E. E. Cummings

Autor de una extensa producción literaria en la que se incluyen también novelas, relatos, teatro, ensayo y cuentos infantiles, E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) es conocido, ante todo, por ser uno de los poetas mas arriesgados, controvertidos y complejos de la literatura norteamericana de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Nada de esto impidio, sin embargo, que llegase a recibir el elogio de la critica y la estimacion de los lectores, hasta tal grado que, en los años sesenta, se convirtio en el segundo poeta mas leido en los Estados Unidos, teniendo por delante solo a Robert Frost. El interes por su obra no ha decrecido desde entonces.Esta antologia bilingue, que se basa en la mas reciente y depurada recoleccion de la obra completa de E. E. Cummings, incluye una amplia seleccion tanto de los poemas que publico en vida como de aquellos que quedaron inicialmente ineditos y fueron recopilandose despues de su muerte. La traduccion, por su parte, pretende reflejar, ademas del contenido de los textos, el estilo y la peculiar tecnica compositiva de su autor, que se encuentra en la esencia de su actividad poetica.

Els (a)poemes (que no és només —o potser gens— l'«a» privativa —el prefix grec—, que precedeix, parentèticament, el substantiu masculí plural genèric) que aquí es presenten i representen —i mai no se

This complete editionnewly typeset with an introduction by Stephen Dunnpresents the entirety of E. E. Cummingss transcendent body of work.With a new introduction by Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Stephen Dunn, this redesigned and fully reset edition of Complete Poems collects and presents all the poems published or designated for publication by E. E. Cummings in his lifetime. It spans his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, and through his last valedictory sonnets. Combining Thoreaus controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression.Today Cummings is recognized as the author of some of the most sensuous lyric poems in the English language as well as one of the most inventive American poets of his timein the words of Richard Kostelanetz, the major American poet of the middle-twentieth century. Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, at once cubistic and figurative, Cummingss work expanded the boundaries of what language is and can do.

Now presented in a beautiful new edition, Complete Poems 19041962 showcases E. E. Cummingss transcendent body of work, collected in its entirety.This edition of E. E. Cummingss Complete Poems contains all the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including 36 poems that were first collected in the 1991 edition and 164 unpublished poems issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera. Combining Thoreaus controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression.Today, Cummings is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems in the English language as well as one of the most inventive American poets of his timein the words of Richard Kostelanetz, the major American poet of the middle-twentieth century.Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, at once cubistic and figurative, Cummingss work expanded the boundaries of what language is and can do.

Edward Estlin Cummings escribió algunas obras de narrativa y teatro y un libro de crítica, I: six nonlectures que recopilaba las lecciones que impartió en la cátedra de poesía Charles Eliot Norton de la Universidad de Harvard, pero sobre todo fue poeta, con una docena de titulos publicados entre 1923 y el año de su muerte. La recopilacion postuma de sus Complete Poems abarca mas de mil paginas. La poesia de Cummings, personal, rebelde, original, experimental, voluntariamente distinta y a menudo inclasificable, no fue bien entendida ni acogida por la critica, pero supo llegar a sus lectores y ganarselos, y lo sigue haciendo, con su tono ferozmente individualista, su radicalismo critico y su juguetona arbitrariedad.

At the time of his death in 1962 E.E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America.For this edition of cummings''s work, George Firmage has gone back to the poet''s original manuscripts to ensure the accuracy of the transcriptions. In particular, the spatial arrangement of the typography now conforms as precisely as possible to cummings''s very specific intentions.To the contents of the volumes published during cummings''s lifetime - now arranged in the order he originally specified - have been added all of the hitherto uncollected poems as well as the unpublished poems first issued in 1983.

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."

FOUR MONTHS AFTER CUMMINGS''S DEATH in September 1962, his widow, the photographer Marion Morehouse, collected the typescripts of 29 new poems. These poems, as well as uncollected poems published only in periodicals up to that time, make up 73 Poems. This is the final volume in Liveright''s reissue of Cummings''s individual volumes of poetry, with texts and settings based on E. E. Cummings: The Complete Poems 1904-1962.

Edward Estlin Cummings nació en Cambridge, Massachusetts, el 14 de octubre de 1894 y murió en Madison, New Hampshire, el 3 de septiembre de 1962. Su padre, Edward Cummings, fue profesor de Harvard, universidad en la que estudio el poeta y en cuyas revistas literarias publico sus primeros versos. La obra de Cummings, quien se distinguio tambien como pintor, es vastisima: mas de un...