Research Catalog

Title

95 poems / E.E. Cummings ; edited, with an afterword, by George James Firmage.

Author

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

Publication

New York : Liveright, 2002.

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Additional Authors

Firmage, George James

Description

vii, 102 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

95 Poems is the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime. Remarkable for its vigor, freshness, interest in ordinary individuals, and awareness of the human life cycle, the book reflects Cummings's observations on nature and his prevailing gratitude for whatever life offers: "Time's a strange fellow: more he gives than takes."

Alternative Title

Ninety-five poems

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• L(a -- To stand(alone)in some -- Now air is air and thing is thing:no bliss -- This man's heart -- Crazy jay blue) -- Spirit colossal -- Because you take life in your stride(instead -- Dominic has -- Both eaching come ghostlike -- Maggie and Millie and Molly and May -- In time's a noble mercy of proportion -- Lily has a rose -- So shy shy shy(and with a -- But also dying -- On littlest this -- In time of daffodils(who know -- For prodigal read generous -- Once White & Gold -- Un(bee)mo -- Off a pane)the -- Joys faces friends -- Why from this her and him -- Albutnotquitemost -- Dim -- That melancholy -- Round a so moon could dream(isus -- Jack's white horse(up -- As joe gould says in -- Ev erythingex Cept -- What Got him was Noth -- A he as o -- Who(at -- A gr -- Adhuc Sub Judice Lis -- So you're hunting for Ann well I'm looking for Will -- Yes but even -- Handsome and clever and he went cruising -- S.ti:rst;hiso, nce;ma:n -- Thanks giving (1956) -- Silence -- Beautiful --^
• From spiralling ecstatically this -- Who(is?are)who -- Laughing to find -- I love you much(most beautiful darling) -- Never could anyone -- Out of night's almosT Floats a colour(in -- Someone I am wandering a town(if its -- Noone and a star stand, am to am --! -- F -- Eeble a blu -- Why -- N -- Ardensteil-henarub-isabeth) -- You no -- Home means that -- Old age sticks -- Total stranger one black day -- When any mortal(even the most odd) -- Dive for dreams -- Young m -- Your birthday comes to tell me this -- Precisely as unbig a why as i'm -- Out of the lie of no -- First robin the -- But why should -- This little huge -- The(oo)is -- Over us if(as what was dusk becomes -- Whatever's merely wilful -- Stand with your lover on the ending earth -- I shall imagine life -- Let's, from some loud unworld's most rightful wrong -- Sentinel robins two -- (Hills chime with thrush) -- These from my mother's greatgrandmother's rosebush white -- I am a little church(no great cathedral) --^
• All nearness pauses, while a star can grow -- Whippoorwill this -- If the Lovestar grows most big -- Here's s -- Now comes the good rain farmers pray for(and -- Perished have safe small -- How generous is that himself the sun -- Here pasture ends -- This -- Now(more near ourselves than we) -- Joyful your complete fearless and pure love -- Now what were motionless move(exists no -- Rosetree, rosetree -- Unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home -- I carry your heart with me(i carry it in -- Spring!may -- Being to timelessness as it's to time -- If up's a word;and a world grows greener -- Afterword / George James Firmage.

ISBN

0871401819 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002072482

OCLC

50004059

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library