Anyone else like e e cummings? Does he have AS?

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I had to read "anyone lived in a Pretty How Town" in school and kinda liked the ambiguity and opaqueness. I am starting to hear that about my creative writing. He blurred the lines and standards to a point where I doubt his being NT. However, I will consider the aspies who are obsessed with grammar structure to criticize this claim.

omg...there is someone else who has heard of ee cummings (let alone likes him...) besides me? omg....

i love 'anyone lived in a pretty how town'...had to write a paper on it and everything...most people don't understand his writing enough to appreciate it.
have you read any of his other poems besides this one?
have you checked out other poets of this genre? if not you should...he's not the only one with this writing style.

Other poets may have tried to emulate him, but e e cummings is pretty unique.
I have always liked his writing.
"with up so floating many bells down..." so sad. It took me a long time to appreciate that poem. It is so deep, with something new in every reread.

I've read a few of his poems, I like that it's all lowercase, and some of the structures, but I never really got into him. Are there any poems in particular that you would recommend reading?

I've studied some of his poems (perhaps the strangest of them) and really liked them. The unique structure he uses is probably what gives a poetic soul to his poems since they seem so simplistic once you have read them. His use of punctuation and mise en abyme is incredible, his style is very unique and I think he's quite a genius for having done that. This poetry is totally amazing once you've tried to go past the first messy impression, it's a painting you have to read, a written picture full of epanelepsis and oxymorons (and I love these poetic devices), he says everything and nothing at the same time and succeed in recreating an instant. That's totally awesome.

I really like the unusual structure, it's quite a challenge to find the words and the meaning of everything, it gives a peculiar meaning to the conventional language.

I especially love these ones :

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I am dizzy reading that. I get visually disorented easy. It is like an abstract picture with words

Love e.e.cummings. And Lewis Carroll. He's a great poet. Here's one of mine that I tried to write in his style.

DWINDLETIME



In dwindletime the crumblefolk go stumblefoot.

The minuteswifts rain tumbledown to dribblegone.

From hopelesscracks ooze mysteries of absolute

Convoluting histories. Encephalon

Sags toffee soft with mushysweat.

The scramblefest from septicflesh is panicnailed.

But twilightflight is moribund in dunregret.

Sireneloam sings quietus with appetite.

Fagendspurts buglecalls for finalshout

And heralds windup fizz to Sunputout.