Tulips & Chimneys

With his 1923 debut, 25-year-old poet e. e. cummings took an avant-garde approach to the traditional subjects of love, life, time, and beauty. His playful treatment of punctuation and language adds enduring zest to such popular and oft-anthologized poems as All in green went my love riding,
in Just-,
Tumbling-hair,
O sweet spontaneous,
Buffalo Bill’s, and the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls.
AUTHOR: Poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894 1962), a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Harvard University graduate, is best known for his rejection of traditional forms. As e. e. cummings he conducted radical experiments with form, spelling, syntax, and punctuation that endeared him to poetry lovers of all ages.