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ε. ε. κάμμινγκς: Ποιήματα
[...] Την εποχή του θανάτου του ο Κάμμινγκς ήταν από τους πιο πολυδιαβασμένους ποιητές της Αμερικής. Στην εποχή μας η ποίησή του εξακολουθεί να γίνεται ανάρπαστη κι εκείνος να παραμένει μπροστάρης. Ο Κάμμινγκς είναι συνώνυμος του πειραματικού πνεύματος και της ποιητικής τόλμης· με τόση ένταση ώστε ακόμη και η ενασχόληση μαζί του να προσδίδει αυτομάτως μία αίσθηση κύρους (από κείνη που σκοτώνει). [...]
[...] Οι επιλογές των ποιημάτων έγιναν από την έκδοση των απάντων του, "Complete Poems 1904-1962" (Liveright 1994), λαμβάνοντας υπόψη τις επιλογές ποιημάτων που έκανε ο ίδιος το 1960, για την έκδοση "Selected Poems" που κυκλοφόρησε στη σειρά "The Penguim Poets".
Η ποίηση του Κάμμινγκς είναι μία απαρακώλυτη, αυτεξούσια είδηση, παραπάνω απ' όσο περιμένει κανείς εγγυημένη. Ο Κάμμινγκς ήταν η φωνή από τα ερείπια της σύγκρουσης, ο τηλεβόας της πραγματικότητας που επινόησε η αδιάψευστη αλλοίωση. [...] (Από τον πρόλογο της έκδοσης)
[...] Οι επιλογές των ποιημάτων έγιναν από την έκδοση των απάντων του, "Complete Poems 1904-1962" (Liveright 1994), λαμβάνοντας υπόψη τις επιλογές ποιημάτων που έκανε ο ίδιος το 1960, για την έκδοση "Selected Poems" που κυκλοφόρησε στη σειρά "The Penguim Poets".
Η ποίηση του Κάμμινγκς είναι μία απαρακώλυτη, αυτεξούσια είδηση, παραπάνω απ' όσο περιμένει κανείς εγγυημένη. Ο Κάμμινγκς ήταν η φωνή από τα ερείπια της σύγκρουσης, ο τηλεβόας της πραγματικότητας που επινόησε η αδιάψευστη αλλοίωση. [...] (Από τον πρόλογο της έκδοσης)
- GenresPoetry
72 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2007
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About the author
E.E. Cummings
370 books3,953 followersEdward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894. He began writing poems as early as 1904 and studied Latin and Greek at the Cambridge Latin High School.
He received his BA in 1915 and his MA in 1916, both from Harvard University. His studies there introduced him to the poetry of avant-garde writers, such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound.
In 1917, Cummings published an early selection of poems in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets. The same year, Cummings left the United States for France as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I. Five months after his assignment, however, he and a friend were interned in a prison camp by the French authorities on suspicion of espionage (an experience recounted in his novel, The Enormous Room) for his outspoken anti-war convictions.
After the war, he settled into a life divided between houses in rural Connecticut and Greenwich Village, with frequent visits to Paris. He also traveled throughout Europe, meeting poets and artists, including Pablo Picasso, whose work he particularly admired.
In 1920, The Dial published seven poems by Cummings, including "Buffalo Bill ’s.” Serving as Cummings’ debut to a wider American audience, these “experiments” foreshadowed the synthetic cubist strategy Cummings would explore in the next few years.
In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. Later in his career, he was often criticized for settling into his signature style and not pressing his work toward further evolution. Nevertheless, he attained great popularity, especially among young readers, for the simplicity of his language, his playful mode and his attention to subjects such as war and sex.
The poet and critic Randall Jarrell once noted that Cummings is “one of the most individual poets who ever lived—and, though it sometimes seems so, it is not just his vices and exaggerations, the defects of his qualities, that make a writer popular. But, primarily, Mr. Cummings’s poems are loved because they are full of sentimentally, of sex, of more or less improper jokes, of elementary lyric insistence.”
During his lifetime, Cummings received a number of honors, including an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1958, and a Ford Foundation grant.
At the time of his death, September 3, 1962, he was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost. He is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
source: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-...
He received his BA in 1915 and his MA in 1916, both from Harvard University. His studies there introduced him to the poetry of avant-garde writers, such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound.
