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Confined to a private edition for decades, a forthcoming Cummings volume sheds further light on his prodigious vision and imagination. Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings's groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to "a cluster of epigrams," forty-nine essays, a poem, and three speeches from an unfinished play. Seven years later, George J. Firmage— editor of much of Cummings's work, including Complete Poems— broadened the scope of this idiosyncratic collection of Cummings's work, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings's unpublished line drawings. Together, these pieces paint a distinctive portrait of Cummings's eccentric, yet precise, genius. His essays explore everything from Cubism to the circus, equally quick to analyze his poetic contemporaries and satirize New...

Author
E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Published
2018
Language
EN
ISBN
9780871403940

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