A Miscellany (Revised)

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book A Miscellany (Revised) by E. E. Cummings, Liveright
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: E. E. Cummings ISBN: 9780871403940
Publisher: Liveright Publication: July 24, 2018
Imprint: Liveright Language: English
Author: E. E. Cummings
ISBN: 9780871403940
Publisher: Liveright
Publication: July 24, 2018
Imprint: Liveright
Language: English

A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings.

Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings’s groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to “a cluster of epigrams,” a poem, three speeches from an unfinished play, and forty-nine essays—most of them previously written for or published in magazines, anthologies, or art gallery catalogues. Seven years later, George J. Firmage—editor of much of Cummings’s work, including Complete Poems—broadened the scope of this delightfully eclectic collection, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings’s unpublished line drawings.

Together, these pieces paint a distinctive portrait of Cummings’s eccentric, yet precise, genius. Like his poetry, Cummings’s prose is lively; often witty, biting, and offbeat, he is an intelligent observer and critic of the modern. His essays explore everything from Cubism to the circus, equally quick to analyze his poetic contemporaries and satirize New York society. As Cummings wrote in his original foreword, A Miscellany contains “a great deal of liveliness and nothing dead.” This remains true today, more than fifty years after its original publication.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings.

Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, E. E. Cummings’s groundbreaking modernist poetry expanded the boundaries of language. In A Miscellany, originally released in a limited run in 1958, Cummings lent his delightfully original voice to “a cluster of epigrams,” a poem, three speeches from an unfinished play, and forty-nine essays—most of them previously written for or published in magazines, anthologies, or art gallery catalogues. Seven years later, George J. Firmage—editor of much of Cummings’s work, including Complete Poems—broadened the scope of this delightfully eclectic collection, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings’s unpublished line drawings.

Together, these pieces paint a distinctive portrait of Cummings’s eccentric, yet precise, genius. Like his poetry, Cummings’s prose is lively; often witty, biting, and offbeat, he is an intelligent observer and critic of the modern. His essays explore everything from Cubism to the circus, equally quick to analyze his poetic contemporaries and satirize New York society. As Cummings wrote in his original foreword, A Miscellany contains “a great deal of liveliness and nothing dead.” This remains true today, more than fifty years after its original publication.

More books from Liveright

Cover of the book One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, An Autobiography by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Words Without Music: A Memoir by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book As Texas Goes...: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Hello America: A Novel by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Epilogue: A Memoir by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by E. E. Cummings
Cover of the book Sonic Wind: The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man on Earth by E. E. Cummings
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy