''1 × 1'' (''One Times One'', sometimes stylized ''I × I'') is a 1944 book of poetry by American poet
E. E. Cummings. Cummings's biographer Richard S. Kennedy described the theme of the book, Cummings's ninth, as "oneness and the means (one times one) whereby that oneness is achieved—love". The book contains 54 poems, including portraits of people important to Cummings, and antiwar poems.
It received the
Shelley Memorial Award in 1945,
and was reissued by publisher
Harcourt Brace
Harcourt () was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. It was known at different stages in its history as Harcourt Brace, & Co. and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. From 1919 to 1 ...
in 1954.
See also
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pity this busy monster, manunkind
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Quotes from ''1 × 1'' at Wikiquote
References
1944 poetry books
Poetry by E. E. Cummings
American poetry collections
Henry Holt and Company books
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