This edition of E.E. Cummings's Complete Poems contains all the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime, including 36 poems that were first collected in the 1991 edition and 164 unpublished poems issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera. Combining a controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. Formally fractured and yet gleefully alive and whole, at once cubistic and figurative, Cummings's work expanded the boundaries of what language is and can do.