In 1917, Cummings published an early selection of poems in the anthology Eight Harvard Poets. The same year, Cummings left the United States for France as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I. Five months after his assignment, however, he and a friend were interned in a prison camp by the French authorities on suspicion of espionage (an experience recounted in his novel, The Enormous Room) for his outspoken anti-war convictions.
After the war, he settled into a life divided between houses in rural Connecticut and Greenwich Village, with frequent visits to Paris. He also traveled throughout Europe, meeting poets and artists, including Pablo Picasso, whose work he particularly admired.
In 1920, The Dial published seven poems by Cummings, including "Buffalo Bill ’s.” Serving as Cummings’ debut to a wider American audience, these “experiments” foreshadowed the synthetic cubist strategy Cummings would explore in the next few years.
In his work, Cummings experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression. Later in his career, he was often criticized for settling into his signature style and not pressing his work toward further evolution. Nevertheless, he attained great popularity, especially among young readers, for the simplicity of his language, his playful mode and his attention to subjects such as war and sex.
The poet and critic Randall Jarrell once noted that Cummings is “one of the most individual poets who ever lived—and, though it sometimes seems so, it is not just his vices and exaggerations, the defects of his qualities, that make a writer popular. But, primarily, Mr. Cummings’s poems are loved because they are full of sentimentally, of sex, of more or less improper jokes, of elementary lyric insistence.”
During his lifetime, Cummings received a number of honors, including an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1958, and a Ford Foundation grant.
At the time of his death, September 3, 1962, he was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost. He is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
source: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-...
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September 1, 2017
yes is a pleasant country:
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year
both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're)
I really don't know what to make of e. e. cummings' poetry. It is surrealistic at times and always peculiar, often ignoring basic grammar and punctuation rules (a type of writing which, for a grammar Nazi like me, is like a picnic in hell on a Monday morning), but surprisingly, I found myself enjoying reading these poems (often aloud), albeit sometimes not fully understanding them.
Spring, death and love are the main themes in this collection and I quite liked that.
3.5 stars for you, mister cummings.
You had me boggled, sir.
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year
both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're)
I really don't know what to make of e. e. cummings' poetry. It is surrealistic at times and always peculiar, often ignoring basic grammar and punctuation rules (a type of writing which, for a grammar Nazi like me, is like a picnic in hell on a Monday morning), but surprisingly, I found myself enjoying reading these poems (often aloud), albeit sometimes not fully understanding them.
Spring, death and love are the main themes in this collection and I quite liked that.
3.5 stars for you, mister cummings.
You had me boggled, sir.
February 4, 2023
Μου άρεσε, αν και πιστεύω είναι πως ενδείκνυται να διαβάσεις το έργο του, στην μητρική του γλώσσα κι όχι σε μετάφραση.
" (ένα φεγγάρι βγαίνει απ' ένα σύννεφο γλιστρώντας
ένα ρολόι χτυπά μεσάνυχτα
ένα δάχτυλο τη σκανδάλη τραβά
ένα πουλί μες στον καθρέφτη πετά)"
" (ένα φεγγάρι βγαίνει απ' ένα σύννεφο γλιστρώντας
ένα ρολόι χτυπά μεσάνυχτα
ένα δάχτυλο τη σκανδάλη τραβά
ένα πουλί μες στον καθρέφτη πετά)"
October 17, 2023
ανθρωπότητα σ' αγαπώ γιατί
συνέχεια βάζεις της ζωής το μυστικό
μες στα βρακιά σου
και το ξεχνάς
και κάθεσαι πάνω του
και σ' αγαπώ γιατί
συνέχεια φτιάχνεις ποιήματα
πάνω στου θανάτου τα γόνατα
ανθρωπότητα
σε μισώ.
https://katerinatoraki.blogspot.com/2...
συνέχεια βάζεις της ζωής το μυστικό
μες στα βρακιά σου
και το ξεχνάς
και κάθεσαι πάνω του
και σ' αγαπώ γιατί
συνέχεια φτιάχνεις ποιήματα
πάνω στου θανάτου τα γόνατα
ανθρωπότητα
σε μισώ.
https://katerinatoraki.blogspot.com/2...
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