One Times One

by E. E. Cummings, George James Firmage (Editor)

Overview

A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.

Cummings's ninth book of poems, One Times One, was first published in 1944. The poems in One Times One have as their theme "oneness and the means (one times one) whereby that oneness is achieved—love," in the words of Cummings's biographer Richard S. Kennedy. Besides new expressions of universal concerns, Cummings writes here in a lyric and optimistic mode, drawing portraits of people dear to him in New Hampshire and New York City's Greenwich Village. This new edition joins other individual uniform Liveright paperback volumes drawn from the Complete Poems, most recently Etcetera and 22 and 50 Poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871401809
Publisher:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	08/17/2002
Pages:	70
Sales rank:	647,040
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. He was also a playwright, a painter, and a writer of prose. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard University and, during World War I, served with an ambulance corps in France. He spent three months in a French detention camp and subsequently wrote The Enormous Room, a highly acclaimed criticism of World War I. After the war, Cummings returned to the States and published his first collection of poetry, Tulips & Chimneys, which was characterized by his innovative style: pushing the boundaries of language and form while discussing love, nature, and war with sensuousness and glee. He spent the rest of his life painting, writing poetry, and enjoying widespread popularity and success.

Table of Contents

I	Nonsun blob a	1
II	Neither could say	2
III	It's over a(see just	3
IV	Of all the blessings which to man	4
V	Squints a blond	5
VI	My(his from daughter's mother's zero mind	6
VII	YgUDuh	7
VIII	Applaws)	8
IX	A salesman is an it that stinks Excuse	9
X	A politician is an arse upon	10
XI	Mr u will not be missed	11
XII	It was a goodly co	12
XIII	Plato told	13
XIV	Pity this busy monster, manunkind	14
XV	("Fire stop thief help murder save the world"	15
XVI	One's not half two. It's two are halves of one	16
XVII	One(Floatingly)arrive	17
XVIII	As any(men's hells having wrestled with)	18
XIX	When you are silent,shining host by guest	19
XX	What if a much of a which of a wind	20
XXI	Dead every enormous piece	21
XXII	No man,if men are gods;but if gods must	22
XXIII	Love is a spring at which	23
XXIV	(Once like a spark)	24
XXV	What over and which under	25
XXVI	When god decided to invent	26
XXVII	Old mr ly	27
XXVIII	Rain or hail	28
XXIX	Let it go--the	30
XXX	Hello is what a mirror says	31
XXXI	A-	32
XXXII	I've come to ask you if there isn't a	33
XXXIII	Open green those	34
XXXIV	Nothing false and possible is love	35
XXXV	Except in your	36
XXXVI	True lovers in each happening of their hearts	38
XXXVII	We love each other very dearly ,more	39
XXXVIII	Yes is a pleasant country	40
XXXIX	All ignorance toboggans into know	41
XL	Darling!because my blood can sing	42
XLI	How	43
XLII	Might these be thrushes climbing through almost(do they	44
XLIII	If(among	45
XLIV	These(whom;pretends	46
XLV	I think you like"	47
XLVI	Open your heart	48
XLVII	Until and i heard	49
XLVIII	So isn't small one littest why	50
XLIX	Trees were in(give	51
L	Which is the very	52
LI	"Sweet spring is your	53
LII	Life is more true than reason will deceive	54
LIII	O by the by	55
LIV	If everything happens that can't be done	56
	Dedication	58
	Afterword	59