73 Poems [Paperback]

E. E. Cummings (Author), George James Firmage (Afterword), George Firmage (Author)

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Publication Date: August 18, 2003

"Cummings...at his most unfoolish and poetic best."—Nation

Four months after Cummings's death in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only in periodicals up to that time, make up 73 Poems. This is the final volume in Liveright's reissue of Cummings's individual volumes of poetry, with texts and settings based on E. E. Cummings: The Complete Poems 1904-1962.

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Cummings...at his most unfoolish and poetic best. -- Nation

About the Author

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. His many awards included an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Bollingen Prize. Among his many volumes are The Enormous Room and Tulips & Chimneys.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Liveright (August 18, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871401835
• ISBN-13: 978-0871401830
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,173,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. His many awards included an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Bollingen Prize. Among his many volumes are The Enormous Room and Tulips & Chimneys.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1, October 6, 2005

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Mike Smith (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 73 Poems (Paperback)

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

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not up to his own standard., August 12, 2004

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Bentley (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 73 Poems (Paperback)

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.