Dear Kate,

   I don’t think cummings and Frost are opposed like
the urban X farm thing. Frost wasn’t even worried
about a new idiom for poetry, he wasn’t concerned with
that MAKE IT NEW motto (and that’s why he got so upset
about Pound’s review that said:“he paints the thing as
he sees it”). On the other hand, e.e.cummings was much
of an ancient Greek lyrical poet; consider what it
means in the beginning of the 20th century. Yet, some
critics today find cummings only a common lyrical poet
with an odd English (sic) typescript. They can’t see
the Greek element of his unusual conception of rhythm.

By the way, I’m sending you a link:

http://www.ubu.com/feature/sound/feature_cummings.html

with some of his poems read by himself, which I think
are pretty illustrative.
                               Best regards,
                                       Dirceu Villa.



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