AnOther E. E. Cummings

by Cummings, E. E.; Kostelanetz, Richard; Rocco, John

• ISBN13: 9780871401571
• ISBN10: 0871401576
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-17
• Publisher: Liveright

Summary

As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer not only in linguistic and typographic inventions, but also in sound and concrete poetry. But his prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically experimental. To read the avant-garde Cummings is to read a writer who consistently broke with established norms, "never to rest and never to have: only to grow." To not read the avant-garde Cummings is to not read Cummings.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii	(2)
Introduction	xv
Deviant Traditional Verse	1	(42)
Erotic Poetry	43	(32)
Language Experiments	75	(64)
Visual Poetry and Sound Poetry	139	(28)
Texts Set to Music	167	(18)
Condensed Prose	185	(20)
Elliptical Narratives	205	(10)
A Book without a Title	215	(6)
Film Scenario	221	(8)
Translation	229	(14)
Arts Criticism	243	(22)
Self-Prefaces	265	(18)
To Ezra Pound	267	(1)
Nonlecture Four: I & You & Is	268	(9)
Introduction to The Enormous Room	277	(3)
Why Do You Paint?	280	(1)
No Thanks	281	(2)
Memoir	283	(24)
To Whom It May Concern	285	(2)
From The Enormous Room	287	(5)
From Eimi	292	(11)
To S. Foster Damon	303	(4)
Index of Poems by Opening Lines and Titles	307