XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings audiobook.

Genre: poetry

XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings is a bracing, playful, and often tender collection that showcases a poet determined to make language feel newly alive. Across forty-one pieces, Cummings tests what a poem can do on the page and in the ear: lines fracture, punctuation becomes part of the music, and familiar words are rearranged until they surprise. The voices in these poems move between intimacy and satire, praising love with startling directness while also skewering social conformity, hollow politics, and the impersonality of modern city life. Nature appears not as a calm backdrop but as a vivid counterpoint to mechanized routine, and the speaker repeatedly returns to the question of how to stay fully human in a world that rewards sameness. Whether whispering, laughing, or sharply accusing, the collection invites listeners to lean in, follow the rhythms, and trust the emotional clarity beneath the formal experimentation. XLI Poems is an ideal entry point into Cummings' distinctive modernist imagination: bold, lyrical, and fiercely committed to individual feeling.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:00:52) Chapter 02

(00:01:51) Chapter 03

(00:02:40) Chapter 04

(00:03:29) Chapter 05

(00:04:25) Chapter 06

(00:05:30) Chapter 07

(00:06:18) Chapter 08

(00:07:21) Chapter 09

(00:08:13) Chapter 10

(00:09:01) Chapter 11

(00:10:05) Chapter 12

(00:11:05) Chapter 13

(00:11:55) Chapter 14

(00:13:15) Chapter 15

(00:15:06) Chapter 16

(00:16:30) Chapter 17

(00:17:40) Chapter 18

(00:18:45) Chapter 19

(00:20:38) Chapter 20

(00:22:00) Chapter 21

(00:23:03) Chapter 22

(00:24:44) Chapter 23

(00:28:10) Chapter 24

(00:29:02) Chapter 25

(00:30:14) Chapter 26

(00:31:26) Chapter 27

(00:32:36) Chapter 28

(00:33:47) Chapter 29

(00:35:00) Chapter 30

(00:36:15) Chapter 31

(00:37:30) Chapter 32

(00:38:53) Chapter 33

(00:40:00) Chapter 34

(00:41:16) Chapter 35

(00:42:27) Chapter 36

(00:43:43) Chapter 37

(00:44:49) Chapter 38

(00:45:48) Chapter 39

(00:46:57) Chapter 40

(00:48:02) Chapter 41

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