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Summary: Excellent..
Review: A few months ago a friend of mine sent me the poem "may i feel said he" (the thirty-eighth poem in this book) in an email and I found it extremely witty and funny.I bought this book purposely for that single one and in doing so managed to get another ninety-nine wonderful poems. Cummings writes with such an imaginitive and intelligent style. You can't help being charmed and inspired at the same time. A great starting point for anyone interesting in his poems. may i feel said he..i'll squeal said she..just once said he..it's fun said she..may i touch said he..how much said she..a lot said he..why not said she..let's go said he..not too far said she..what's too far said he..where you are said she..may i stay said he..which way said she..like this said he..if you kiss said she..may i move said he..is it love said she..if you're willing said he..but you're killing said she..but it's life said he..but your wife said she..now said he..ow said she..tiptop said he..don't stop said she..on no said he..go slow said she..cccome?said he..ummm said she..you're divine!said he..you are Mine said she
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Summary: One of the best
Review: Cummings is one of the best American minor poets. He invents a language, a style a way of saying things all his own. And he does this in memorable lines and with his own kind of beauty. "What of a much of a which of a wind " " There's a hell of a universe ,next door. Let's Go" " I sing of Olaf, glad and big " " Nothing not even the rain has such small hands" The style is magnetic and there is a most individualistic celebration of life and love.
Appealing. But without the largeness of Whitman or the mind of Dickinson or the music of Stevens,it is not at the very highest level.
And also sharing with Pound and Eliot, and to a lesser degree Hemingway and Fitzgerald the Anti- Semitism of his time which makes it therefore almost impossible for me to read the stuff with uncritical joy as I would like to.
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Summary: Nice Collection
Review: E. E. Cummings is a clever word shark who finds the sublime in the most unusual ways. I always come back to him - even after reading the likes of Eliot, Rilke, Thomas - he is always equally profound and amusing a figure to me. I recommend reading his poetry out loud to capture its full essence - the sound is so vitally important.
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Summary: a critc knows the way, but can't drive the goddamn car..
Review: i don't know why so many people hate e.e. cummings. is it because he was so unconventional or because he didn't want his poetry placed in a box ? i'd have to say that he and amiri baraka are the two poets who have deeply influenced my work. his insanity with wordplay and the music of his language is stunning. " somewhere my eyes have never travelled " is one of the coolest love poems i've ever read. and cummings love poetry is equal to neruda's in passion. buy this book and fall asleep reading it...
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Summary: An independent voice
Review: I've loved e e cummings since I first read him in school. The older I get the better I love these poems. No one wrote like him. The punctuation, the word choice, coinages, and the symbolism were all completely personal. They are also accessible poems that most people (except usually the close minded) can understand. It's death to try to imitate him, because his style was so completely his own.
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Summary: Romantic and crystalline
Review: sometimes specifics are unnecessary. truly great art somehow transcends all assessment. it simply IS...and its admirers can simply luxuriate in its ineffable perfection. this volume of cummings' work captures the exquisite moments of love in bloom -- sometimes worshipfully, more often with all the playfulness that new lovers share. joy radiates from every page, even when suffused with a sense of how fragile and temporal such moments are. a profound gratitude informs every piece, no matter how puckish. i read pieces from this collection whenever i need to feel young, or fresh, or renewed. oh yeah, and chicks dig it.
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Summary: Nice collection
Review: This is a great collection of ee cummings. I like the fact that its paper back and travable! I have written a million little notes in mine. You will enjoy this!
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Summary: Undeniably Classic
Review: This is the kind of book that makes poetry come alive. It is not the stuff of delicate little rhymes or cheesy soul searching; it is vibrant, alive, and overpowering.
e.e. cummings wrote poetry that still breathes and mingles with the people. It is not poetry intended to merely appeal to literary circles and bald headed critics (coughing ink, to quote Yeats), it is poetry written for the reader.
It is the type of poetry you read to people and share with people without embarrassment, without having to explain anything. It speaks for itself, and it speaks loud and clear.
This is something special, and I would highly recommend it to anybody interested in poetry or art of any kind.
Rating:
Summary: Undeniably Classic
Review: This is the kind of book that makes poetry come alive. It is not the stuff of delicate little rhymes or cheesy soul searching; it is vibrant, alive, and overpowering.
e.e. cummings wrote poetry that still breathes and mingles with the people. It is not poetry intended to merely appeal to literary circles and bald headed critics (coughing ink, to quote Yeats), it is poetry written for the reader.
It is the type of poetry you read to people and share with people without embarrassment, without having to explain anything. It speaks for itself, and it speaks loud and clear.
This is something special, and I would highly recommend it to anybody interested in poetry or art of any kind.
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Summary: A great introduction to e.e. cummings' work
Review: This slim volume is attractively packaged and presented, with a good range of his work arranged chronologically. Only 100 poems are reprinted here, a tiny drop in his total output. But they're the ones you know best, including the cowboy poem we all had to read in Texas in high school (WHY they made us read that one, when there were so many better that he wrote, I will never know). I have to admit, I like his earlier work much better -- the further it goes, the weirder his poetry gets, till idea is almost entirely divorced from form. But I got this as an introduction to his work, and it fulfills that role admirably. I felt I'd gotten a good idea of his range and technique, and that I'd seen the most important of his works. Those who want a basic e.e. cummings introduction will not be disappointed here.
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