E. E. Cummings– avant garde, not mechanically inept
January 22nd, 2007 by Aabra
Sorry, Mom, I can’t find any evidence that E. E. Cummings never used capital letters or that he ever used a broken typewriter. He specifically asked publishers to capitalize his name, and a quick skim of Cumming’s poetry reveals plenty of capital letters:
in Just-
by E. E. Cummings
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame baloonman…
Sorry. But the broken shift key legend is funny, even if it completely misses the point of Cummings’ avant garde punctuation style. 
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* ‘Did not know E. E. Cummings was a painter.
Sorry, Mom, I can’t find any evidence that E. E. Cummings never used capital letters or that he ever used a broken typewriter. He specifically asked publishers to capitalize his name, and a quick skim of Cumming’s poetry reveals plenty of capital letters:
in Just-
by E. E. Cummings
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame baloonman…
Sorry. But the broken shift key legend is funny, even if it completely misses the point of Cummings’ avant garde punctuation style.
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* ‘Did not know E. E. Cummings was a painter.