In 1917 the young Cummings and a fellow volunteer of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps were arrested on suspicion of disloyalty and held for months at La Ferté-Macé in Normandy. He renders that captivity as a pilgrim’s progress through one vast dormitory crowded with prisoners of every nation, portraying them in vivid, playful and fiercely individual prose.
A landmark of First World War writing, by the poet who would become one of America’s great modernists. Download the free EPUB.