e. e. cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 4th Order only to be captured by

only to be captured by the Japanese and held in one of their notorious POW camps

They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia

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tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity

and hopelessnessWhen you're healing from the past: getting out of a trauma response and learning how to stop ruminating about old events

e. e. cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 4th Order only to be captured byCombining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, E. E. Cummings, together with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth century revolution in literary expression. Today Cummings is recognized as the author of some of the most sensuous lyric poems in the English language, as well as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. Formally fractured and yet