CONTENTS
Academy of American Poets Nominations
for US Postage Stamps 6
Introduction 7
The Osmotic Mandala: On the
Nature
of Boundaries in E. E. Cummings' Poetry 9
Etienne Terblanche
Cummings' Dark Night: Symbolic Designs of Rise and Fall in the
Poetry
and Prose 23
Antonio Ruiz Sánchez
POEMS
An Analysis of Two Poems by E. E.
Cummings
31
Iain Landles
Appreciating Cummings' "(im)c-a-t(mo)" 44
John Pollock
I paint (my poems), therefore i am 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 118
Robert Headley
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