Description:
The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison. Includes Paul Headrick's essay "Brilliant Obscurity."
Brief description: E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He is widely regarded as one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. During his lifetime Cummings received numerous awards for his work, including two Guggenheim Fellowships and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry.
Review Quotes:
"It's not as an account of a war atrocity or as an attack on France...that The Enormous Room is important, but as a distinct conscious creation separate from anything else under heaven." -John Dos Passos