A paperback collection newly offset from
Complete Poems 1904-1962
with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.
Cummings's ninth book of poems,
One Times One
, was first published in 1944. The poems in
have as their theme "oneness and the means (one times one) whereby that oneness is achieved—love," in the words of Cummings's biographer Richard S. Kennedy. Besides new expressions of universal concerns, Cummings writes here in a lyric and optimistic mode, drawing portraits of people dear to him in New Hampshire and New York City's Greenwich Village. This new edition joins other individual uniform Liveright paperback volumes drawn from the
Complete Poems
, most recently
Etcetera
and
22
50 Poems
.