CUMMINGS, E. E.; GROSSMAN, D. Jon (trans.).

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En Traduction: vingt-trois poemes. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his translator and his wife on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed for Anne-Marie and Don Jon Grossman (with good wishes) by E. E. Cummings, October 27 1960". The collection was dedicated to both Marion Morehouse and Anne-Marie Tschann.David Jonathan Grossman (1922-1990) first met Cummings whilst attending Peter Monro Jack's course at Columbia night school in 1941-42. After serving in the Second World War, Grossman attended Harvard in 1946 and began writing a thesis on Cummings, which he never finished. According to Grossman this was the start of their correspondence proper. In 1947 he moved to Paris but maintained the friendship; throughout the following years he wrote to or visited Cummings in the US. En Traduction was Grossman's first published translation, and in 1980 he was awarded the Prix Halperine-Kaminsky for his works on Cummings.

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