20 Books of Poetry Everyone Should Own
Verse to reach for on a lazy evening—or a difficult day: The poetry no reader's library should be without.
By Carmela Ciuraru
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E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904 -1962
By E.E. Cummings
1136 pages;
Liveright
Playful, radical experiments with spelling, syntax, and punctuation are Cummings's poetic signature. Less well known—his gift for erotic verse: "i like my body when it is with your / body."
— Carmela Ciuraru
Published 03/18/2011
