Little Lame Balloonman
August Kleinzahler: E.E. Cummings, 9 October 2014
E.E. Cummings: The Complete Poems, 1904-62
edited by George JamesFirmage.
Liveright, 1102 pp., £36, September 2013,978 0 87140 710 8 Show More
edited by George JamesFirmage.
Liveright, 1102 pp., £36, September 2013,
E.E. Cummings: A Life
by Susan Cheever.
Pantheon, 209 pp., £16, February 2014,978 0 307 37997 9 Show More
by Susan Cheever.
Pantheon, 209 pp., £16, February 2014,
“... as the letters, his poems were, of necessity, in the lower case. The column was illustrated by George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat, a comic strip that first came out in 1913 and that Cummings was mad about (he wrote the introduction to the first collection of the strip in book form in 1946). He loved the mad, Dada-inflected burlesque as well as the ... ”
