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Summary: Great little book!
Review: This was given to me by a friend five years ago, and I keep coming back to to look at old favorites and learn new ones. The occasion today is that I want to order a copy to give to someone else. When you get this, check out "sonnet entitled how to run the world"... it's the best, although requires several readings. And know that despite all of the wierd punctuation, cummings' poems do work well when read aloud.
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Summary: Start Here
Review: You may have heard of this infamous poet - or even read one or two of his pieces so frequently called "avant garde." His imagery is startling and perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to make those images musical, as though they roll off the soul. If you've wanted to get a taste of Cummings and didn't know where to start, this is an affordable collection of some favorites. Well worth the inexpensive price - compact but filled with the choicest selections.
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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.
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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: 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: 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.
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.
Rating:
Summary: Start Here
Review: You may have heard of this infamous poet - or even read one or two of his pieces so frequently called "avant garde." His imagery is startling and perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to make those images musical, as though they roll off the soul. If you've wanted to get a taste of Cummings and didn't know where to start, this is an affordable collection of some favorites. Well worth the inexpensive price - compact but filled with the choicest selections.
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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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