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Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), son of Edward Cummings and Rebecca Haswell Clarke, was brought up in a conservative Cambridge, Massachusetts home. His father, with degrees in both philosophy and divinity, taught at Harvard University until 1900 when he received ordination by the Unitarian Church and became a pastor at the South Congregational Church of Boston.According to family diaries, Cummings wanted to be a poet from an early age. He was supported in this ambition by his mother who made up word games and other activities to encourage his creativity. Cummings also drew prolifically, and his childhood drawings were often inspired by literature; his drawings included storyboards. Cummings attended public schools, including the Cambridge High and Latin School, prior to entering Harvard in 1911. While there, he concentrated in the classics, including Latin and Greek literature, and he mastered the various forms of poetry, gaining the foundation he needed in order to begin the experimentation with poetic form and shape that became his trademark.While at Harvard, Cummings published poetry in the Harvard Monthly and the Harvard Advocate. Through these organizations he became acquainted with S. Foster Damon, Stewart Mitchell, John Dos Passos, Scofield Thayer, and J. Sibley Watson. These friends would encourage and support Cummings through much of his artistic career; many of them also shared his interest in the visual arts as well as poetry and literature. Damon, a music student, introduced Cummings to the works of El Greco, William Blake, Paul Cézanne, James McNeill Whistler, the French Impressionists, and the Fauves. Through Thayer, Cummings became acquainted with the works of Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Aubrey Beardsley, the Post Impressionists, and the Cubists. While still in school, Thayer gave Cummings a copy of Willard Huntington Wright's Modern Painting, which Cummings annotated extensively. John Dos Passos also painted and dre
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    • “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it.” — E.E. Cummings

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    Picture Description: Hali, an adolescent black and tan German Shepherd, lays on the carpet and looks up at the camera with an elaborate kibble change laid out nearby which spells, "raise a puppy, change a life" in a fancy script font. Hali wears a blue pup on program bandana around her neck.

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    • An Illustrated Tour of New York City from a Dog’s Point of View

    “A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry.” So wrote E.B. White wrote in his timeless love letter to New York — a city that has, in fact, has inspired a great deal of poetry itself: visual poetry, like Berenice Abbott’s stunning photographs of its changing face and Julia Rothman’s illustrated tour of the five boroughs; poetic prose, like Zadie Smith’s love-hate letter to Gotham and the private writings of notable authors who lived in and visited the city; and poetry-poetry, like Frank O’Hara’s “Song (Is it dirty)” and Walt Whitman’s “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun.”

    Now comes a most unusual addition to the menagerie of Gotham-lovers — a foreign cousin of Manhattan’s beloved creative canines. In Americanine: A Haute Dog in New York (public library), French illustrator Yann Kebbi takes us on an imaginative and infectiously enthusiastic tour of the city from the point of view of a dog, “a merry canine” — a creature full of goodwill and earnest wonderment at the world, wholly devoid of the petty cynicisms that blind us to the miraculousness of so much humanity compressed into such a small space. It is only through such eyes of fiery friendliness that we begin to add music and meaning — to New York, to any city, to life itself.

    Kebbi’s illustrations, immeasurably delightful in their own right, bear a palpable kinship of spirit with this singular city itself — colorful and deeply alive, they bridge haste and purposefulness, simplicity and sophistication.

    We follow the dog as he samples the usual tourist attractions — from staples like the Statue of Liberty and Grand Central to classic funscapes like the Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel to bastions of high-brow culture like the Guggenhe

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    • E.E. Cummings’ Colorful, Imaginative Childhood Drawings

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    Archivists at the Massachusetts Historical Society, while cataloging the papers of the family of E.E. Cummings, recently found caches of previously unseen writing and sketches from the poet’s early years. Here are two drawings by a 6- and 7-year-old Edward Estlin Cummings.

    The two sketches, made between 1900 and 1902, reflect Cummings’ immersion in the popular culture of the time: circuses, Wild West shows, and adventure fiction.

    The friendship between the rhinoceros and the soldier, sketched briefly in a single drawing accompanied by creatively punctuated text, could come straight from a H. Rider Haggard novel or one of the fantastic animal tales of Ernest Thompson Seton.

    In the “Wild West Show” poster, the young artist pictures himself as a mustachioed impresario in military uniform, looking much like the dashing real-life showman William “Buffalo Bill” Cody.

    In later life, Cummings was to write a poem about Cody’s death—a work that reflected his onetime hero worship for the man, along with his more adult disillusionment in the “blueeyed boy”’s flashy showmanship. The young man’s fannish self-portrait and the older man’s ironic poem make a perfect pair.

    More of Cummings’ early drawings, along with a few written works of juvenilia, are on display at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston through Aug. 30.

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