SPRINGcover spring 6

New Series, Number 6

1997



CONTENTS

Introduction

Our Trip to Silver Lake, p. 6
    Norman Friedman and David V. Forrest, M.D.
    Photographs by Bernard Stehle and David V. Forrest, M.D.

Letters from the Cummingses to Ruth Shackford, p. 18
     Norman Friedman

A Note on Cummings and My Family at Silver Lake  p. 22
     Margaret Foerster

Nobody-But-Himself  p. 26
     Carol L. Batchelder

The Sight of Sound: Cummings’ “oil tel duh woil doi sez”  p. 45
     Larry Chott

Two Portraits by E. E. Cummings:
Jimmy Savo in Poem and Painting p. 49
     John T. Ordeman

Sex on Wheels: A Reading of “she being Brand / -new”  p. 55
     Lewis H. Miller, Jr.

The Political Cummings: Iconoclast or Solipsist?  p. 70
     Milton A. Cohen

Occasional Cummings  p. 81
    Michael Dylan Welch

Adolescents Ignored: Perspectives on Teaching Cummings  p. 94
     Audri L. Wood



Poems
Michael Dylan Welch   “Nine Waterfall Poems” p. 106
         “Permutation Poem”  p. 107
         “Breaking Fences” p. 108

John Pollock    “in Just: this”  p. 109

J. A. Gilbert    “socks (a dialogue)”  p. 110

 Richard Kostelanetz    Two Circular Poems p. 111

Jacque Vaught Brogan    “Notes from the Body—” p. 112
         “Notes from the Body—(iv)” p. 114

 Gayl Teller     “One Small Kindness” p. 116
         “Moving Day” p. 117

Celestine Liu     “Goldengrove Unleaving” p. 118

 Robert Dorsett     “A Slow Rhythm to Strip By”  p. 120

 James Nicosia    “Ice Cream Man”  p. 121

 Joe E. Kirk     “No Baby, Unloving Zeus”  p. 122



Jean Starr Untermeyer: A Memoir  p. 123
     Aaron Kramer

“B” [William Slater Brown]  p. 128
    James Lincoln Collier

Meter in Cummings’ “Free” Verse  p. 153
    Rai Peterson

The AM of Silence in Cummings’ Later Poems  p. 166
    Kurt W. Harris



Annotated Bibliography
of E. E. Cummings Scholarship: 1985–1993 p.  175
    Kurt W. Harris

For the Record  p. 187


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