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Title	:	Tulips & Chimneys
Author	:	E.E. Cummings
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	August 17th 1996 by Liveright Publishing Corp. (first published 1923)
Categories	:	Poetry. Classics. Literature. American. 20th Century

Tulips & Chimneys

E.E. Cummings

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 4.38 | 1264 Users | 57 Reviews

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I've had this for ten years and this is the first time I've read it. If only I read this earlier in life . . . The first twenty pages or so are gorgeous, but spent too much time in my head and didn't make it into my guts, while the end, the sonnets, especially those last few, are breathtaking. Literally, I couldn't breathe. Whenever I think I'm pushing the boundaries of the way I use language, I need only to flip open this book for a wallop in the jaws, that says, "nice try, back to the drawing board."

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Original Title:	Tulips and Chimneys
ISBN:	0871401657 (ISBN13: 9780871401656)
Edition Language:	English

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TIL that I don't like all of e.e.cummings poems. I do not like his earliest works, the really, really, really long love poems in particular. But I'd never read his sonnets before this, and was so happy to discover them. All in all, I'm glad I read this and got to know his body of work better.

His Realities, Unrealities and Actualities sonnets are the most beautiful in this collection. They will be poems I cherish dearly. Such beautiful work. This is also my first exposure to Cummings' work and those sonnets went straight up with my favourite poems. The sonnets are so intimate and for some corny reason I thought that one day I'd really like to read them aloud to a lover.I wish I could quote them all here.

As a life-long (or middle-school on) e.e. cummings fan, I am always surprised by how much of his poetry I don't really like. In this first collection (1923), I found several poems to be florid and overdone. For example, "Epithalamion" is filled with classical references I can't get myself to care about. BUT, of course, there are the poems filled with poignancy and sheer loveliness. Cummings' early poetry has themes of love, sex, and death--which, in my opinion, are three of the four main topics

It's like gorging on bright blue pastels, and then gargling vanilla vodka and Pop Rocks, while listening to rhythms of an unintelligible reading of the Iliad. Oh, and he likes to objectify women :(

Fantastic play with sounds and punctuation! Cummings is the 12-tone composer of poetry!

Cummings does not disappoint in his usual subject areas. I have always loved his Seasons, and he hits love and passion in this collection with a dose of grit and crudeness that brought humor into his writing.

in the rain-darkness, the sunsetbeing sheathed i sit andthink of you *my mind isa big hunk of irrevocable nothing *a wind has blown the rain away and blownthe sky away and all the leaves away,and the trees stand. I think i too have knownautumn too long(and what have you to say,wind wind winddid you love somebodyand have you the petal of somewhere in your heartpinched from dumb summer?*the mind is its own beautiful prisoner.