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Article: POET'S WICKED WITE.E. CUMMINGS' POETRY TURNS OUT TO BE THE WRITE STUFF FOR A MUSICAL.(PREVIEW)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 11, 1996
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Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gestures are things which enclose me,
or which cannot touch because they are too near
Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Massachusetts, on Oct. 14, 1894, and died in New Hampshire on Sept. 3, 1962. In the years between those two dates Cummings set about living a life travelling, reading, painting, playmaking, enjoying spring and leaving an unimpeachable, earnestly individualistic imprint on American poetry; a lower case legacy that lingers as potent now as on his ...