E. E. Cummings Books

I need to read 3 specific poems, and there's no way to see if they are included without being able to : "See Inside".

This is such a great and complete collection of his poetry. It's easily readable (good font size and style). it's divided very well to and easily searchable in the index to find exactly what you're looking for. i love it so much and enjoy just flipping thru and discovering new poems of his i've never read. so amazing.

The book arrived on-time and in perfect condition. Amazon is much preferred over any store because of their dependability and cheap prices.

Hello!

I am searching for a particular poem by EE Cummings, but cannot find out what book I may find the poem in. It's called, "I carry your heart (in my heart). Can you provide any assistance to me? Thank you very much for your time and concern in this matter.

Sincerely,
Eric

"E. E. Cummings Complete Poems (1904-1962)" runs a thousand fifty pages long, not counting the first-line index. In those thousand pages, you get to know the man Cummings like he was your neighbor or even your drinking buddy. I read the book in two weeks: most of the poems were less than one page. Reading the book was like have a conversation with the man's spirit.

Great basic book on homeopathy! Good distiction between things you can take care of on your own and symptoms that would require more attention from a professional. Gives you basic concepts and practical applications.

This book was recommended 20 years ago by our homeopathic doctor. We have used it so much, it is falling apart, so we got this updated version. It has great new information and still contains all the basics that got us through our health issues these past years.

After my first copy wore out, I am now on to my second copy! My kids came down with lots of ear infections when they were small, and I am wary of antibiotics and their overuse. Homeopathy became a great help. Our kids are now in elementary school, and I still use it for their little ailments. This book is written very clearly and provides lots of information without being overwhelming. Even my husband has fallen for it, although he doesn't want to admit it, (or can't explain how it is possible this would actually work, but it does)

This is a great book for natural healing and understanding the homeopathic healing methods. This book is great and easy to understand and read.

I personally found the book uneasy to read and not something that I couldn't find in other books that were much more reader-friendly. The section on understanding homeopathy is much better described in "Impossile Cure" and the info on case-taking is explained better in "The Complete Guide to Homeopathy" I wouldn't recomment this book at all.

This is not a book for everyone. I received this book as a gift from a relative, and that's the main reason I thought I'd try it. The book is a portrayal of E.E. Cummings' imprisonment in France during WWI, and the bulk of the work is a portrayal of the many characters Cummings saw at the prison -- and the many cruelties they suffered at the hands of their keepers and each other. While Cummings' prose is casual, ironic, and sometimes amusing, the work as a whole suffers from a lack of a plot to drive it forward. I frequently grew tired of reading one elaborate character sketch after another. Other people obviously are forgiving of this fault because they enjoy Cummings' prose so much, but I couldn't bear it.

This book somehow fell onto my shelves, perhaps because the author illustrated it and I like artists drawings, but I had not read it..until today. This is a story of early Cummings. He volunteered to do service in WW1 as an ambulance worker in France-versus conscription- meeting and making a friend along the way to the assignment. (I had a grandfather in this war so it is interesting to me on several levels.) Once there in France they spend a month in Paris due to some mistake (much like my own Dad did prior to shipping to Guam in his service days-tho he was in CA.) They learn French as they are pretty sharp and have a great time and then get sent to do very boring work under some real bullet head dumb heads who basically make their lives a hell. As it happens reality hits- they encounter Americans with grave disrespect for the French-can't stand how uneducated and ridiculously all for America they are, cozy up too much to French workers, the friend writes letters and French intelligence ironically seizes the letters and then them as possibly problematically revealing things about French troops-they are in deep. So this book is the tale of being arrested and put in jail. And staying there for a good while tho not forever for talking too much in letters home about things learning French and fraternizing revealed to them. Or in other words they were too "different".. What I liked is the fascinating humor that peeks into the text account, the turn of phrase, naming tricks, the truth telling. Cummings could have sprung himself by saying he "hated Germans" in his initial questioning as it really was his friend's writing issue, but he doesn't want to abandon his friend nor own that thought. Many the time I put myself in worse places with that particular kind of spirit.You just have to love how he frames these scenes. It was to him essentially far better to be captive than to be under the stupidity of his prior assignment as a volunteer especially if it required sucking up to idiotically misrepresented swearing allegiances. Its not the only time I've read such stuff but the voice here is quite unique... I really enjoyed the way in just a few pages you drop into the stinking cell and practical realities of confinement, the absurdity, the introspection, the look at how the detainees fare with this, those that hold them, deny them livable treatment. All in all a very interesting account of this particular experience in his life replete with his small images. It is poetic.

