Best Selling Books by E. E. Cummings

Darkly humorous and intensely energised, this fictionalised autobiography is a major work of World War I literature and is e.e. cummings’ most notable novel. It’s late August 1917, and in the midst of the raging Great War, a soon-to-be-famous modernist poet, e.e. cummings, is arrested by the French authorities on suspicion of espionage. While volunteering as an ambulance driver with the US military, cummings was imprisoned alongside his friend and fellow writer, William Slater Brown, after they were accused of including anti-war sentiments in their letters home. The Enormous Room is the ironically comedic memoir of cummings’ time spent imprisoned in France. His famous wit and unorthodox approach to grammar are visibly emerging in this seminal work. The narrator’s playful voice ensures the novel lacks any bitterness or melancholy that commonly accompanies literary accounts of hardship. The strange and colourful characters cummings is imprisoned with juxtapose the inhumanity of war, while highlighting the sense of comradery among those imprisoned in the enormous room. First published in 1922, The Enormous Room is a prose report of cummings’ own personal enlightenment and a testimony of the war’s psychological damage. Now in a new edition with an introductory poem by Anne Brontë, this volume is a great read for fans of cummings’ poetry who wish to learn more about the modernist writer’s fascinating mind.

E. E. Cummings, one of the most famous poets of all time, is known for his concise, often sassy poems that speak right to the heart. Illuminated through Caldecott Honor Illustrator Christopher Myers''s electrifying artwork, E. E. Cummings'' Love: Selected Poems is filled with humor, feeling, and romance for young teens and adults. From "the moon is hiding in her hair" to "may i feel, said he," this book fulfills the Cummings collector''s ultimate wishes, and is the perfect gift for anyone interested in the magic and romance entrenched in the language of love.

Vivid, joyful poetry and bright, whimsical artwork combine in a delightful picture book collection of E. E. Cummings’s verse that tracks the seasons of the year. Welcome to a marvelous almanac of E. E. Cummings’s poetry, from the showers, puddles, and birdsong of spring to the beaches and sun of summer, Halloween, November sunsets, snowfalls, and little silent Christmas trees. Now published as the first-ever picture book collection of Cummings’s poems and imagined for contemporary readers with beloved artist Blanca Gómez’s sprightly and charming illustrations, when the world is puddle-wonderful bursts with joy and wonder at the world around us.

Als sie klein war, erzählte der amerikanische Maler, Dichter und Schriftsteller E. E. Cummings seiner 1919 geborenen Tochter Nancy Märchen, die erst posthum als Buch erschienen. Sie sind voller Fantasie und Witz, liebevoll und heiter und lassen ebenso einen anarchischen Blick auf die Gesellschaft wie einen Sinn für die Abgründe sprachlicher Logik erkennen, die Kinder sehr früh zu schätzen wissen. Mit leichter Hand ins Deutsche übersetzt, sind diese Märchen von luftiger Verspieltheit und komischer Konsequenz. Ob wir Zeuge einer Liebesgeschichte zwischen Elefant und Schmetterling werden oder ein kleines Mädchen namens "Ich" begleiten - mit dem beglückenden Gefühl eines leichten Schwindels tauchen wir aus der Lektüre dieser Seiten wieder auf.

E.E. Cummings is one of the significant poets who has enriched American poetry with his innovative contributions. His poetry reflects the transition from eroticism to transcendence, from the world of knowledge to the realm of wisdom. This collection of one hundred selected poems of Cummings spans the entire range of his creations, from the early writings to poems created at the peak of his poetic career. From being thought-provoking and humorous to sensitive and profound portrayals, these poems represent his creativity at its best.

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