SPRING
NEW SERIES NUMBER 13 (October 2004)
CONTENTS
Introduction / About the Cover 5
The Editors
Michael Webster
Susan Petit
MASKS
Cummings the Performer
18
Millie Kidd
The Enormous Room as Spiritual Autobiography:
A Puritan Context for the Text
27
W. Todd Martin
CUMMINGS & OTHERS
E. E. Cummings and Wallace Stevens:
Glen MacLeod
The Pragmatism of “anyone”
49
Paul Headrick
THREE POETS
Gerald Locklin, Tricia
Cherin,
58
Christopher Mulrooney
TECHNIQUE(S) & MEANING(S)
The Importance of Technical Innovation
in the Poetic Maturation
of Cummings
74
Bob Grumman
Exercises in Meaning and Unmeaning 90
Michael Webster
Translated from the Cummings 104
Jacques Demarcq
MORE POEMS
John Tagliabue, Steven
Thomas Roberts, 111
Robert Dorsett, Ken Carstens,
Henry Denander
(RE)ENCOUNTERS
Introduction to the Fourth Edition of EIMI 121
Norman Friedman
E. E. Cummings’ Fluid Objectivity:
A Deep Ecological Response
to Michael Webster’s
“The New Nature Poetry and
the Old” 128
Etienne Terblanche
REVIEWS
Two Reviews of Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno’s
E. E. Cummings: A Biography. 143
Iain Landles and Michael
Webster
CALL FOR PAPERS. Words Into
Pictures:
E.
Jirí Flajšar and Zénó
Vernyik
NEWS, NOTES, & CORRESPONDENCE 156
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