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PASSION AND GLORY ? William Cummings???Knopf ($2.50). Lens, a young Norwegian in a New England fishing town, is frustrate, since his dumb passion has been denied by the woman he loves and harlots do not satisfy him. So he turns with a mystical simplicity to God. God gives Lens passion to win the woman he loves. But there is no glory; their son dies at birth. The sins of the fathers. . . . After a few years she dies, too, and then there is neither passion nor glory for Lens. At last he stumbles upon glory, finding that...
...POEMS?E. E. Cummings???Dial-Press ($2.50). Upon the pages of a far haughtier, a far less circulated magazine* than that for which Author Connell writes, lines of fiery poetry are often encountered, drooping through their allotted space a syllable at a time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore...
TULIPS AND CHIMNEYS?E. E. Cummings???Seltzer ($2.00). E. E. Cummings was in a French prison during a great part of the war. His protest took the shape of a highly naturalistic narrative called The Enormous Room. In the present volume we have a collection of his poetry. His work is always distinguished by a rigid adherence to freedom. He would rather die than be usual. The result is a riot of noise and color, of poems sprawling across and around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift...
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