Intricate, Imperfect, Various Things - E.E. Cummings' Is 5 (5 sessions)
Tuesdays, 7:30-8:45 pm ET | April 28-May 26
With a simplicity of innovation and a playfulness of being, E.E. Cummings' fifth volume of poetry Is 5 (1926) gives readers the full feel of what modern poetry means to a modern world. Indeed, it is a world of lovers, drunks, seducers, collected souls and all the funny people you meet on the streets of your heart - just the verb of it all and told with a beauty of word and punctuation as tools for epiphany. There is no equal to the astonishment of a Cummings poem; discover this wonderful collection of life as no parentheses, in 5 easy reading sessions.
Text: Is 5 by e.e. cummings. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1996, 128 pages. ISBN: 0871401649
Reading Load: 15-20 pp (of poems)/week
Leader: Denise Ahlquist and JJ Patton have been leading literary seminars together for over 10 years.. Denise has a background in English and literary theory at the College of Wooster and the University of Wisconsin - Madison plus years of leading Shared Inquiry discussions with the Great Books Foundation. This is complemented by JJ, an alumnus of the University of Pittsburgh with a lifetime of writing and learning modern poetry.