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Erotic Poems |  | Author: E. E. Cummings
Creator: George James Firmage
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0871406594
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780871406590
Publication Date: February 8, 2010
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Product Description
E. E. Cummings’s erotic poems and drawings gathered in a single volume. Many years ago the prodigious and famously prolific E. E. Cummings sat in his study writing and thinking about sex. His private brooding gave way to poems and drawings of sexual and romantic love that delight and provoke. Here, collected for this first time in a single volume, are those erotic poems and sketches, culled from Cummings’s original manuscripts by the distinguished editor George James Firmage.
from “16”
may i feel said he
(i’ll squeal said she
just once said he)
it’s fun said she
(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she 12 drawings.
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Erotic Poems February 25, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
Many know and love e.e. cummings, one of the masters of modernist poetry. His style is distinctive in its use of punctuation and grammar, and poems such as "in Just-" and "maggie and millie and molly and may" are staples of school curriculums. But many don't know that cummings was known during his lifetime as a master of "adult" poetry, and his collection of erotic work has been collected into a new, exciting volume. The poems in //erotic poems// might not be appropriate for the classroom, but they are as celebratory and memorable as cummings' other work.
e.e. cummings was as playful with words as he was innovative, and this playfulness can be seen both in his joyfully sensual poems and his erotic line drawings. This is not porn by any stretch of the imagination; rather, the energetic sketches echo figure studies done by modernist contemporaries like Pablo Picasso. And the poems rely on sound and metaphor to convey their sensualism. Worms wriggle through soft dirt, a crisp city rises, fur turns electric, and jiggling, hushing, and oh's abound. Some are purely romantic, some are downright X-rated, but all are filled with joy for the act of love.
Reviewed by Katie Cappello
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