A Miscellany [Hardcover]

Oneof Americas great technical innovators, an iconoclastic opponent ofconvention, power, and hypocrisy. . . . [Cummings worked] with a memorableformal dexterity, a new way to arrange and frame experience on a page.Cummings was one of the most spirited and originalAmerican writers of the 20th century.In prose as much as in poetry, Cummingss lines area vehicle for typographical leaps of daring, experiments with and distortionsof syntax. Even at its most controlled, it is distinctively a poets prose,looking to forge a new sound from language.[Cummings] is unsurpassed in his special field, oneof the masters.Mr. Cummings is not merely the perfect acrobat orthe genius carefully, yet easily and very skillfully inhabiting everythingwhich we really are and everything which we never quitelive.? His intention is not to beserious, but to be very serious and get away with it.