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Original Title:	95 Poems
ISBN:	0871401819 (ISBN13: 9780871401816)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (1959)

95 Poems

E.E. Cummings

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 4.26 | 1882 Users | 74 Reviews

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Title	:	95 Poems
Author	:	E.E. Cummings
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	August 17th 2002 by Liveright (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics

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Published in 1958, 95 Poems is the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime. Remarkable for its vigor, freshness, interest in ordinary individuals, and awareness of the human life cycle, the book reflects Cummings's observations on nature and his prevailing gratitude for whatever life offers: "Time's a strange fellow: more he gives than takes." This new edition joins other individual uniform Liveright paperback volumes drawn from the Complete Poems, most recently Etcetera and 22 and 50 Poems.

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I think enjoying these poems requires some type of literary understanding that I don't yet have.

why didnt i read this when i was thirteen like i was supposed to

"noone and a star stand,am to am(life to life;breathing to breathingflaming dream to dreaming flame)united by perfect nothing:millionary wherewhens distant,asreckoned by the unimmortal mind,these immeasurable mysteries(human one;and one celestial)standsoul to soul:freedom to freedomtill her utmost secrecies and his(dreaming flame by flaming dream)mergeat not imaginable whichinstant born,a(who is neither eachboth and)Self adventures deathlessness"#14.

Appreciated and admired the boundaries Cummings pushed in his style and approach to writing, but I didn't especially enjoy most of it.

I read this short volume in a single sitting and concluded that I liked it in spite of also disliking it. Comparing his style of poetry to visual arts made me think that he was a fusion of Picasso, Pollock, and Monet - His use of the basic shapes of language (Picasso) is thrown together in what seem to be random or unexpected ways (Pollock) but the overall impression conveyed in his poetry was pleasing nonetheless (Monet). Pros: I really enjoyed some of his imagery and clever descriptions. Some

to stand(alone)in someautumnal afternoon:breathing a fatalstillness;whileenormous this howpatient creatures(who'snever by never robbed of day)puts always on by alwaysdream,is totastenot(beyonddeath andlife)imaginable mysteries