An eye-opening selection of Cumming's more avant-garde poetry and prose.
As a poet, Cummings was a pioneer not only in linguistic and typographic inventions, but also in sound and concrete poetry. But his prose is no less experimental; he wrote memoirs, essays, and fiction that are constantly provocative and often radically experimental.
To read the avant-garde Cummings is to read a writer who consistently broke with established norms, "never to rest and never to have:only to grow." To not read the avant-garde Cummings is to not read Cummings.
Richard Kostelanetz has published many books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and cultural history. He lives in New York City.
288 pages / June
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