tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post1659428718266118992..comments2024-02-22T15:48:50.427-08:00Comments on Poems and Poetics: Rethinking E. E. Cummings: An Appeal for a New Reading (Part Two)Jerome Rothenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166931849293504537noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-46516343250615635352011-05-24T06:53:07.174-07:002011-05-24T06:53:07.174-07:00Vunderful, vunderful. Your viewpoint matches mine ...Vunderful, vunderful. Your viewpoint matches mine <a href="http://billsigler.blogspot.com/2010/10/happpppp-ee-bearth-d-ee-eecummings.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> from a more "grown-up" perspective.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-22374835837339043432010-08-09T16:26:48.061-07:002010-08-09T16:26:48.061-07:00Thank you for this.
Cummings reminds me of my rel...Thank you for this.<br /><br />Cummings reminds me of my relationship to Vonnegut. Both were bridges in my teens between kid reading and adult reading (whatever those terms mean). I'm silly to hold that against them now.BDRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-37972018215629737602010-08-09T11:44:48.223-07:002010-08-09T11:44:48.223-07:00I went off into Chinese Ideograms via Pound/Fenol...I went off into Chinese Ideograms via Pound/Fenollosa (thanks to <br />Mrs Fenollosa's sending the ms to Pound<br /><br />read diligently Olson's "stuff" but felt that he was well<br /><br /> doing more talking-about-doing than doing<br /><br />so we got me to cave drawings/writings<br /><br />and the mere soundings of what was/is chanted or spoken<br /> is an oral language/communication that<br /> can only be hinted at via the visiual of "it" so<br /><br />what is on a page is <br />it s own "thing" just-as-it-is<br /><br />and (must) require(s) the reader/viewer to assign any subsequent-consequential meaning/s<br /><br />you might be interested in my 1970 piece<br /><br /> Points/Counterpoints<br /><br />via Fact-Simile Press<br /><br />http://fact-simile.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br />I sort of "kiss-off" both Pound and (what I then knew of) Olson's "stuff"<br /><br /><br />only Cummings I have:<br /><br />- i SIX NONLECTURES<br />- 50 poems<br />- erotic poems<br /><br />TERRIFIC ESSAY/trip your <br /><br />Rethinking E. E. Cummings<br /><br /><br />and<br /><br />thanks for writing his name as it should be.<br /><br />I think that the lower-case way was <br />an error by the publisher of i Six Nonlectures (1953)<br /><br />as Cummings copyrighted it as E. E. CUMMINGS<br /><br /><br />and let it go in other things of his got<br />published.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-13951696742397691842010-08-07T08:13:39.562-07:002010-08-07T08:13:39.562-07:00I am a big fan of E. E. Cummings. Thanks for the a...I am a big fan of E. E. Cummings. Thanks for the article.<br />http://alifeofrhyme.blogspot.combizkyhttp://alifeofrhyme.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-8485826337768927762010-08-06T13:24:49.380-07:002010-08-06T13:24:49.380-07:00Jerry:
You might find interesting my essay "...Jerry:<br /><br />You might find interesting my essay "The Text as an Image of Itself" in Volume IV of the Collected Poems of Larry Eigner, Edited by me and Robert Grenier, (Stanford University Press, 2010). In it, I touch briefly on Larry's relationship to Olson, Cummings, Moore, Williams and Pound. <br /><br />Cummings had a number of competing tendencies, including Renaissance lyric, 18th Century satire, Romantic love poetry, late Victorian music (like Swinburne & Browning), in addition to his interest in visual arts (being a painter, after all, which he never missed the chance of mentioning--plus "a draughtsman of words" etc.). He's never quite a "concrete" poet, though a handful of the late poems in 95 Poems and 73 Poems get pretty close to Chinese painting. <br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Curtis Faville<br /><br />P.S. I can still recall your reading/chanting the Frank Mitchell poems in Anselm's poetry class at Iowa in 1970. I used to hum it to myself while driving sometimes.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com