Word: lauã
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Though surely more difficult, Sawyer-Lau??anno said his reliance on Cummings’ own writings rather than the accounts of friends and family resulted in the truest and most comprehensive extant portrait of the poet...
...year of research was followed by three years of intense writing, during which Sawyer-Lau??anno said he “was more attuned to the world of 1924 than 2004.” Yet for a work of this 600 page volume’s scope, he considers four years a short duration...
...archival method Sawyer-Lau??anno employed was necessary due to the time elapsed since the subject’s life. The book “was very different from [his previous biographies] in that there were few people alive that knew him during his early and even middle years to interview. In a sense I wrote it five or ten years too late...
...charges commonly levied against Cummings was that he did not develop as a poet. According to Sawyer-Lau??anno, this accusation springs from that fact that Cummings was “so good so early. For the rest of his life he continually refined early experiments.” Continuity is not a sign of weakness here, but of maturity...
...Cummings’ “more difficult poems that function at the syllabic or even phonemic level” along with the huge number of drafts that “vary only by one word, or the spacing of words, or in the margins” gave Sawyer-Lau??anno a reverence for Cummings’ skill. “[His poems] seem so spontaneous, so lively and so free yet they represent such craftsmanship. He appeals to the ear and to the eye,” he said...