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The enormous room / E.E. Cummings ; a typescript edition with drawings by the author ; introduction by Susan Cheever ; edited, with a note on The Enormous Room, by George James Firmage ; afterword by Richard S. Kennedy.

by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014.

940.4 C971e 2014

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American

World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, French

Soldiers -- United States -- Biography

9780871409287 (pbk.)

xx, 392 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

First published in 1922.

The most notable work of fiction from our most beloved modernist poet, The Enormous Room was one of the greatest--yet still not fully recognized--American literary works to emerge out of World War I. Drawing on E. E. Cummings’s experiences in France as a volunteer ambulance driver, this novel takes us through a series of mishaps that led to the poet’s being arrested for treason and imprisoned. Out of this trauma Cummings produced a work like no other--a story of oppression and injustice told with his characteristic linguistic energy and unflappable exuberance, which celebrates the spirit of the individual and offers a brave and brilliant opposition in the face of the inhumanity of war. Illustrated with drawings Cummings made while imprisoned in France and featuring an illuminating new introduction by Susan Cheever, this reissued edition offers a unique and multifaceted lens onto the inner life of the poet in his youth and demands recognition by a twenty-first-century readership."--From publisher.

Firmage, George James.

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