This now classic edition of selected poems by the American painter, poet, and writer E. E. Cummings was first published in 1958, later revised and expanded, most recently in 1994, and has sold over 15,000 copies - almost a paradoxical result for a poet who claimed his poems were not for "most people," as he referred to them in his characteristic word combinations. Cummings has infinitely expanded and enriched the lyrical language of American literature with his wordplay and typographical experiments, his delight in provocation and confrontation, in eroticism and urbanity, existential risk, and creatureliness. His poems are playful and powerful at the same time, intelligent and humorous, catchy and erotic - and always ripe for rediscovery.