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Websites

E. E. Cummings Society

Take a tour of the website of this group dedicated to Cummings and all his awesomeness.

Poetry Foundation

The great Cummings bio that this link takes you to is only the tip of the iceberg for this site, which is packed with awesome information on poets and their poems.

Video

Jack Palance on E.E. Cummings

Yes, you read that right. This is a bit too awesome for words.

"r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r"

This is a pretty cool visual interpretation of another of Cummings's poems.

Audio

Out Loud

Some dude who likes to post recordings of himself reading poems on YouTube does it here. We kid, but he's good.

Musical Backing

Dig this version of the poem, with musical accompaniment.

Images

The Man Himself

Here's a picture of our poet.

Self Portrait

Yeah, he was an artist too. This is what he thought he looked like.

Lookin' Good, E. E.

We asked him if we could borrow this outfit, but he said no.

Articles and Interviews

Cummings Interviews Himself

Not only is this "interview" a riot, it's also a good look into Cummings's opinions about the ways that, in the end, poetry, art and life are all really the same thing.

Cummings: Rebel with a Cause

Check out this great biographical article on Cummings from Harvard Magazine.

Books

50 Poems

Make sure to check out the collection that the poem was originally published in. (Man, couldn't Cummings have come up with a more creative title?)

Movies & TV

Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (1967)

Star Wars fans, take note! George Lucas once directed a movie based upon a Cummings poem.