Word: balloonman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward Estlin Cummings, 64 next week, is the goat-footed balloonMan of U.S. poetry, an image he himself used to describe a Pan-piping street vendor of gay toy balloons. In the weather of this poet's heart the season is spring, and as this first collection of new poems in eight years testifies, there is plenty of spring left in his lines (95 Poems; Harcourt, Brace; $4). As ever, Poet Cummings celebrates the life of feeling-love, death and the infinite sea changes of nature. Age has only slightly mellowed Cummings, has not at all curbed his typographical...
...rolling of trousers ... A sunburn of girls and a lark of boys. A silent hullabaloo of balloons." Appearing near the first anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death, this litany for fellow poets, lost youth and loved objects shows again how much the English language will miss its larking balloonman...
...chin arrogant. The ears are large and seemingly tense with listening; they belong to a man who is a born eavesdropper of human speech, machinery or a dissolving sliver of birdsong. On rainy days his slim figure strides buoyantly un der an ancient black umbrella, held aloft like a balloonman's bouquet of balloons...
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