NEW SERIES NUMBER 8 (October 1999)
ABOUT THE COVER (photograph of Joe Gould)
Bernard F. Stehle 6
INTRODUCTION
FROM THE PODIUM
E.E. Cummings: A
Centennial Panel Discusssion 18
David Diamond, Leslie A. Fiedler, Richard S. Kennedy, and
Grace Schulman, moderated by Norman Friedman
Editor’s Postscript
A Pair of Krazy
Kats: Cummings and George Herriman’s
Comic Strip, A Psycholiteray Appreciation 50
David V. Forrest, M.D.
Interdependence versus
Transcendence 58
Norman Friedman
OTHER LANGUAGES
Cummings Into German: Seven Poems
Gudrun M. Grabher, et al. 62
Some Notes on Classical
Meter, Technique, and Cummings’ Innovations in 1
x 1
Robert Dorsett 71
(Re)Valuing "anyone"
John M. Gill 78
The Symbol of Rain in Cummings’
Poetry
Thierry Gillyboeuf 87
"Metaphors Copulate in Laughter":
Humor in Cummings’ Poetry
Claudia Desblaches 95
OUR FEATURED POET
Five Poems: The Play of Form
Jacqueline Vaught Brogan 106
TWO VIEWS OF BUFFALO
BOB
(with thanks to Complete 90)
"buffalo bob"
Gerald Locklin 112
Buffalo bob’s"
Michael P. Webster 113
Trains to Moscow: Lewis Carroll’s Russian Journal and Cummings’ EIMI
Michael Dylan Welch 114
E1MI and Lewis Aragon’s The Adventures of
Telemachus
Rajeev Kumar Kinra 122
Frank Ryan, "e e at the playground"
130
Howard M. Chenfeld, "After the Rain"
131
Michael Dylan Welch, "under" 132
Glenn Charles Ikens, "No Nots"
133
Jack Shadoian, "Self-Manicure"
134
Tony Quagliano, "The Night I Let Bukowski
Live
(For Neeli Cherry)" (Postscript) 135
Alan Yount, "Endings: For Alan Jones"
137
George Held, "Lit’ry Cinqauins"
138
David R. Tiliman, "fall leaf" 139
Aaron Bell, "Epiphany" 140
Robert Dorsett, "from Yourcenar" 141
Sedrick A. Goldbeck, "My My Mister
Cum..." 142
Rufus Goodwin, ‘The Stars Believe"
143
William Jeffery Miles, "Smothered in"
144
Thierry Gillyboeuf, "the faithful
sun" 145
The Weight of Tradition: Adynata and the
‘World
Upside Down" in the Poetry of Cummings
Antonio Ruiz 146
Post-Structuralist Cummings
Iain Landles 161
Review of Friedman’s (Re) Valuing Cummings
and Heusser’s I Am My Writing
Michael P. Webster 171
Editor’s Postcript 177
Review of "E.E.!", the
Blue Heron Theatre
David V. Forrest, M.D. 179
CORRESPONDENCE 182
FOR THE RECORD 185