Quite obviously at some point in situations of absurdity there is a point in which certainly it becomes easily read as an ordeal of spirit, maybe Christ like comparisons...maybe sacrificial lamb like because certainly this is an understood frame. He's enduring something that speaks to man's capacity to inflict on one another remarkably stupid and devaluing experiences, to mistake and to blunder in such stultifying ways....so the journey is. You laugh because its possible what you are seeing is an entire tableau of individuals so far beyond their capacity deciding and in control simply doing a lot of ridiculously idiotic things with no one stopping it. I liked Catch 22 for much the same kind of comment. What I find remarkable is he lived to tell about it-for these kinds of situations can go very bad, very wrong, very randomly. He recovered, he wrote, he evolved creative voice and wrote about spring and balloons and lots of things in the now of IS ness, his belief. And the work was good.
If you are looking to delve into a journal through a bad experience written to capture the oddities and insights of someone with remarkable turn of phrase, French phrases, mind language galore....with a kind of irreverence, wit, sweet bird of youth, here and now, stink of the urinal...this is very good. As they say the more things change, the more it is the same, no?

Best known for his poetry, "The Enormous Room" may seem like a departure for e.e. cummings. The artist turned his experience as a prisoner-of-war in France during WWI into a lyric memoir that reads like a novel. At times poetic, at others almost laughingly absurd in its depictions of the absurdities of imprisonment, "The Enormous Room" is a delectable read.

Cummings begins his novel by recounting his arrest and that of his friend, referred to only as B. They are eventually separated, and questioned, only to be reunited in jail. Apparently B. wrote some letters that the French censors considered to be seditious, and since Cummings was his constant companion and wouldn't denounce his friend, he was sent to jail as well. The remainder of the novel is filled with sketches of everyday life and the fellow inmates that Cummings befriends during his stay. For that reason, it reads like a series of vignettes rather than a cohesive novel.

While I enjoyed the book overall, I did not like the edition I had - an older printing of the Everyman's Library, which included no translations for entire conversations in French. Perhaps the most poignant aspect of "The Enormous Room" is the letter included at the start, written by Cummings' father as he tries to discover exactly what has happened to his son. Anyone familiar with the poems of e.e. cummings can see the poetry in his prose, in his descriptions and observations about life in jail, and the delight he takes in the rare moments of beauty that he could find.

E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room (Liveright, 1921)

Cummings became famous for his poetry, but before that he wrote a now obscure novel-cum-memoir about his temporary imprisonment during World War I, The Enormous Room. Modeled loosely after Bunyan's magnum opus, Pilgrim's Progress, Cummings gives us the arrest and detention (for he is never sent to prison, only detained awaiting the word of the Commission on whether he is to be imprisoned or freed) of a friend of his and himself. The friend is charged with treason after writing letters home critical of the French government; Cummings is charged with nothing but being his friend.

The book touches all the expected bases; the horrors of war, problems with authority, etc., etc. Nothing here you haven't seen before. What causes it to stand out is Cummings' treatment of the whole thing. Cummings takes an horrific experience and makes it a whimsical way to pass the time, only allowing enough of the horror to show through so that the reader can understand the irony of Cummings' presentation here.

The book is well-written, though a bit jarring in places; it is written rather like you would hear the story from someone sitting next to you at the club smoking a cigar, although all too overeager at times. Cummings' enthusiasm for his subject, though, is a refreshing change from the usual war novel. This is not a book that is easy to digest, but is worth the effort. *** ½

Never more relevant than today, eighty-some years removed from World War I (to end all wars, ironically), this book deals with issues that nations still have not seemed to solved: fascist governments, disregard for due process, injustice in the name of expediency and national security. That the US quarantines Japanese-Americans twenty years after its first run only embarasses us; that eighty years later we still do the same thing breaks your heart.

