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E.E. Cummings

E.E. Cummings reads from a selection of his own poetry.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
Other Authors:	McClatchy, J. D., 1945-
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House Audio, p2005.
Series:	Voice of the poet
Subjects:	American poetry > 20th century. Poets, American > 20th century.
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Summary:	E.E. Cummings reads from a selection of his own poetry.
Item Description:	Includes never before released recordings. Companion book contains the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy. Compact disc.
Physical Description:	1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (64 p. ; 18 cm.)
ISBN:	0739315374 : 9780739315378
Author Notes:	A Harvard University graduate, e e cummings lived in Greenwich Village and spent his summers on a farm in New Hampshire. He was born on October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While working for the American Red Cross in France in 1917, cummings was mistakenly imprisoned for several months. This experience resulted in the publication of a novel, The Enormous Room (1922). Although he went on to write other prose, it is for his poetry that he is best known. He also published plays, wrote a ballet, and was a respected painter. He was awarded many honors for his work, including the 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry and the National Book Award in 1955. Although he used many techniques to stress his meaning, he wrote about the traditional subjects of love, nature, and the corrupting influence of materialism. cummings delivered lectures while at Harvard in 1952; in that same year, he was awarded an honorary seat as a guest professor. He also wrote the delightful commentaries for the 50 photographs in Adventures in Value by his wife, Marion Morehouse, a fine and sensitive photographer cummings died of a stroke on September 3, 1962, at the age of 67 in North Conway, New Hampshire at the Memorial Hospital. His cremated remains were buried in Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory in Boston. (Bowker Author Biography)