E.E Cummings

I have recently bought a book on E.E Cumming recommended to me by a classmate Anna-karin


Here is one of the poems I enjoyed. The way the words are placed on the page forms a picture or enhances the words to project their meaning.




it's jolly
odd what pops into
your jolly tête when the 
jolly shells begin dropping jolly fast you
hear the rrmp and 
then nearerandnearerandNEARER
and before
you can


!


& we're


NOT
(oh----
---i say


that's jolly odd
old thing,jolly
odd,jolly
jolly odd isn't
it jolly odd.


(p.94 Another E.E Cummings edited by richard kostelanetz)