Lyrical verses span the career of a twentieth-century American poet, and illuminate his concern for the future of humanity

Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.

Twentieth-century American poet E. E. Cummings's last collection of new poems published in his lifetime, which presents his views on nature and shows his interest in everyday people.

This book, which first appeared in 1950, contains some of E.E. Cummings' finest work.

A biography of the twentieth-century American writer whose poetry combined artistic composition with word play and traditional rhyme and meter. Includes examples of his work.