Items related to A Miscellany
A Miscellany, confined to a private edition for decades, sheds further light on the prodigious vision and imagination of the most inventive poet of the twentieth century: E.E. Cummings.
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,” a poem, three speeches from an unfinished play, and forty-nine essays―most of them previously written for or published in magazines, anthologies, or art gallery catalogues. Seven years later, George J. Firmage―editor of much of Cummings’s work, including Complete Poems―broadened the scope of this delightfully eclectic collection, adding seven more poems and essays, and many of Cummings’s unpublished line drawings.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. Like his poetry, Cummings’s prose is lively; often witty, biting, and offbeat, he is an intelligent observer and critic of the modern. 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 contains “a great deal of liveliness and nothing dead.” This remains true today, more than fifty years after its original publication.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Review:
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.
George J. Firmage edited many works by Cummings, including Erotic Poems; Complete Poems, 1904– 1962; and Fairy Tales.
“One of America’s great technical innovators, an iconoclastic opponent of convention, power, and hypocrisy. . . . [Cummings worked] with a memorable formal dexterity, a new way to arrange and frame experience on a page.”
- Stephen Dunn
“Cummings was one of the most spirited and original American writers of the 20th century.”
- Wall Street Journal
“In prose as much as in poetry, Cummings’s lines are a vehicle for typographical leaps of daring, experiments with and distortions of syntax. Even at its most controlled, it is distinctively a poet’s prose, looking to forge a new sound from language.”
- San Francisco Chronicle
“[Cummings] is unsurpassed in his special field, one of the masters.”
- Malcolm Cowley
“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, in Ezra Pound’s magazine, Exile
- Stephen Dunn
“Cummings was one of the most spirited and original American writers of the 20th century.”
- Wall Street Journal
“In prose as much as in poetry, Cummings’s lines are a vehicle for typographical leaps of daring, experiments with and distortions of syntax. Even at its most controlled, it is distinctively a poet’s prose, looking to forge a new sound from language.”
- San Francisco Chronicle
“[Cummings] is unsurpassed in his special field, one of the masters.”
- Malcolm Cowley
“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, in Ezra Pound’s magazine, Exile
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherLiveright
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0871406535
- ISBN 13 9780871406538
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
- EditorFirmage George James
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 19.61
Shipping:
US$ 2.64
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Seller Image
Buy New
US$ 19.61
Convert currency
Seller Image
A Miscellany (Revised) by Cummings, E. E. [Hardcover ]
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780871406538
Buy New
US$ 22.26
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Miscellany (Revised) Format: Hardcover
Published by
WW Norton Publishers
(2018)
ISBN 10: 0871406535
ISBN 13: 9780871406538
New
Hardcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Brand New. Seller Inventory # 9780871406538
Buy New
US$ 18.49
Convert currency
Seller Image
A Miscellany (Hardcover)
Published by
WW Norton & Co
(2018)
ISBN 10: 0871406535
ISBN 13: 9780871406538
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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. Confined to a private edition for decades, this volume sheds further light on E.E. Cummingss prodigious vision and imagination. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780871406538
Buy New
US$ 28.49
Convert currency
Stock Image
E. E. Cummings
Published by
Liveright 2018-09-25, New York
(2018)
ISBN 10: 0871406535
ISBN 13: 9780871406538
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 5
Seller:
Rating
Book Description hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9780871406538
Buy New
US$ 27.52
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Miscellany
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0871406535
Buy New
US$ 35.86
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Miscellany
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Brand New Copy. Seller Inventory # BBB_new0871406535
Buy New
US$ 37.16
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Miscellany
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon0871406535
Buy New
US$ 37.23
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Miscellany Revised Edition
Published by
Liveright Pub Corp
(2018)
ISBN 10: 0871406535
ISBN 13: 9780871406538
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 2
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. revised edition. 364 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0871406535
Buy New
US$ 28.20
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Miscellany
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. BRAND NEW ** SUPER FAST SHIPPING FROM UK WAREHOUSE ** 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. Seller Inventory # 9780871406538-GDR
Buy New
US$ 30.08
Convert currency