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IT is fitting to review together the recent volumes of verse by Cummings and Kirstein. Both are Harvard men (Cummings graduated in 1915, and Kirstein in 1930), and both names connote, at least in Philistia, the no plus ultra of that kind of modern literature which baffles the plain man...
No THANKS-e. e. cummings-Golden Eagle Press ($2).
Edward Estlin Cummings fulfills a U. S. tradition in being the cut-up son of a parson. The U. S. public (in so far as it has heard of him) takes him much less seriously than the unfortunate typesetters who have to follow his rocketing, pinwheeling copy. Whether Poet Cummings...
His poetry is another matter. His latest collection, dedicated to 14 Manhattan publishers (because they would not publish the book), is Cummings at his most untrammeled typical. Apoplectic or easily worried readers had best leave it alone; but bolder or more placid spirits will come to no harm, may even...
*Poem 44, for which Author Cummings does not seek wide circulation but which he wishes to ''exist for posterity." will appear only in the holograph edition (limited to nine copies at $99 each) wherein Mr. Cummings will write it in longhand.