Mr. Cummings writes in a sort of stream-of-consciousness first person, something on the order of Romantic prose mixed with his own style that is inimitably his own. A student of Cummings might be quick to see the parallel between his earliest poems and that evolution to his modern free verse, as taking place within this novel right before one's eyes.

Enjoyable stories, and Mr. Cummings and his friend are something of snobs, something of braggards even (becoming fluent in French after two weeks is extremely hard to believe). The annoyance quickly passes (and crops up again whever he mentions how much more evolved he is than other Americans) when he paints such vivid mental images of life in the enormous room, the ennui and absurdity of being held without due process, and the veritable Ellis Island of characters populating his new world.

A reader would do well to approach this book without reading the hyperbole of its back cover or the well-meaning but misguided praqises of some reviewers. This is a great book, but not a classic. Cummings is not a master novelist, which does not dimish his effort or take anything from his creative genius. Rather, it is much like falling into the trap of thinking a master in one form can be a master in another. Enjoy the reading, and marvel at ironic relevance it holds for us today.

Fred

The book helped me a lot. I never had general biology before taking the exam. For best use, I read "Biology: Life on Earth" to give an overview of the topic and the major mechanisms behind it. Then, I used other textbooks which had much more details on the subject. This method worked well, for example, for DNA replication and Protein Synthesis on which "Biology: Life on Earth" seems to have left out some information. So this is a great biology "starter" and if you decide/need to know more, other in-depth textbooks will be helpful.

The first book I received had about 25 pages that were defective but that was quickly replaced with a new one. I really wish I did not have to buy it but since I did, the book was OK as far as a text book goes.

This is a good book for studying biology and would recommend it. The price was exceptionally low as well.

This book goes into explaining Hardy-Weinberg principle and doesn't even have the equation for it! Nor does it mention two important words in the same chapter - dominant and recessive. If you want to look at pictures of animals and read over-simplified explanations then buy it. If your are looking for a scholarly book, then I would suggest to look elsewhere.

The major problem with this book is that there is so much unnecessary paragraphs which can just be said in a couple of sentences. This book is only good for those who have major trouble grasping the concepts and are in need of a mass amount of analogies and metaphors. If you are looking for a Biology book straight to the point, this is not for you; a better book is "Inquiry into Life" by Sylvia S. Mader. Once I read "Inquiry into Life," I found that "Biology: Life on Earth" was too drawn out. It is also not as detailed as I had expected it to be.

you'd be much better off to buy other volumes in the series. This two-volume anthology is generally a two-thousand page waste of time. Most poetry is consigned to oblivion for a reason! What is here rescued is frankly not worth it, and the "literature" here is of historical rather than intrinsic interest. A monument to "inclusivity" and "diversity," but full of poor writing, the Common Reader is here advised to invest in Library of America's wonderful volumes of the poetry of Frost, Stevens, Whitman, and, whenever they finally appear in the future, Dickinson, Melville, Eliot, and Bishop.

The real job of the anthologist is not, of course, to assemble anthologies but to anger and annoy readers. Only census takers have more doors slammed in their innocent faces. That said, a few words in defense of this excellent volume. Yes, there's plenty of second-tier or third-tier verse here, and those in search of pure poetry (no rocks, no soda, shaken not stirred) should probably save their pennies and buy the LOA volumes devoted to Frost, Stevens, etc etc. But a book like this one does give a splendid sense of cultural context. Sometimes the giants loom only larger when they're stuck in a line-up with their diminutive peers. And some of those lesser lights are actually quite talented, too. So unless you're truly fixated on iambic quality control, you should find much to love, and even more to like, in the capacious and paper-thin pages of APTTCV1.

I think the two volumes published thus far are only half of what's expected, but I'm not sure, as these were put into print five years ago, as far as I can tell. There is plenty to enjoy here, and some to rightfully forget. There's also plenty missing. (Attempts at political correctness can be so tedious and obvious.) For instance, on the enjoyment side, Marianne Moore's The Steeple-Jack is a wonder of construction, as is Robert Frost's obsessively worked out "Familiar with the Night." But such anthologies as this are always questioned as to the method of selection, the poets disregarded, and the poems picked. Why, for instance, was Marianne Moore's Octopus overlooked? Where are W. H. Auden, Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Allen Ginsburg, and James Merrill, among so many others? Are they still to come? I hope so. And I just don't care for Gertrude Stein. Her work is unreadable and does nothing at all for me. I don't know why so much space is always allotted to her in so many anthologies. Yes, I get the point. No, I don't need 37 pages of this point. It seems her importance only lies in who she knew and how she lived, not in any actual talent she had.

