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Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love.

Foreword

ix

ONE

Five Americans

Liz

3

(1)

Mame

4

(1)

Gert

5

(1)

Marj

6

(1)

Fran

7

(1)

Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal

8

(2)

curtains part)

10

(1)

workingman with hand so hairy-sturdy

11

(1)

yonder deadfromtheneckup graduate of a

12

(1)

Jimmie's got a goil goil goil, Jimmie

13

(1)

the waddling

14

(2)

listen my children and you

16

(1)

even if all desires things moments be

17

(1)

death is more than

18

(1)

nobody loses all the time

19

(2)

now dis ``daughter'' uv eve(who aint precisely slim)sim

21

(1)

(and i imagine

22

(1)

it really must

23

(1)

Item

24

(1)

it started when Bill's chip let on to

25

(1)

Ikey (Goldberg)'s Worth I'M

26

(1)

?

27

(1)

this young question mark man

28

(1)

mr youse needn't be so spry

29

(1)

i was sitting in mcsorley's. outside it was New York and beauti-

30

(2)

she being Brand

32

(2)

slightly before the middle of Congressman Pudd

34

(1)

Dick Mid's large bluish face without eyebrows

35

(1)

Ode

36

(1)

on the Madam's best april the

37

(1)

(as that named Fred

38

(1)

my uncle

39

(1)

than(by yon sunset's wintry glow

40

(1)

weazened Irrefutable unastonished

41

(1)

Memorabilia

42

(2)

a man who had fallen among thieves

44

(1)

Babylon slim

45

(1)

this evangelist

46

(1)

(ponder, darling, these busted statues

47

(1)

ta

48

(1)

poets yeggs and thirsties

49

(1)

Will i ever forget that precarious moment?

50

(2)

voices to voices, lip to lip

52

(2)

life hurl my

54

(3)

TWO

the season `tis, my lovely lambs

57

(2)

opening of the chambers close

59

(1)

``next to of course god america i

60

(1)

it's jolly

61

(1)

look at this)

62

(1)

first Jock he

63

(1)

lis

64

(1)

come, gaze with me upon this dome

65

(1)

little ladies more

66

(2)

16 heures

68

(2)

my sweet old etcetera

70

(3)

THREE

now that fierce few

73

(1)

Among these red pieces of

74

(1)

it is winter a moon in the afternoon

75

(1)

impossibly

76

(1)

inthe, exquisite

77

(1)

candles and

78

(2)

Paris; this April sunset completely utters

80

(1)

will out of the kindness of their hearts a few philosophers tell me

81

(1)

but observe;although

82

(1)

sunlight was over

83

(4)

FOUR

the moon looked into my window

87

(1)

if being mortised with a dream

88

(1)

here's a little mouse)and

89

(1)

but if i should say

90

(1)

in spite of everything

91

(1)

you are not going to, dear. You are not going to and

92

(1)

since feeling is first

93

(1)

some ask praise of their fellows

94

(1)

supposing i dreamed this)

95

(1)

you are like the snow only

96

(2)

because

98

(1)

you being in love

99

(1)

Nobody wears a yellow

100

(1)

it is so long since my heart has been with yours

101

(1)

i am a beggar always

102

(1)

if within tonight's erect

103

(1)

how this uncouth enchanted

104

(1)

i go to this window

105

(4)

FIVE

after all white horses are in bed

109

(1)

touching you i say(it being Spring

110

(1)

along the brittle treacherous bright streets

111

(1)

our touching hearts slenderly comprehend

112

(1)

if i have made, my lady, intricate

113

(2)

Afterword

115

George James Firmage

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