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73 Poems E E Cummings (Faber paperbacks)

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if poetry were fun

and not crushed

(english classes say

desks should be small

and never written on)

and not cramped

by rules or meter

or other things you can

(feel)

only talk about

if poems were made

(only as cups are made

to hold water and wine)

only to hold images

and feelings and

the feeling that

things will only end

(when they should)

and if you were meant

to read these

and they

--rustle; quiet; rustle--

to read you

then you

would find this book

(this incomparably beautiful

little book)

and you would a

find a tree

(together)

and you would sit down

beneath it

and lock eyes

and be happy

This collection utterly brilliant in many ways, but the poems do not contain the same multi-toned language or endless imagery of so many of his earlier ones, or the satirical tone of others.

He does however, explore a wider range of subjects and sentiments.

All in all, it certainly outdoes the later work of authors like Lawrence Ferlinghetti (who is actually still alive), Allen Ginsberg, and WIlliam Wordsworth.