Hist Whist Read online

  New York, Peace, 1918

  Poems Left with Elaine Orr, 1918–19

  Poems from the Dial Papers,

  1919–20

  Poems from the 1920s

  Late Poems, 1930–62

  An additional group of twenty-three poems—typical examples of Cummings’s earliest efforts and some of his translations from Horace—is printed in the Appendices.

  Other books by E. E. Cummings

  Him

  Is 5

  in The Cummings Typescript Editions:

  The Enormous Room

  Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems

  of E.E. Cummings

  No Thanks

  Tulips & Chimneys

  ViVa

  XAIPE

  This series of the published and unpublished writings of E. E. Cummings is based upon the author’s typed and autographed manuscripts. Now available in this series are: The Enormous Room, Tulips & Chimneys, No Thanks, ViVa, XAIPE, Etcetera, and Hist Whist and Other Poems for Children.

  The following Cummings titles, first published by Liveright, are currently in their original editions: Him and is 5.

  Copyright © 1923,1944,1949,1950,1951,1953,1956,1958,

  1961, by E. E. Cummings

  Copyright © 1963 by Marion M. Cummings

  Copyright © 1972,1976,1977,1978,1979,1981,1983

  by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust

  Copyright © 1983 by David Calsada

  First Edition

  Published simultaneously in Canada

  by Stoddart Publishing, Toronto

  Poems on pages 1, 5, 7, 8–9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 27, 29, 31, 33,

  35, and 37 are reprinted from COMPLETE POEMS 1913–1962

  by E. E. Cummings, by permission of Harcourt Brace

  Jovanovich, Inc.; copyright 1949,1950,1951,1953,1956,

  1958,1961, by E. E. Cummings; copyright 1963 by

  Marion Morehouse Cummings.

  ISBN 0-87140-640-3

  ISBN 978-0-871-40640-8

  ISBN 978-0-871-40392-6 (e-book)

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