22 And 50 Poems

by Cummings, E. E.; Firmage, George James

• ISBN13: 9780871401779
• ISBN10: 0871401770
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-17
• Publisher: Liveright

Summary

Appearing for the first time in a Liveright paperback edition, 22 and 50 Poems combines twenty-two new poems from Cummings's Collected Poems (1938) with his 50 Poems (1940). Included are such favorites as "My father moved through dooms of love" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town," along with the usual Cummings dazzle of satirical epigrams, love poems, and syntactical anagrams.This edition is published in a uniform format with Is 5, Tulips & Chimneys, ViVa, XAIPE, and No Thanks.

Table of Contents

New Poems [from Collected Poems] (1938)
Introduction	11	(2)
un	13	(1)
kind)	14	(2)
a football with white eyebrows the	16	(1)
(of Ever-Ever Land i speak	17	(1)
lucky means finding	18	(1)
Q:dwo	19	(1)
&-moon-He-be-hind-a-mills	20	(1)
this little bride & groom are	21	(1)
so little he is	22	(1)
nor woman (just as it be	23	(1)
my specialty is living said	24	(1)
The Mind's(	25	(1)
if i	26	(1)
hanged	27	(1)
economic secu	28	(1)
beware beware beware	29	(1)
only as what(out of a flophouse)floats	30	(1)
must being shall	31	(1)
may my heart always be open to little	32	(1)
the people who	33	(1)
porky & porkie	34	(1)
you shall above all things be glad and young	35	(4)
Poems (1940)
Dedication	38	(1)
!blac	39	(1)
fl	40	(1)
If you can't eat you got to	41	(1)
nobody loved this	42	(1)
am was. are leaves few this. is these a or	43	(1)
flotsam and jetsam	44	(1)
moan	45	(1)
the Noster was a ship of swank	46	(1)
warped this perhapsy	47	(1)
spoke joe to jack	48	(1)
red-rag and pink-flag	49	(1)
(will you teach a	50	(1)
proud of his scientific attitude	51	(1)
the way to hump a cow is not	52	(1)
mrs	53	(1)
)when what hugs stopping earth than silent is	54	(1)
youful	55	(1)
ecco a letter starting ``dearest we''	56	(1)
there is a here and	57	(1)
harder perhaps than a newengland bed	58	(1)
six	59	(2)
nouns to nouns	61	(1)
a pretty a day	62	(1)
these people socalled were not given hearts	63	(1)
as freedom is a breakfastfood	64	(1)
wherelings whenlings	65	(2)
buy me an ounce and i'll sell you a pound	67	(2)
there are possibly 2 1/2 or impossibly 3	69	(1)
anyone lived in a pretty how town	70	(2)
the silently little blue elephant shyly(he was terri	72	(1)
not time's how(anchored in what mountaining roots	73	(1)
newlys of silence	74	(1)
one slipslouch twi	75	(1)
my father moved through dooms of love	76	(3)
you which could grin three smiles into a dead	79	(1)
i say no world	80	(2)
these children singing in stone a	82	(1)
love is the every only god	83	(1)
denied night's face	84	(1)
a peopleshaped toomany-ness far too	85	(1)
up into the silence the green	86	(1)
love is more thicker than forget	87	(1)
hate blows a bubble of despair into	88	(1)
air	89	(1)
enters give	90	(1)
grEEn's d	91	(1)
(sitting in a tree-)	92	(1)
mortals)	93	(1)
i am so glad and very	94	(1)
what freedom's not some under's mere above	95	(2)
Afterword	97