Tulips & Chimneys Review

I've had this for ten years and this is the first time I've read it. If only I read this earlier in life . . . The first twenty pages or so are gorgeous, but spent too much time in my head and didn't ...

It's like gorging on bright blue pastels, and then gargling vanilla vodka and Pop Rocks, while listening to rhythms of an unintelligible reading of the Iliad. Oh, and he likes to objectify women :(...

your little voice Over the wires came leapingand i felt suddenlydizzy With the jostling and shouting of merry flowerswee skipping high-heeled flamescourtesied before my eyes or twinkling over to my si...

Experimental syntax. Anything else? Tulips is fairly romantic in its view of nature and love. Chimneys is more modern in its view of the city and sex....

His Realities, Unrealities and Actualities sonnets are the most beautiful in this collection. They will be poems I cherish dearly. Such beautiful work. This is also my first exposure to Cummings' work...

A quick ode to E.E. with ampersands & all( built on the sturdy body of his poem*XV):come poetry to my crumbling soul which with nonfiction has conversed in vain, O noiselessly take thy rhythmic toll, ...

Let’s Tear It Down!Deconstruction is easy. Whenever someone takes a stand, a myriad of critics file out of the woodwork like termites scoping a new meal. Whether it is art, philosophy, theology, pol...

I loved this! Cummings has a great sense of ironic humor and a mastery of cadence. Here's my favorite stanza:Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and...

As a life-long (or middle-school on) e.e. cummings fan, I am always surprised by how much of his poetry I don't really like. In this first collection (1923), I found several poems to be florid and ove...

10 stars out of 5Brilliant No one can write like Cummings....