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Gr 7-Up Reef has penned an engaging and informative chronicle of the life of this talented and unconventional artist. Each chapter is packed with details of cummings's life and work, all carefully documented with source notes. Period photos and reproductions, including a number of cummings'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts (a town dedicated to the adulation of Longfellow and Lowell), may have led Edward Estlin Cummings to rebel, but Reef makes it clear that the king of experimental poetry was deeply grounded in the very structure he subverted. At the Latin School and later Harvard, he studied with famous scholars, all the while supported by a stable, loving family throughout a life of personal, professional, and political challenges. Reef explores the dynamic interaction of events and poetry to portray...Log In or Sign Up to Read More