Michael Webster

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"Audio Cummings." EEC Society Blog (21 Aug. 2015). Web.

"Estlin Cummings, 'Animal Emperor' and Wild West Impresario." EEC Society Blog (4 Aug. 2015). Web.

"Cummings Rewrites Eliot." T. S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe. Ed. Jayme Stayer. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 75-91.

"Plotting the Evolution of a r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 20 (2013): 116-143.

Review of Etienne Terblanche, E. E. Cummings: Poetry and Ecology (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012). Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 20 (2013): 167-171.

"E. E. Cummings." A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Ed. David Chinitz and Gail McDonald. Chichester, U.K. / Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 494-504.

"Lugete: The Divine Lost and Found Child in Cummings." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 19 (2012): 37-49. Print and Web.

"Three Memorials: Rushworth M. Kidder, John Edwin Cowen, and Robert Wegner," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 19 (2012): 8-16.

"Pound Teaching Cummings, Cummings Teaching Pound." Ezra Pound and Education. Eds. Steven Yao and Michael Coyle. Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 2012. 47-66.
 
" 'almost all I don’t know about art': E .E. Cummings Explicates His Dust Jacket Blurb for Him." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 17 (2010): 44-57.

"Notes for Cummings: A Resource for Students and Teachers." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 17 (2010): 96-105.

"Cummings’s Silent Numerical Iconic Prosody." Media inter Media: Essays in Honor of Claus Clüver. Ed. Stephanie Glaser. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 423-438. 

Review of Isabelle Alfandary's E. E. Cummings, ou la minuscule lyrique in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 16 (2007): 176-181.

"The Enormous Room: A Dada of One’s Own." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 14-15 (2005-2006): 127-140.

"A Memorial: Nancy T. Andrews, Daughter of E. E. Cummings." Spring 14-15 (2005-2006): 260-268.

[Co-authored with Etienne Terblanche] “Eco-Iconicity in the Poetry and Poem-groups of E. E. Cummings.” Insistent Images: Iconicity in Language and Literature 5. Eds. Elzbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg, and Olga Fischer. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2007. 155-172.

"Three Memorials." [George James Firmage, Philip L. Gerber, and John M. (Jack) Gill] Spring 13 (2004): 8-13.
 
“Cummings’ Sinister Dexterity: Exercises in Meaning and Unmeaning,” Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 13 (2004): 90-103.

Review of Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno’s E. E. Cummings: A Biography in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 13 (2004): 147-153.

"'floating particles of paper': E. E. Cummings' Collage Poems," Cahiers Charles V 34 (September 2003): 51-73. [Collage / Montage / Assemblage: Poésie Anglaise et Américaine. Ed. Paul Volsik]

"Poemgroups in No Thanks," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 11 (2002): 10-40.

"'le chant est le silence': Être et Néant dans la Poésie Visuelle de E. E. Cummings." Trans. Thierry Gillyboeuf. Plein Chant 74-74 (Winter-Spring 2002): 151-167. [Translation of "singing is silence"]

"Magic Iconism: Defamiliarization, Sympathetic Magic, and Visual Poetry (Apollinaire and Cummings)." European Journal of English Studies 5.1 (2001): 97-113. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/ejes.5.1.97.4781

"E. E. Cummings: The New Nature Poetry and the Old," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 9 (2000): 109-124.

Review of Martin Heusser's I Am My Writing and Norman Friedman's (Re) Valuing Cummings in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 8 (1999): 171-78.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:
“Proto-Concrete Ventures in the Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Gardes.” Concrete Poetry: An International Perspective. Ed. Claus Clüver. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2015.

"The 'small eye poet' from Imagism to 'not numerable whom'." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 21-22 (2014-2015)
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