enormous smallness

this is a great children's book about poet and painter e.e. cummings.  i learned so much more about his life and that he had a charmed childhood--his father even built him a cabin and a tree house in which to write.

matthew burgess authored the book and amazing illustrations by kris di giamoco bring it to life.

after attending harvard, e.e. (edward estlin) drove an ambulance in france during world war I before settling in greenwhich village.

here is one of his poems i especially like:

love is a place
& through this place of 
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of 
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds.

 --1935