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e. (Edward) e. (Estlin) cummings was a romantic poet who never grew up. Most of the good ways he stayed young show in his work. He spent a lifetime strewing lower-case words around the page, attacking conformity and praising women.
Cummings had few ideas. Instead he used a petrified list of "goods" and "bads" about which he felt passionate. Flowers were good, all mechanisms, including radios and vacuum cleaners, bad. Feeling was good, thought bad. Freedom was good, conformity bad. Worst of all was responsibility, something Cummings made a career...
Cummings' father called him "Chub," short for cherub. His mother always wanted a son who would be a poet, and she kept a record. His first verse, at age three: "Oh my little birdie oh/ With his little toe, toe, toe!" At the Cambridge Latin School in Cambridge, Mass...
One of his father's mottoes was "We can't all of us be honored by titles and degrees but we can all be Knights of the Daily Bath." As a Harvard rebel, Cummings more or less gave up washing. Mother sometimes managed to steal his shoes at...
The Ramones is a wonderfully zany new-wave band from the nether suburbs of Manhattan. (Now, pencils up.) The moniker shared by Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Marky gives the group its cozy familial name, although-pencils ready-none of the Ramones is related. In fact-start writing! -none of...