Most of them are hardly a page long and very short but like my aversion of short stories there was something in this book of short poems that just didn’t click with me. I enjoy the way Cummings plays with words and uses unconventional syntax. E.E. It's hard to rate an anthology of poetry because there were individual poems in there that I drop-dead loved, others I just liked. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It contains one hundred of Cummings’s wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. Quantity: There were others I did not like at all and there were some I had trouble understanding. As I finished this slim book, I puzzled over how to best explain how it makes me feel. Well, for me, he is more engaging than many poets that others fawn over. I feel like I could read these again in a couple of years and it would be a completely different experience. Sed quam odio, porta a finibus quis, sagittis aliquet leo. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. E.E. Something went wrong. Some of the poems are quite good and some are too gimmick-infused for my taste. The main characters of 100 Selected Poems novel are John, Emma. His reputation then started to decline as it came to be felt that his technique was more trickery and an attempt to snag attention than a way to impart greater meaning. Please try again. I find reviewing poetry like reviewing a color. I had always thought Cummings was all about punctuation and syntax gimmicks, but reading this slim volume made me reevaluate his poetry. I actually read them in March 2016 but it's poems within my LIT book that I counted as read already :). Copy link. 30 Day Replacement Guarantee. i’d definitely love to read more of his poetry though! I enjoy this little book a lot. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which Cummings is famous. E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904–1962, 150 Most Famous Poems: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman and many more, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series), The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition, COSORI Air Fryer Max XL(100 Recipes) Electric Hot Oven Oilless Cooker LED Touch Screen with 13 Cooking Functions, Preheat and Shake Reminder, Nonstick Basket, 5.8 QT, DIGITAL-Black, E.E. None of this affects the contents, but it makes … Every time I read this collection of verses, I find new favorites and gain new understanding of cummings’s work. I know some people love this guys stuff, but I couldn't really get into it, at least some of them looked nice. 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