CONTENTS
About the Cover 5Academy of American Poets Nominations
for US Postage Stamps 6
Introduction 7
THEMESThe Osmotic Mandala: On the Nature of Boundaries
in E. E. Cummings' Poetry
9
Etienne Terblanche
POEMS
An Analysis of Two Poems by E. E. Cummings
[Analyzes “in Just-” (31-37) and “l(a” (37-43).]
31
Iain Landles
Appreciating Cummings' "(im)c-a-t(mo)"
44
John Pollock
I paint (my poems), therefore i am: The Visibility
of Language and Its Epistemological Implications for the ‘i’ in E.E. Cummings’
Poetry 48
Gudrun Grabher
My Tribute to E. E.: Five Poems
58
Jessica J. Vanden Berg
Four Suites
65
John Tagliabue
missing mr u (not)
70
Philip Gerber
Doveglion: The E. E. Cummings / José Garcia
Villa Connection 102
John Edwin Cowen
CUMMINGS INTO JAPANESE
"& sun &"
110
Yasuo Fujitomi
THE GERALD LOCKLIN ALA PANEL
Wish They All Could Be California Writers
112
John Michael Brantingham and Mike Haven
The Toad's Wild Ride Continues: The Literary Art of Gerald Locklin From
the 1990's
Robert Headley
118
Gerald Locklin: The Hobgoblin of American Poetry
122
Michael Basinski
Locklin, The Beats, and Bukowski
128
Norman Friedman
Interview with Gerald Locklin 12-23-00
138
Tricia Cherin
Three by Tony Quagliano
143
Five by Thomas Dorsett
145
Five by George Held
150
Three by Tricia Cherin
153
Modernism, Cummings' Meta-Sonnets, and Chimneys
155
Gillian Huang-Tiller
Use, Disuse, and Abuse of Capitals in is 5
173
Cécile Cormier
E. E. Cummings' "Melopoetics"
185
Martina Antretter
POEMS
Keith Mahone, E. M. Schorb, Travis Chaney,
and Henry J. Tokarski
198
REVIEW
Richard Kostelanetz and John Rocco, eds., AnOther E. E. Cummings
200
Taimi Olsen
News, Notes, and Correspondence 203
SPRING Contents Index