If the Library of America is coming out with any more volumes to round out the twentieth century, they are taking their sweet time about it. I really can't wait that long. In the meantime, a new American anthology is due out from Oxford in 2006, edited by David Lehman. I've had a sneak peek, and it's inclusive and won't disappoint.

This volume is the second of a projected four volume anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry in the Library of America series. American poetry richly deserves this extensive treatment, and this series may serve to introduce America's poets to a growing number of readers.

This volume begins with E.E.Cummings (born 1894) and concludes with May Swenson (born 1913) The volume has almost an embarrassment of riches. By my count there are 122 separate poets included. The book includes a brief biography of each writer included which is invaluable for reading the book.

As with any anthology of this nature,the selection is a compromise between inclusiveness and quality. Readers may quarrel with the relative weight given to various poets in terms of number of pages, and with the inclusion or exclusion of writers. (I was disappointed that a poet I admire, Horace Gregory, gets only two pages, for example). Overall, it is a wonderful volume and includes some greatpoetry.

There are favorites and familiar names here and names that will be familiar to few. A joy of a book such as this is to see favorites and to learn about poets one hasn't read before.

A major feature of this volume is its emphasis on diversity -- much more so than in volume 1 or in the Library of America's 19th century poetry anthologies. There are many Jewish poets (including Reznikoff, a favorite ofmine, Zukofsky, Alter Brody, Rose Drachler, George Oppen, Karl Shapiro, and others) and even more African-American Poets (Lanston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Waring Cuney, Sterling Brown, Arna Bontemps, Robert Hayden and many more.) There are also selections from blues and popular songs which to me is overdone.

Of the poets unknown to me, I enjoyed particularly Lorine Niedecker, Laura Riding, and Janet Lewis -- women are well represented in this volume.

I have taken the title of this review from the Cape Hatteras section of "The Bridge" by Hart Crane.(page 229) Crane has more pages devoted to him than any other writer in the volume and deservedly so. "The Bridge" and "Voyages" are presented complete together with some of the shorter poems. This tragic, tormented and gifted writer tried in The Bridge to present a vision of America mystical in character, celebratory of the merican experience, and inclusive in its diversity. The poem is a worthy successor to the poetry of Whitman who is celebrated in it. The title of the review,I think, captures both Crane's poem as well as the goal of the volume as a whole in capturing something of the diversity of experience reflected in 20th Century American Verse.

Although not widely read and appreciated, American poetry underwent a renaissance in the Twentieth Century. At some point, readers will look back at our Twentieth Century poetry as a benchmark of literature and a guide to the thoughts, feelings, and events of our difficult century.

In this, the first of four projected volumes covering the Twentieth Century, the Library of America gives access to a treausre of reading, moving, elevating, and disturbing. The book consists of readings from 85 (by my count) poets. The poets, are arranged chronologically by the poet's birthday. The earliest writer in the volume is Henry Adams (born 1838) and the concluding writer is Dorothy Parker (born 1893). Some writers that flourished later in life, such as Wallace Stevens, thus appear in the volume before works of their peers, such as Pound and Elliot, who became famous earlier.

For me, the major poets in the volume are (not surprising choices here), Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, W.C. Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot, Marianne Moore. They are represented by generous selections,including Elliot's Waste Land, Steven's Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction, and several Pound Canto's given in their entirety.

It is the mark of a great literary period that there are many writers almost equally meriting attention together with the great names. There are many outstanding writers here, some known, some unknown. To name only a few, I would includeE.A Robinson, James Weldon Johnson, Adelaide Crapsey, Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, H.D. Robinson Jeffers, John Crowe Ransom, Conrad Aiken, Samuel Greenberg. It would be easy to go on.

There are different ways to read an anthology such as this. One way is to browse reading poems as they catch the reader's eye. Another way is to read favorite poems the reader already knows.

