Selected Poems 1923-1958 Frances Towers and Zozie de l'Alba blows

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Selected Poems 1923-1958 Frances Towers and Zozie de l'Alba blowsThis selection, made by Cummings himself in 1960, offers a comprehensive introduction to his most characteristic work whether love poems, satirical squibs or nature poetry and represents the range of his experiments with lyric form, syntax and typography, which combined to offer a radically individual and spontaneous view of the world.