By E. E. Cummings,George James Firmage,Susan Cheever

ISBN-10: 0554320584

ISBN-13: 9780554320588

ISBN-10: 1981494669

ISBN-13: 9781981494668

“Of the entire paintings via younger males who've sprung up given that 1920 one e-book survives—The huge, immense Room via E. E. Cummings.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald

The such a lot remarkable paintings of fiction from our so much loved modernist poet, The huge, immense Room was once one of many greatest—yet nonetheless no longer absolutely famous— American literary works to emerge out of worldwide warfare I. Drawing on E. E. Cummings’s studies in France as a volunteer ambulance motive force, this novel takes us via a sequence of mishaps that resulted in the poet’s being arrested for treason and imprisoned. Out of this trauma Cummings produced a piece like no other—a tale of oppression and injustice informed together with his attribute linguistic strength and unflappable exuberance, which celebrates the spirit of the person and provides a courageous and tremendous competition within the face of the inhumanity of war.

Illustrated with drawings Cummings made whereas imprisoned in France and that includes an illuminating new advent by means of Susan Cheever, this reissued version bargains a special and multifaceted lens onto the internal lifetime of the poet in his formative years and calls for popularity by means of a twenty-first-century readership.

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