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English
Liveright
24 August 2018
"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,"" forty-nine essays, a poem, and three speeches from an unfinished play. Seven years later, George J. Firmage— editor of much of Cummings's work, including Complete Poems— broadened the scope of this idiosyncratic collection of Cummings's work, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings's unpublished line drawings.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. 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 ""contain[s] a great deal of liveliness and nothing dead."" This remains true today, more than fifty years after its original publication."

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Imprint:   Liveright
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Revised
Dimensions:   Height: 218mm,  Width: 147mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   541g
ISBN:   9780871406538
ISBN 10:   0871406535
Pages:   384
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for A Miscellany

Mr. Cummings is not merely the perfect acrobat or the genius carefully, yet easily and very skillfully inhabiting everything which we really are and everything which we never quite live. His intention is not to be serious, but to be very serious and get away with it. -- Louis Zukofsky - Exile Cummings was one of the most spirited and original American writers of the 20th century. -- The Wall Street Journal


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