[New-Poetry] cummings and goings

[jforjames at aol.com]

"Money was a never-ending preoccupation, and there rarely was enough of it. His "extreme self-centeredness" led, not surprisingly, to a powerful sense of entitlement, so he took as a matter of course the support he received from his parents, his wives (there were three of them) and various benefactors, some of whom were astonishingly generous."

This from a review of an EE Cummings biography...no deep pockets in the family but was blessed by generous parents, spouses?and friends.



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Cummings' dad taught sociology at Harvard. Lots of money in that
I've heard, but maybe it was old money.




I heard him read once, back when I was an undergrad. Very dramatic!

Dark auditorium, Cummings sitting, strangely costumed, at a table

in a single spot, read . . . no intoned . . . his poems. Tenor range voice.

Quite impressive. And memorable.




Hal





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On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:23 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:


I seem to remember that Cummings, like Hart Crane, had familly money. So he didn't really need to work, whatever the fortunes of his poetry.
Finnegan

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I'd add that some poets could make it their day job but enjoy having another more munificent related one, like teaching. Frost, could surely have lived off his earnings as a poet had he wanted to. Seems to me Cummings did. If not, I don't know what he did for a living.?
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I wonder, too, if teaching poetry should count as a day job for poets.?
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--Bob G.?
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