The Boston Globe, October 21st, 1993
In the '50s, when poetry was generally the province of the academics and the Beats, e.e. cummings, a man caught in the middle, would often read his work for free on the Boston Common. The poet from Irving Street in Cambridge, who brought poetry from the private sector to the public and re-introduced humor to the stuffy form, has now been re-interpreted by Steve Scotti. "I was studing the theory of music at Boston University in the late '50s," said Scotti. "One afternoon in 1957, I heard cummings read on the Common and I was devastated by his poetry. In a good way. It was so affirmative and bea...
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