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...intrigued by the Knowledge. But you also have this mythos around London cabbies, that they're kind of rebarbative bigots, wandering around town in a box, a small church that seats five communicants at a time." The novel's universe is typically Self-made. In the year 523 A.D. (Anno Dave, that is), on the isle of Ham, the onetime London district of Hampstead, six family clans eke out a hard, bucolic living. The Hamsters adhere to the ancient Davine scriptures, learning his "runs" by rote from the local priest, or Driver. They speak in Mokni, a transliterated...
Though surely more difficult, Sawyer-Lauçanno said his reliance on Cummings’ own writings rather than the accounts of friends and family resulted in the truest and most comprehensive extant portrait of the poet...
...archival method Sawyer-Lauçanno employed was necessary due to the time elapsed since the subject’s life. The book “was very different from [his previous biographies] in that there were few people alive that knew him during his early and even middle years to interview. In a sense I wrote it five or ten years too late...
...charges commonly levied against Cummings was that he did not develop as a poet. According to Sawyer-Lauçanno, this accusation springs from that fact that Cummings was “so good so early. For the rest of his life he continually refined early experiments.” Continuity is not a sign of weakness here, but of maturity...
...more difficult poems that function at the syllabic or even phonemic level” along with the huge number of drafts that “vary only by one word, or the spacing of words, or in the margins” gave Sawyer-Lauçanno a reverence for Cummings’ skill. “[His poems] seem so spontaneous, so lively and so free yet they represent such craftsmanship. He appeals to the ear and to the eye,” he said...