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*Starred Review* Cheever, the author of discerning books about writers, alcoholism, and problematic sexuality, begins this dramatic portrait of modernist poet E. E. Cummings, of “when the world is mud- / luscious” fame, with her memories of Cummings performing one of his famed readings and of listening intently in the backseat as her father, fiction writer John Cheever, drove the poet, his good friend, back to Greenwich Village. This intimacy shapes her telling of the up-and-down story of this unlikely rebel––a handsome, “flexible and slight,” rigorously educated “Harvard aristocrat” who discovered “a kind of poetic sweet spot” of scintillating innovation and complex lyric power. Cheever analyzes Cummings’ subterranean anger, anti-Semitism, excessive carousing, and flagrant antiauthoritarianism in France after enlisting during WWI, which landed him in a camp for “undesirables.” Cheever incisively dissects Cummings’ two disastrous marriages and the shocking abduction of his adored only child, Nancy Thayer, who became an artist and poet unaware of who her father actually was. With Ezra Pound as friend and mentor, Cummings deftly created “wild, expressive syntax” and wielded his signature lower-case “i” as critical response ran hot and cold, and ardent fans left flowers on his doorstep. Cheever’s reconsideration of Cummings and his work charms, rattles, and enlightens in emulation of Cummings’ radically disarming, tender, sexy, plangent, and furious poems. --Donna Seaman
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Praise for Susan Cheever’s
E.E. CUMMINGS
“Blending biography, memoir and cultural history – among her favored genres – Cheever offers not a definitive scholarly work but a textured inspection of some of the more intriguing faces of the multifaceted Cummings…we get a tightly focused image of Cummings, an image comprising evocative words that occasionally drip Susan Cheever’s heart’s blood.”
-Daniel Dyer, Cleveland Plain Dealer
“She generously and lusciously quotes from his exuberant poetry throughout the book, and takes the time to discuss in depth a number of pieces. E.E. Cummings: A Life isn't the first biography of the poet, but it may be the most charming and heartfelt--a thoroughly enjoyable appreciation. An ideal, unpretentious and welcoming biography for those interested in learning more about a great poet too often remembered for his rejection of capital letters than his verse.”
-Tom Lavoie, Shelf Awareness
“Cheever’s biography stands as a welcomed introductory attempt to understand Cummings’s impact, and it is even one of the best efforts to situate a Modernist inside the larger historical context.”
-Charles Shafaieh, Daily Beast
“Cheever burrows with credibility, exposing Cummings’ actual life, actual unfiltered activities, and from this reveals his motivations and, finally, his world view…She establishes a golden age of poetry with Cummings at its center…Cheever becomes our guide through Cummings’ styles of life and art…She shows remarkable objectivity, which is critical in honest reportage, and her personal skills are beautifully developed and make for delightful reading…With care and responsibility, Cheever gives us a comprehensive view of a man with interesting problems whom we only thought we knew.”
-Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books
“Cheever incisively dissects Cummings’ two disastrous marriages and the shocking abduction of his adored only child, Nancy Thayer, who became an artist and poet unaware of who her father actually was… Cheever’s reconsideration of Cummings and his work charms, rattles, and enlightens in emulation of Cummings’ radically disarming, tender, sexy, plangent, and furious poems.”
-Booklist (Starred Review)
“Drawing on letters, archival material and several more comprehensive biographies, Cheever distills the major events of Cummings’ life… This sympathetic life may win Cummings a new generation of readers.”
—Kirkus
“Affecting…brilliant…Ms. Cheever is the kind of biographer who can maintain both an intimacy and dispassionate relationship with her subject...deeply satisfying.”
-Norman Powers, New York Journal of Books
“Cheever rends excellent dramatic scenes out of climactic moments.”
-Publisher’s Weekly
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