{"product_id":"no-thanks-9780871401724","title":"No Thanks","description":"E. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. Fresh and candid, by turns earthy, tender, defiant, and romantic, Cummings's poems celebrate the uniqueness of each individual, the need to protest the dehumanizing force of organizations, and the exuberant power of love. \u003cem\u003eNo Thanks\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1935; although Cummings was by then in mid-career, he had still not achieved recognition, and the title refers ironically to publishers' rejections. \u003cem\u003eNo Thanks\u003c\/em\u003e contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life--romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations. The volume includes such favorites as \"sonnet entitled how to run the world),\" \"may I feel said he,\" \"Jehovah buried. Satan dead,\" \"be of love (a little),\" and the now-famous grasshopper poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCummings, E. E.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eE. E. Cummings\u003c\/strong\u003e (1894-1962) was among the most influential, widely read, and revered modernist poets. He was also a playwright, a painter, and a writer of prose. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard University and, during World War I, served with an ambulance corps in France. He spent three months in a French detention camp and subsequently wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Enormous Room\u003c\/em\u003e, a highly acclaimed criticism of World War I. After the war, Cummings returned to the States and published his first collection of poetry, \u003cem\u003eTulips \u0026amp; Chimneys\u003c\/em\u003e, which was characterized by his innovative style: pushing the boundaries of language and form while discussing love, nature, and war with sensuousness and glee. He spent the rest of his life painting, writing poetry, and enjoying widespread popularity and success.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330140606738,"sku":"9780871401724","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_522c0da0-f4c4-4c97-8957-471e2e2f5902.jpg?v=1727793127","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-thanks-9780871401724","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}