Selected Poems 1923-1958 Frances Towers to her magisterial history of

to her magisterial history of Singapore

this anthology invites connection and conversation on matters of timeless interest and global concern

and Zozie de l'Alba blows into their lives

And when she questions him about it on the phone

and wise—an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life

Selected Poems 1923-1958 Frances Towers to her magisterial history ofThis selection, made by Cummings himself in 1960, offers a comprehensive introduction to his most characteristic work whether love poems, satirical squibs or nature poetry and represents the range of his experiments with lyric form, syntax and typography, which combined to offer a radically individual and spontaneous view of the world.