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cokernel | 7 years ago

Here is some support for the claim that he sometimes used a capitalized version of his name.

Quoting from http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/cummings/caps2.html :

> As we may have mentioned, due to the kindness of D. Jon Grossman's son, Jerome, we have the complete file of Jon's correspondence with Cummings. On making a preliminary tour through these letters, we found Jon preparing a French edition of his translations of Cummings' poetry, and on 27 February 1951 he wrote to the poet: "are you E.E.Cummings, ee cummings, or what?(so far as the title page is concerned)wd u like title page all in lowercase?"

> The poet replied on 1 March 1951: "E.E.Cummings, unless your printer prefers E. E. Cummings/ titlepage up to you;but may it not be tricksy svp[.]"

> That seems definitive to us: may it not be tricksy!

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