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95 Poems

E. E. Cummings · 1958 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Modernist

A single leaf comes down the page, the letters of loneliness split around a parenthesis so that the fall has to be read a character at a time. Others give thanks for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky, watch four girls find a shell, a stone and a crab on a beach, and address a small self at a window in autumn. The late collection, published the year he took the Bollingen Prize.

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