SPRING 17 (2010) Contents 
Introduction/About the Cover
The Editors
Aphoristic EEC: Jottings
The Tiny Room: The Jottings of E. E. Cummings
Michael Dylan Welch
E. E. Cummings’ “Jottings” and José Garcia Villa’s
“Xocerisms”—Invoking Lyricism in Creating the Poetic Aphorism
John Edwin Cowen
Cummings Creates
The Stuff of Expression: Interpreting Cummings’ Creative Thought through
Steven Pinker’s Mentalese
Adam C. Vander Tuig
An Imaginary Dialogue Between An Author And A
Public, printed on the book-jacket of my first play
E. E. Cummings
Program Note for Him
E. E. Cummings
Explication of “An Imaginary Dialogue,” the Dust
Jacket Blurb for Him
E. E. Cummings
“almost all I don’t know about art”: E.E. Cummings
Explicates His Dust Jacket Blurb for Him
Michael Webster
Poems
Jim Glaser, Geoffrey Craig, Luke Maguire Armstrong, and E.M. Schorb
Teaching Cummings
The Bonus Question
Drew Lankford
Learning to Live in “a pretty how town”
Rai Peterson
“Is” as an Action Verb: Cummings and the Act of Being
W. Todd Martin
Time and Form: Teaching E. E. Cummings
Richard D. Cureton
Notes for Cummings: A Resource for Students and
Teachers
Michael Webster
More Poems
Ken Carstens, Rebecca Lilly, Mark Jenkins,
Richard Lighthouse, Henry Sosnowski, Wayne Daniel, Thomas Dorsett,
Jeremy Halinen, and Michael Dylan Welch
War and the Underclass
“Wristers Etcetera”: Cummings, the Great War, and Discursive Struggle
Tim Dayton
E. E. Cummings and the Under Classes: The Enormous Room
Millie Kidd
Review
A Review of Iain Landles’ The Case for
Cummings (VDM, 2008)
Aaron Moe
News, Notes & Correspondence
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