E.E. Cummings 1894-1962 : "Reprieve Pisseur American"

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Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet who wrote 2,900 poems . While living in Paris E.E. was arrested for unrinating in public .c2.jpg
He was released

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The next night he had dinner with John Dos Passos and Malcolm Cowley c3.jpg

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E.E Cummings c6quot.jpg

Would once again urinate in public.
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After many bottles of wine cdrinkwine.jpg
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Malcolm Cowley then starts to pull down books from the shelves and tear some apart.

He piles them all on the asbestos mat in front of the stove : then lights them up ccmatch.jpg

It was a gesture in the Dada manner cdada.jpg

They all talked about bad writers while the smoke grew thicker. cburningbook.jpg

E.E. Cummings proved that he was a better Dadaist cdada2.png

He walked over to the burning books cpeeing1.png

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