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...writing, Sawyer-Lauçanno said he fully realized the debt that contemporary poetry owes to Cummings. “He broke rules, the sanctity of the left margin, the splitting of words. In this way he was a pioneer...
...There were consistent bombshells. He was not a warm and fuzzy person,” Sawyer-Lauçanno said. “It doesn’t square with the work he produced. He was certainly struggling with himself...
...When you write the truth, you ruffle some feathers,” Sawyer-Lauçanno said. “Some people want to preserve their notion of Cummings. I was obligated to tell the truth and not gloss over his darker and less salient aspects...
Sawyer-Lauçanno said that it was difficult to maintain an even hand. “He held many views antithetical to my own and to the mainstream. At times it was rather unnerving...
...outset, Sawyer-Lauçanno said he was not sure what he wanted to achieve with the biography, simply wanting to tell Cummings’ story. “Cummings has been a longtime passion for me,” he revealed. “I thought it would be interesting to put him in the context of his time and his peers...