ee cummings i, six nonlectures & Louise Gluck & Edna St. Vincent Millay &Poems Speaking for Themselves

2022 Year of Aesthetics Series №4

In ee cummings i, six nonlectures, cummings ends every lecture by a selection of poems that he refuses to criticize or interpret he lets the poems stand on their own. He gives the shortest of introduction to the poem and names the poet. His selection is wonderous.

In this tradition with illness in my family a prose poem by Louise Gluck sticks in my mind The Foreshortened Journey which can be found at the bottom of the page at this link.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2020/gluck/poetry/

Also, the short doggerel poems of the two figs by Edna St. Vincent Millay need no explanation on the wonderfulness of our follies.