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27 April 2005: I make no bones about the fact that my Cummings presentation is more an anthology of poems my press has published than anything else. Here's another specimen from work I've published that seems to me to have a lot in common with Cummings's work:
I've written on this, which is from LeRoy Gorman's Heavyn before. What it has in common with Cummings's work are: its "infraverbal vandalism," or anti-orthographically repeating textemes (which I now define as any textual symbol smaller than a syllable of more than one letter), adding textemes to texts, or subtracting textemes from texts; its fusing textemes from different words, its lyric simplicity and brevity, and its consequential focus on the image of bells (as, most prominently, in Cummings's "SNOW," one of whose many passages about bells is
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