Description
Reissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage.
E. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. 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 exuberant power of love. No Thanks was first published in 1935; although Cummings was by then in mid-career, he had still not achieved recognition, and the title refers ironically to publishers' rejections. No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life—romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations. The volume includes such favorites as "sonnet entitled how to run the world)," "may I feel said he," "Jehovah buried. Satan dead," "be of love (a little)," and the now-famous grasshopper poem.
Also By: E. E. Cummings 
E. E. Cummings: Selected Works: A Norton Critical Edition
First Edition, Paperback, 2020
A Miscellany
Revised, Hardback, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.
A Miscellany
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.
E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962
Hardback, 2016
This edition—newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn—presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work.
ViVa
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...
Also By: George James Firmage
A Miscellany
Revised, Hardback, 2018
Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummings’s prodigious vision and imagination.A Miscellany
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.E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962
Hardback, 2016
This edition—newly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunn—presents the entirety of E.E. Cummings’s transcendent body of work.
Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings
E Book, 2015
A new volume in the Liveright series of Cummings reissues, offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962.
The Enormous Room
New Edition, E Book, 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
