybody...
'anybody lived in a pretty how town with up so floating many bells down' The poetry of ee cummings is something that most Americans gain exposure to during secondary school (and very rarely in the education of those outside America) -- he is often seen as an acceptable example of one who broke the rules -- rules, the teacher will often hasten to add, which must be mastered before they can be ...

Tulips & Chimneys

4 reviews
E. E. Cummings

Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1996

cummings en process
Tulips and Chimneys are poems which begin early in cummings carreer but are stunning in their simplicity, clarity and maturity. His erotocism, imagery and sensitivity to the beauty of nature manifest themselves in the juxtaposition of thought and its connection to his relationship to the physical environment as he has experienced it. I love his flow of sense as it metamorphosizes through ...

The Enormous Room (Penguin Classics)

12 reviews
e. e. cummings

Penguin Classics, 1999

An Enormous Achievement
Written by America's most inventive poet, "The Enormous Room" is a book of prose set in a French detention camp during World War One. It is a coming-of-age story in which events happen, not always to the narrator (E.E. Cummings), but to the inhabitants of a place that serves as a microcosm for all the folly and brutality of war itself. As a war narrative it is unique -- unlike Hemingway's ...

EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia
E. E. Cummings

Liveright, 2007

A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia. Unavailable for more than fifty years, EIMI finally returns. While sometimes termed a "novel," it is better described as a novelistic travelogue, the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s during the rise of the Stalinist government. Despite some contempt for what he witnesses, Cummings's narrator has an effective, occasionally ...

i--six nonlectures (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

4 reviews
e. e. cummings

Harvard University Press, 1991

"an artist, a man, a failure MUST PROCEED": an ars poetica
We learn here from the great Estlin Cummings, if we did not already know, that "Art is a mystery; all mysteries have their source in a mystery-of-mysteries who is love" (note the "who" denoting aliveness, as opposed to "which" denoting undeadness): "and if lovers may reach eternity directly through love herself, their mystery remains essentially that of the loving artist whose way must lie ...

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