''Tulips and Chimneys'' is the first collection of poetry by

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

, published in 1923.

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This collection is the first dedicated exclusively to Cummings's poetry;E E Cummings
Poetry Foundation, retrieved 18 April 2014 his work had been published previously alongside others' in '' Eight Harvard Poets''. Though most now know the title to be ''

Tulip Tulips (''Tulipa'') are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm ...

s & Chimneys'' (with an ampersand), Cummings's original title request was disregarded by the publisher Thomas Seltzer, who changed the ampersand to the word "and." Eventually, the book would come to be published together with the collection ''"&"'', under Cummings's original title. ''Tulips and Chimneys'' features, among others, the poems "All in green went my love riding", "Thy fingers make early flowers of", "Buffalo Bill's", and " Puella Mea". The original manuscript contained 152 poems of which only 86 appeared in this volume. 41 of the other poems later appeared in '' XLI Poems'', and the balance (along with 34 new poems) were privately printed by the author in the simply named ''"&"'' in 1925.

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