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Also Known As Edward Estlin Cummings
Born October 14, 1894 • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Died September 3, 1962 (aged 67) • New Hampshire
Awards And Honors Bollingen Prize (1957)
Notable Works “Complete Poems” • “Eimi” • “The Enormous Room” • “i: six nonlectures”

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