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:
Kinship and Rivalry
36
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
Cummings’ Sinister Dexterity:
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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