EIMI (432 pp.)E. E. CummingsSloane ($5).
When it was first published in 1933 (in an edition of 1,300 copies), Poet Edward Estlin Cummings' journal of a visit to Russia fell flat. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style filled with puns, parodies and typographical innovations, it seemed on the surface a needlessly complicated work on a subject of no great difficultya trip from Paris to Moscow (and back by Odessa and Constantinople) on which nothing happened,
In the years since, the style* of Eimi (pronounced ay-me"I am," in Greek) has become slightly more familiar; it offers...
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