100 Selected Poems - Scholar's Choice Edition (Paperback)

from BobVTReader

I bought this book in 1963. My high school American Literature Teacher turned me on to this book. Yesterday I was going for a walk, the temperature was pretty warm for Vermont and the snow and ice on the gravel road that I was walking on was melting. There was frost in the ground, however the sur...

from TheAlternativeOne

No one plays with words as well as cummings. He is imaginitive and intelligent and 100 Selected Poems proves it. Beware of those who call his poetry "verbal gimmicks." They have read the poetry but not felt it. For those who don't get it the answer is simple: read it again!

from frailgesture

For a reader of average intelligence, such as myself, there are going to be many poems here that are borderline nonsense, but when cummings comes through with something beautiful, he's one of those rare poets with the capacity to punch you in the face with language. "in your most frail gesture th...

from joewmyrtle

A good intro to Cummings if you still haven't grabbed a copy of the Complete. I'm ambiguous about the poems that play too much with parentheses and line breaks. But many of those, when carefully read, are tantalizing and brilliant. This collection includes the untitled poem which starts with "sin...

from rrriles

i fell absolutely in love with cummings' poetry in high school, and still find myself turning to a few dog-eared paged now and then. among other things, these hundred poems taught me that the rules punctuation and grammar need never be prescriptive nor boring.