You can use? Advanced Searching Our Advanced Search tool lets you easily search multiple fields at the same time and combine terms in complex ways. See the help page for more details. Want to get more out of the basic search box? Read about Search Operators for some powerful new tools. Edition: 1st ed. Subjects: Cummings, E. Published by Liveright, New York, Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Condition: Fine. Stated first edition with the '1' in a full number line.
Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is price-clipped, else near fine, clean and bright in its archival Mylar cover. Published by Liveright, NY, First Edition Signed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Large octavo; xv, pp. First edition thus. Introduction by Richard S. Edited and with an afterword by George James Firmage, who has signed, dated, and inscribed the front endpaper. Tulips and Chimneys was Cummings' first book of verse, published by Thomas Seltzer in in an edition that contained only 66 of intended poems, the rest of which were deemed too startling or experimental.
The inscription by Firmage, Cummings? With all my love always, your son George. A touching association copy of the first volume in Liveright's "The Cummings Typescript Editions," based on the typed and autograph manuscripts in Harvard's The Houghton Library. Inscribed by Author s. Seller: Vagabond Books, A. Limited to numbered copies, this being Vellum backed green paper over boards in tan printed dust jacket.
The dust jacket has light wear at the spine's crown and foot. Some off-setting of the title page to the end paper opposite. In fact, the lack of structure creates difficulty when reading, almost as if Cummings challenges the reader to understand the visual component of the text as a contributor to the art form of poetry. A Salty Dog Thematically, Cummings confirms his adoration of the feminine form and his salty nature. Once again, Cummings readily admits to his licentious lifestyle.
His poetry, to a certain extent, flows from a blunt and honest place. Cummings deconstructs poetry in this work. He forces the reader to question the definition of poetry and the way he or she ought to interact with the words on the page. But the book feels firmly encamped on the side of criticism. No matter the importance of deconstruction in any aspect of life, I always pine for a reconstruction. What can we put in place of what we tore down?
Apr 07, Becky Ankeny rated it liked it. As a life-long or middle-school on e. In this first collection , I found several poems to be florid and overdone. For example, "Epithalamion" is filled with classical references I can't get myself to care about. BUT, of course, there are the poems filled with poignancy and sheer loveliness.
Cummings' early poetry has themes of love, sex, and death--which, in my opinion, are three of the four main topics As a life-long or middle-school on e. Cummings' early poetry has themes of love, sex, and death--which, in my opinion, are three of the four main topics of poetry. There's a little about God, the fourth main topic, but not much. This collection includes the frequently anthologized "all in green went my love riding," "in Just-," "Tumbling-hair," "O sweet spontaneous,""Buffalo Bill 's," "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls": not bad for a first collection.
Cummings was 29 and had been an ambulance driver in France during WWI, imprisoned by the French on suspicion of spying, and then on his release, drafted by the US Army, serving for 11 months.
Both view words and for cummings, punctuation as something like paint or clay. Dec 30, Christina rated it it was amazing. Jan 22, Kate rated it it was ok Shelves: poetry , classics , I don't get it. I'm definitely not some poetry connoisseur expert, and openly admit that with few exceptions, I really don't "get" poetry. But I continue to try to learn more about it and keep reading different poets to expand my horizons. I saw this book posted by one of my favorite literary instagram accounts the shop Obvious State , and wanted to give it a try since I had never read anything by E.
Cummings, though I see and love quotes attributed to him all over the internet. Some of the I don't get it. Some of the poems in here were lovely. But, there were some most that I could barely read, because there's weird capitalization or breaking words up in the middle across multiple lines or stringing words together without putting spaces in between them.
It hurt my eyes. Also, he apparently seems to be the person who started the fad of random spacing and hitting "return" at random places that is uber popular among the tumblr poet crowd, so not a fan since I personally hate that. Could this be the best poetry collection of all time objectively by poetry experts? I have no idea. I won't pretend that I'm a scholar in this area and can speak to the objective quality of the metaphors and cadence and whatever else.
But as a regular reader who is still getting a feel for the genre, this is a big "Nope" for me. But, because some of it was okay and I was able to get through it all without completely hating everything about it, I'll give it an extra star. Apr 28, kate rated it it was amazing. The poems sit awkward and unbalanced as the words delicately float above some common expectation of alignment. Nov 09, Yash rated it it was amazing.
This is a collection of poems written before , but each one reminds you how ahead of their time they were. By which I mean, most of these poems are written in a very experimental way, playing around with punctuations, spaces, parentheses and even basic grammar some downright read like txts a t33n ger wud send.
In this vast collection he writes about everything, really, but does gravitate around the twin suns of nature hence tulips and love hence If nothing else, his wordplay is at the very least evocative of the places and things he describes: brothels, Paris, New York City, spring, death etc.
The poems are somewhat hit-or-miss, though: you either get them or you don't. In fact, some of his poems made me wonder if anyone apart from him really gets what they mean. But those that do click are worth the readings and rereadings and the f i v e s t a r s. Jul 30, ashbee added it. I've read so little poetry in recent years that I'm hardly comfortable rating or reviewing an iconic writer like Cummings.
Instead, I will notate my favorite poems and passages from this anthology. Surprised to find Old English kennings in Chansons Innocentes: Just-spring, mud-luscious, puddle-wonderful Amores I Your Little Voice La Guerre I Humanity I Love You is humorous but haunting, especially the fifth stanza Alliteration in the line, "O crazy daddy of death dance cruelly for us" Seven Po I've read so little poetry in recent years that I'm hardly comfortable rating or reviewing an iconic writer like Cummings.
Aug 07, Antonio Delgado rated it it was amazing. There is something brilliant about these poems. They are challenging but simple, simple but require a particular reading. We have been accustomed to read through the codes imposed by grammar whereas language is fluid. Cumming challenges how we read and how we think. Is it that how we learn to read the volatile changes in the yearly seasons? Dec 13, Ellie rated it really liked it Shelves: poetry. TIL that I don't like all of e. I do not like his earliest works, the really, really, really long love poems in particular.
But I'd never read his sonnets before this, and was so happy to discover them. All in all, I'm glad I read this and got to know his body of work better. Fantastic play with sounds and punctuation! Cummings is the tone composer of poetry! Jan 20, Kitten rated it really liked it Shelves: poetry , around-the-year-inbooks Around the Year in 52 Books A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u". Jun 22, Jackson Hengsterman rated it liked it Shelves: fiction , poems , read-in , america , 20th-century.
Chimneys is an inspired work of art. It elevates this collection from something that's good but not great to the level of sublime masterpiece.
Oct 30, Nicholas Tamouridis rated it it was amazing. Stay tuned for my favourite poems in this collection! May 22, Shena rated it it was ok Shelves: poetry. Disclaimer: I'm not a huge fan of poetry in general, but I've read several of E. Cummings's other poems none that were in this book and really loved them, and I figured I'd give this a try.
Call me a vulgar, base, anti-intellectual idiot all you want, but there was maybe one poem out of the entire collection that I cared enough about to bookmark. The language was pretty, but the stylistic choices and infinitude of allusions to things I have little background in distracted me from any deeper Disclaimer: I'm not a huge fan of poetry in general, but I've read several of E.
The language was pretty, but the stylistic choices and infinitude of allusions to things I have little background in distracted me from any deeper analysis.
I found myself skimming for a lot of the time, which is an impressive feat considering how few words there actually were.
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