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...writing, Sawyer-Lau??anno said he fully realized the debt that contemporary poetry owes to Cummings. “He broke rules, the sanctity of the left margin, the splitting of words. In this way he was a pioneer...
...egocentrist, in single-minded pursuit of his art,” Sawyer-Lau??anno related. “He was a dedicated artist, dedicated to [Ezra Pound’s philosophy of] ‘making...
...Sawyer-Lau??anno also reported that Cummings’ time at Harvard was invaluable. “He drew off what he learned in his undergraduate years throughout his life and also depended on the associations and friends he made there,” he said...
None of these discoveries would have been possible were it not for Harvard’s Houghton Library, which made Cummings’ personal papers available to Sawyer-Lau??anno, including suicide notes and reflections on consultations with his psychiatrists. “Nearly every scrap of paper he had written was saved,” he said. They added up to hundreds of boxes of diaries, correspondence, and drafts of poetry...
...sheer bulk of this collection made research a grueling task; Sawyer-Lau??anno spent a full year simply reading through all the documents. He confesses that so overwhelming was the abundance of information, “there were times when I didn’t want to find anything else...