E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. His many awards included an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Bollingen Prize. Among his many volumes are The Enormous Room and Tulips & Chimneys. Stephen Dunn is the author of seventeen poetry collections, including What Goes On: New and Selected Poems 1995-2009 and, most recently, Here and Now. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his collection Different Hours. He has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Richard Stockton College, he lives in Frostburg, Maryland, with his wife, the writer Barbara Hurd.
Cummings was one of the most spirited and original American writers
of the 20th century.-- "Wall Street Journal"
One of the greatest lyric poets in our language.--John Logan
"Modern American Poetry"
To return to...his poems is to return to a buoyancy and
boisterousness, of course, but also to an odd
bountifulness...[encapsulating] a profound sense of wonder and
wistfulness.--Paul Muldoon "The New Yorker"
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