E. E. Cummings

A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.

Here is an eye-opening selection of Cummings's most avant-garde poetry and prose. Cummings was a pioneer in sound and concrete poetry. He worked with the traditional form of the sonnet until he made it all his own through linguistic and typographic inventions that have never been properly recognized. His prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically experimental.

The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an American ambulance corps in France during World War I, were erroneously suspected of treasonable correspondence and were imprisoned from August, 1917, until January, 1918. In this book, Cummings describes the prisoners with whom he shared his captivity, the captors who subjected their victims to enormous cruelty, and the filthy surroundings of the prison camp.

Aside from having the same name, Tommy and his grandfather Tom share a sense of humor.

Presents with illustrations the celebrated author's poem of scary, ghostly things.

The well-known cummings poem concerns the special joys and fears of childhood.

Twenty poems selected by the poet.

The poet/individualist's ode to a small tree decorated for Christmas and proud to receive admiring attention.

Four tales include "The Old Man Who Said 'Why'," "The Elephant and The Butterfly," "The House That Ate Mosquito Pie," and "The Little Girl Named I."