Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

PREFACE A Visit to the Masters School

  1 Odysseus Returns to Cambridge

  2 104 Irving Street

  3 Harvard

  4 The Western Front

  5 The Enormous Room

  6 Greenwich Village: Elaine and Nancy

  7 Anne Barton and Joseph Stalin

  8 Eimi and Marion Morehouse

  9 No Thanks

10 Ezra Pound and Santa Claus

11 Rebecca and Nancy

12 “I think I am falling in love with you”

13 Readings: A New Career

14 Victory and Defeat

CODA Cummings’s Reputation in the Twenty-first Century

AFTERWORD Patchin Place

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Photographic Credits

Illustrations

Other Books by This Author