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    E. E. Cummings

    E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. He was also a playwright, a painter, and a writer of prose. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard University and, during World War I, served with an ambulance corps in France. He spent three months in a French detention camp and subsequently wrote The Enormous Room, a highly acclaimed criticism of World War I. After the war, Cummings returned to the States and published his first collection of poetry, Tulips & Chimneys, which was characterized by his innovative style: pushing the boundaries of language and form while discussing love, nature, and war with sensuousness and glee. He spent the rest of his life painting, writing poetry, and enjoying widespread popularity and success.

    E. E. Cummings

    E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. He was also a playwright, a painter, and a writer of prose. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard University and, during World War I, served with an ambulance corps in France. He spent three months in a French detention camp and subsequently wrote The Enormous Room, a highly acclaimed criticism of World War I. After the war, Cummings returned to the States and published his first collection of poetry, Tulips & Chimneys, which was characterized by his innovative style: pushing the boundaries of language and form while discussing love, nature, and war with sensuousness and glee. He spent the rest of his life painting, writing poetry, and enjoying widespread popularity and success.

    Books by E. E. Cummings

    • Tulips and Chimneys

      E. E. Cummings

      Paperback, 1997

      Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the...

    • ViVa

      E. E. Cummings

      Paperback, 1997

      Fresh and candid, but turns earthy, defiant, and romantic, E. E. Cummings' poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the...

    • No Thanks

      E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage

      Paperback, 1999

      Reissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage.

    • Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings

      E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage, Richard S. Kennedy

      Paperback, 2001

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

    • 22 and 50 Poems

      E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage

      Paperback, 2001

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

    • One Times One

      E. E. Cummings

      Paperback, 2002

      A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.

    • 95 Poems

      E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage

      Paperback, 2002

      A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.

    • Fairy Tales

      E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage, Meilo So

      Hardback, 2004

      These whimsical, timeless tales, by one of our most treasured poets, will appeal to any generation.

    • Erotic Poems

      E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage

      Paperback, 2010

      E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume.

    • The Enormous Room

      E. E. Cummings, Susan Cheever, George James Firmage

      New Edition, Paperback, 2014

      “Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives—The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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