I would suggest making the effort to read the volume through from cover to cover. Before beginning the paricular poet, I would suggest reading the biographical summary at the end of the volume. These are short but excellent and illuminate the authors and the poetry. The notes are sparse, but foreign terms in Pound and Elliot's poetry are translated, and we have selections from Elliot's and Marianne Moore's own notes.

By reading the volume through,one gets a sense of continuity and context. Then, the reader can devote attention to individual poems. Some twentieth century works, such as those by Pound, Elliott,Moore Stevens are notoriously difficult. Read the works through,if you are coming to them for the first time, and return to them later.

I was familiar with many of the poems in the book before reading the anthology but much was new to me. I learned a great deal. My favorite poet remains Wallace Stevens, partly because he comibined the life of a man of affairs, as an attorney and insurance executive, with deep art. This remains an ideal for me. It is true as well for W.C. Williams, although I am less fond of his poetry.

The title to this review is taken from "Libretto" by Ezra Pound,
(page 371). It is the best single sentence summation I can think of for the contents of this volume.

I am a biochemistry major at the university of the philippines. i have several biochem books on my shelf and i just recently purchased a copy of the 2000 edition (i also have the 2nd ed). the book just keeps getting better. the book really helps a lot especially when the class lecture corresponds with how the book presents the subject matter. as a biochem major, i'd say this is a pretty good way to present biochem. it makes it seem easy and fun to read. you look at the pictures and read the caption and you learn the idea in a flash.

It's difficult to review a book on a subject as biochemistry, when you're a student, and this is the only book I've read on the subject. This book is used by medical students at the Universty of Bergen, Norway, and as a student I find it very easy to read (if you have mind that biochemistry is not an easy subject). The illustrations and figures in the book are helpful, and often, you can get the essential in the text by only looking at the figures.

I have not seen the 2000 edition yet, but the previous edition is very elegantly written. Compare with some other biochemistry text, this book provides another view into biochemistry. Almost (if not all) all the chapters have a special topic after the chapter text, showing you how we can turn the dry text into useful experimental tools for solving life's problem, scientifically. These special topics also give us a view into the physical chemistry world, which has become more and more important at the time.

Don't misjudge my review; I'm not just some lazy kid who hates all work. I'm in the honors program at UCI studying to be a doctor. And this book isn't very good. The reading, I will grant, isn't too bad. Most of the time it's easy to follow, and sometimes it's confusing. However, the problem comes when you try to put it all to the test and do the problems at the end of the chapter. Not only does the book present problems that were not covered in the reading, but it doesn't explain the answers, either. It just gives them to you. I am forced to constantly ask a friend of mine if he knows how to get the answer they give, because the book gives no indication of how to arrive at it. It also withholds information; in one problem in chapter 5 the answer they give is only possible, ONLY possible, if chymotrypsin cleaves a protein at isoleucine (the book only gives leucine, not iso-). In the next problem, it is virtually the same thing, taking cleavage information and trying to put amino acids in the correct order. However, in this one, their answer insists that you NOT cleave at isoleucine. Otherwise you'd be wrong and wonder what you did. Of course, you'd get no explanation. If you have to get this book for a class, then fine. Good luck with the homework if you have to turn in the problems. But if you're getting it to further challenge yourself of your own accord, search around for some type of solutions manual first, because this book won't tell you how to get anything. It assumes you have a lot of background knowledge already, so I don't know where one reviewer got the notion that this is great for beginners...if you want a good book for beginners, seek out the Garrett & Grisham book. It simplifies biochemistry beyond belief compared to this book.

Mathew's Biochemistry is an excellent book to start this difficult subject! The easy diagrams and interesting notes just keeps you wanting to learn more...Read, read and read. If only it could have a more clinical focus it would be 100% perfect. Combine it with "Harper's Biochemistry" and you will soon run A+ on scores! To die for!

The wording is difficult to read aloud to a young child, but the stories are fun and my two year old enjoys them. She really likes the artwork in the book.

Cummings may be known for his unique style of poetry, but he should also be remembered for the most sensitive, loving fairy tales of the 20th Century. Read them to your children, no matter how old they are. I have been reading them for over 35 years.-- Sam Yulish, author of "Where Have All the Hippies Gone?" and "The Hesitant Psychic and other Strange Stories."

