The poet e. e. cummings was a very interesting reader of his own work.
He went on coast-to-coast tours, speaking in large auditoriums --
at least I heard him in 1961 in Chicago's Studebaker Theatre, which seated
about 2000.  He died about a year later, and when the girl
who had been my date heard about it, she cried.

You can probably find recordings.  I have an LP.
But needless to say it was better live.

Auden, Roethke, Snodgrass, Spender were OK, 
but much less interesting to hear than cummings.



Martin C. Tangora
University of Illinois at Chicago
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