E. E. Cummings
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Nov 2, 2026
Adam Scott GlasspoolHOST
She's repeated something that she did on Vespertine, which is that she didn't write these lyrics.
Adam Scott GlasspoolHOST
It's a poem by E.E. Cummings.
Adam Scott GlasspoolHOST
Did exactly the same thing from exactly the same poet on Vespertine.
Adam Scott GlasspoolHOST
This one was called It May Not Always Be So, And I Say.
PhilHOST
Um, like that might be your jam or you might love the flowery esoteric language of like an Octavio pause or like something like that, like just very in the cloud.
PhilHOST
So you might need something like very abstract, like thinking like E Cummings or something like very like base, like form based and like written on a scroll.
PhilHOST
It's a matter of exploring and figuring out, well, what do I like? And you're talking about the writing of it on the writing side.
PhilHOST
It can be intimidating to get into because you're thinking, well, this isn't poetry, or this isn't poetry, or this isn't good.
Paul FryHOST
In other words, it is always probably the case that when I speak I won't choose just any word.
Paul FryHOST
E.E. Cummings actually boldly experimented with this principle, and he attracted the attention of the linguists, particularly a linguist named Del Himes.
Paul FryHOST
E.E. Cummings wrote sentences like, He danced his did where did is obviously not a word you would have supposed to be in any way involved in an associational cluster in language.
Paul FryHOST
He danced his did.
Paul FryHOST
That is in every sense a misfire, as one school of thinking about language would call it, and yet at the same time,
GracePANELIST
The Moon from the Porch, I think, was earlier.
GracePANELIST
And then we read 100 Poems by E, 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings.
EphraimHOST
And the entire work of Edgar Allan Poe.
EphraimHOST
Which no one read.
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GracePANELIST
Yeah, he's thinking a lot about like the passage of time and things like that.
speaker_3PANELIST
I loved
TanyaPANELIST
the way this one flows I don't know about you guys but I found myself like reading to an empty apartment or to my cats out loud it felt pretty silly for a couple of lines but then it kind of goes away and it's just it flows so well it's so beautiful and I like poems like this that have like a rhyme where you can tell they like put a bit of effort in like I don't see the point of a poem that's not poetic Cummings
ReggiePANELIST
what about ones that don't even stay on the same line oh my god oh god
ThomasHOST
Bills Defunct, who used to ride a water-smooth silver stallion.
ThomasHOST
Did you guys get that Buffalo Bills Defunct? It's an E Cummings point.
KenHOST
No, I did not.
ThomasHOST
Oh.
Micah FrazierHOST
Lillian Gish, 1893, silent film actress best known for her role in Birth of a Nation.
Micah FrazierHOST
E.E. Cummings.
Micah FrazierHOST
I mean, do you really need the E-Double-E Cummings? Like, E.E.
Micah FrazierHOST
Cumming, come on now.
Oran JacksonHOST
No.
Oran JacksonHOST
Mm.
Micah FrazierHOST
Just stick with one E.
Micah FrazierHOST
Tell us your name, E.E. Like, we have Easy-E. That's who, that's who we acknowledge.
Gavin WhiteheadHOST
Right
Isaac ButlerGUEST
... reading EE Cummings.
Isaac ButlerGUEST
I'm trying to think of other specific people she ob- objected to.
Isaac ButlerGUEST
You know, didn't want them reading James Baldwin, you know, because he talks about his father's rage at white people, you know, stuff like that.
DM RiceGUEST
I have all of the, um, the work typed out, but I haven't formatted it yet.
DM RiceGUEST
I- because it's formatted it in the, uh, formatted in this kind of E. Cummings-esque discordant, um, uh, I don't know what you would call it.
DM RiceGUEST
Word jumble.
Jake HargroveHOST
Mm-hmm.
Howard LovyHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Howard LovyHOST
Well, I don't know if you, you know, I would tell EE Cummings to use capital letters, so that's, you know-
Anna DavidsonGUEST
[laughs]
Howard LovyHOST
... that's where I'm coming from.
Brandon LightlyGUEST
And then, "Pity this busy monster, mankind not.
Brandon LightlyGUEST
Progress is a comfortable disease," E.E. Cummings.
Brandon LightlyGUEST
And we start off in the book with the introduction and an anecdote about Norman Mailer talking about the assassinations of the '60s and the '70s.
Brandon LightlyGUEST
Then he goes through Challenger explosion, and we get this line: "Resignation haunts our present civilization.