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From the acclaimed writer of My Name Is Bill and Home Before Dark comes a significant reassessment of the life span and work of 1 of America's preeminent 20th-century poets. E. E. Cummings' radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax resulted in his creation of a fresh, idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. Even though there was critical disagreement about his work (Edmund Wilson called it "hideous", while Malcolm Cowley called him "unsurpassed in his field"), at the time of his death in 1962, at get older 67, he was, after Robert Frost, the most extensively read poet in america. Now, in this new biography, Susan Cheever traces the development of the poet and his work. She can take us from Cummings' apparently idyllic child years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through his years at Harvard(rooming with Dos Passos, befriending Malcolm Cowley and Lincoln Kirstein) where the radical verse of Ezra Pound lured the young writer from the politeness of the original aspect poem and toward a far more adventurous, sexually mindful form. We follow Cummings to Paris in 1917 and, finally, to Greenwich Town to be among other modernist poets of your day, including Marianne Moore and Hart Crane. Wealthy and illuminating, E. E. Cummings: A Life is a surprising rvelation of the person and the poet, and an excellent reassessment of the freighted route of his legacy.