The dedication of this volume tells us that Cummings wrote these tales for his daughter when she was a very little girl. But even if it hadn't, any reader would have known. As you read, it's as if you can hear a parent telling the stories to his child over a sleepy bedtime. The stories have an effortless feeling as if they are being spoken rather than written. This free and easy quality combined with the spectacularly imaginative subjects make for a really fun reading experience.

Unless you have a really patient child, however, I wouldn't recommend this edition for sit-on-the-lap reading. The illustrations aren't particularly engaging. Rather, I would let your kids sit down with some blank paper and a box of crayons and ask them to draw their own pictures while you read out loud to them. Or read to them at bedtime when their eyes are closed. These are the kinds of stories to be savored by the senses rather than "follow-along-while-I-read."

These fairy tales are beautifully nonsensical and touching to even those who are less than sentimental. They are precious, without any reservation using such a word. Each was evidently written with a careful, loving authorship and a sense of humor that without a doubt is the creative quirkiness of the poet Edward Estlin Cummings. If you know the poet, the tender, innocent personalness of these tales might even surprise you, or, at least, bring you closer to him and his writings.

i will begin with "the elephant and the butterfly," and then will work on "The Old Man Who Said 'Why?'"

one day before i die...

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This book has been enormously helpful for me! Although it is HUGE and HEAVY to lug around, I know that the material that is inside is both interesting and accurate. The concepts are explained in terms for lay people, and the pictures/graphs they use are usually helpful to re-define points.

Would I buy this book for fun? Likely not, but for the class I'm taking that requires it I don't think it was money wasted.

Alright. So, you're hopefully going into a biology class and this book is required for the course. If you plan on just reading the textbook for the hell of it, have at it, but its going to take some pure biology interest to want to even finish the first five chapters. But, for a bio. course, its an awesome book for its in depth details, numerous easy-to-understand figures, and readily available cd-rom. The book is def. helpful, especially when you don't like hearing useless lectures.

If you are as much a fan of ee cummings as me, you just have to buy this. For about 8 years, I've been reading his poetry, but this is the first time that I ever heard his voice. I could tell you how my expectations were wrong, but that would ruin the fun for you. I would have liked to have more poems, instead of the lengthy works, but maybe now I'll take a closer look at those too. If I knew about this tape years ago, I would have gotten it then

After listening to this tape, one will understand how e.e. cummings attracted large audiences to his readings. Each syllable is spoken with care, and you can hear and feel the unique rhythms of his poetry. cummings has a musical voice with a range that conveys a variety of emotions. This tape is an insight not only to the work of cummings, but to the oral art of poetry as well.

Side One of this cassette contains passages from two of Cummings' plays, HIM, and the blank-verse SANTA CLAUS, as well as the bewilderingly jazzy account of visiting Lenin's tomb, taken from his ponderous book EIMI. "Him" is a joyous ars poetica, and the blank verse of "Santa" is deft and enchanting.

But Side Two is the reason for buying this recording: eighteen of Cummings' poems written at the peak of his powers: odes to Spring and odes to Love, and a blithely undaunted championing of the proudhumble "i" against the drab machinery of egalitarianism. Nine of the poems are sonnets, all of the poems are in the nimble idiom that is so recongizably his own.

The small lyric "yes is a pleasant country" (14th of the eighteen poems) is as delicate and fine as anything by Robert Herrick.

The listener will finds herself memorizing these poems, perhaps without intending to. Cummings' mellow, sharp, distinctive, and occasionally cranky voice gives him the slight edge over the unremittingly stentorian yet much beloved Dylan Thomas as the premier reader of poetry in the twentieth century.

To paraphrase Cummings himself: "we thank you, estlin, for most these amazing songs."

Very informative, this manual requires some time to complete all exercises but is extremely beneficial for any student. I would definitely recommend using this manual to assist you in your educational endeavors.

This A&P lab book is well written and easy to follow. The pictures are diagrams are accurate and clear. It's a great tool to visit before you dive into the textbook for the A&P class. I would recommend this lab book to any student!

If a book is going to ask questions it should easily offer the answers to these questions in the reading before the questions. This book does not do that. I find this very frusterating. I do appreciate the colorful images though.