Tom is a ballet scenario based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Published by Arrow Editions in 1935, the book consists of Cummings' "synopsis" (pp. 7-9) and his description of the four episodes of the ballet (pp. 10-37). The frontispiece is by Ben Shahn. Though David Diamond wrote the music for it, the ballet has never been performed. Richard S. Kennedy tells the story of the ballet's inception, scoring, and non-performance in chapter 15 of Dreams in the Mirror. The ballet is currently out of print, but it was re-published in Three Plays and A Ballet (ed. George J. Firmage, New York: October House, 1967).

Bibliography, Discography

• Cummings, E. E. Tom. New York: Arrow Editions, 1935.
• ---. Three Plays and A Ballet. Ed. George J. Firmage. New York: October House, 1967. [Contains the plays Him, Anthropos, Santa Claus, and the ballet Tom.]
• Diamond, David. Symphony Number 8, Suite from the Ballet Tom, This Sacred Ground. Seattle Sumphony Orchestra, cond. Gerard Schwarz. Delos, 1994. This CD is not currently listed in the Delos on-line catalog, but it may be available from Amazon.com.
• Friedman, Norman. "Anthropos (1930), No Title (1930), Tom (1935)." E. E. Cummings: The Growth of a Writer. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1964. 102-108.
• Kennedy, Richard S. "The Undanced Tom." Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E. E. Cummings. New York: Liveright, 1980. 371-377.

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