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[Artists are those] who have discovered (in a mirror surrounded with mirrors) something harder than silence but softer than falling, the third voice of "life" which believes itself and which cannot mean because it is.e. e. cummings, six non-lectures
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
e. e. cummings the painter
fourth-dimensional abstractionOil on canvasboard
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
e. e. cummings the painter
Flowers and Hat: Patchen Place, c. 1950, oil on canvas,
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
e. e. cummings the painter
lone figure and tree in stormy sunsetOil on canvas
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
e. e. cummings the painter
Self-portrait with sketchpad, 1939, oil on canvas,
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
cummings, “in Just-”
in Just-spring when the world is mud-luscious the little lame baloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddyandbill comerunning from marbles andpiracies and it’sspring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queerold baloonman whistlesfar and weeand bettyandisbel come dancing
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
cummings, “in Just-”
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it’sspringandthegoat-footed
baloonMan whistlefarandwee
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
cummings, “next to of course god america”
"next to of course god america Ilove you land of the pilgrims' and so forth ohsay can you see by the dawn's early mycountry tis of centuries come and goand are no more what of it we should worryin every language even deafanddumbthy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorryby jingo by gee by gosh by gumwhy talk of beauty what could be more beaut-iful than these heroic happy deadwho rushed like lions to the roaring slaughterthey did not stop to think they died insteadthen shall the voice of liberty be mute?”
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
cummings, “next to of course god america”
Boosterism
Oil City High School Rotarians, 1966-1967
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
cummings, “Buffalo Bill’s”
Buffalo Bill 'sdefunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallionand break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know ishow do you like your blueeyed boyMister Death?
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
cummings, “somewhere I have never travelled”
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose methough i have closed myself as fingers,you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i andmy life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,as when the heart of this flower imaginesthe snow carefully everywhere descending;
Hear cummings read it on youtube.ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery
cummings, “somewhere I have never travelled”
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equalsthe power of your intense fragility: whose texturecompels me with the color of its countries,rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens; only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
ENGL 2030—Fall 2013 | Lavery