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Throughout the forty-five years of his professional writing life, Edward Estlin Cummings consistently celebrated the ordinary, reviled pretentiousness, scourged conformity, experimented boldly with words and syntax and punctuation, and wrote some of the most erotic and tender love poetry in the English language. Yet Cummings could also be difficult, truculent, opinionated, wrong-headed, emotional, bigoted and egotistical. Dubbed by Ezra Pound as "Whitman's one living descendant," Cummings sang of himself and of America in a unique voice, as resonant now as it was a half-century ago. <br> <br> Charismatic and famous among the famous, Cummings always seemed to be in the right place at the right time, and was a major presence wherever he resided, whether in Cambridge, Europe or New York. He counted some of the most important artists of his time as friends: Pound, Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and many more. <br> <br> "Sawyer-Lauçanno emphasizes the relation of the private man to his work, offering fresh insights into the grand optical arrangement of Cummings's books."--Starred Library Journal Review<br> <br> For nearly half a century, the personal papers, journals and diaries of Edward Estl

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Author

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno

Publisher

Sourcebooks, Incorporated

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570717758

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.22 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14