SPRING

1996

Introduction, p. 6

IN MEMORIAM—MARION MOREHOUSE CUMMINGS, 1906-1969

The Elusive Marion Morehouse 8
    Richard S. Kennedy
Memories of Marion 19
    Maryette Charlton
Marion Remembered 36
    David V. Forrest, M.D.
The Passing of Cummings and Marion 38
    Yasuo Fufitomi

"Not 'e. e. cummings'" Revisited p. 41
    Norman Friedman

A Sheaf of Poems 44
    John Tagliabue

Joseph made Mary 51
Hemingway and Cummings 53
Where are the Yeggs of Yesteryear? 55
A Visit with E. E. Cummings—Reflections and Impressions 59
    Robert E.Wegner

A Garland for E. E. Cummings 71
    Ethan Lewis
Cummings’ Challenge to Academic Standards 78
    David Chinitz
E. E. Cummings’ Lyricism Today 82
    John Edwin Cowen

Seven Poems 90
    Gerald Locklin

A Variant Text of Cummings’"nothing is more exactly terrible than" 101
    Kurt W Hams
A Study of Two Poems: "since feeling is first" and "in time of daffodils(who know" 105
    John M. Gill
The Enormous Room: Cummings’ Reinterpretation of John Bunyan’s Doubting Castle 112
    W. Todd Martin

 Tony Quagliano: "Ivy Manoa" 120
 Deborah Zerden: "Spectator" 121
 John Wilson: "Tania" 122
 Alan Yount: "The Lines on the Back of the Hand" 123
 Daniel R. Barnes: "Overnight Case" 124
 Frank Ryan: "My Mother Prayed to Monks and Clowns’ 126
 Aaron Kramer: "Fortune Cookie" 127
 Tom C. Hunley: "A Cantaloupe Told Him" 128
 Oscar Bearinger: "Too Far From Poetry" 130
 Sharon Shepherd: "e." 131
 George Held: "How Dad Died" 132
 Aaron Bell: "Sonnet" 133
 Arthur Lerner: "E. E. Cummings Meets Walt Whitman" 134
Dorothy Mattson Saychek: "Nobody Knows Where Truth Goes" . 137

Poetry in Performance: Scotti and Cummings 161
    Rufus Goodwin
Performing Cummings’ Poetry 169
    Gary Goodrow
Reviews of Him and the Chicago Centennial Celebration 171
    David V. Forrest, M.D.

For the Record  p. 174

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