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

Books by E. E. Cummings

A Miscellany
E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage
Revised, Hardback, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
Erotic Poems
E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage
E Book, 2010
E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume.
Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage, Richard S. Kennedy
E Book, 2015
A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.
Is 5
E. E. Cummings
E Book, 2013
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...
A Miscellany
E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage
Revised, E Book, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
No Thanks
E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage
E Book, 2013
Reissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage.
Selected Poems
E. E. Cummings, Richard S. Kennedy
E Book, 2013
"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."—Randall Jarrell
Tulips and Chimneys
E. E. Cummings
E Book, 2013
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
E Book, 2015
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...
EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia
E. E. Cummings, Norman Friedman, Madison Smartt Bell
E Book, 2013
A reissue of E. E. Cummings's long-unavailable, yet pointed and moving story of a journey through Soviet Russia.