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A review by amittaizero
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
5.0
Hilarious. Disgusting. Sad. Cynically sharp-edged.
I was completely unaware of Cummings' ordeal until I read about it in a brief bio of Cummings in [b:War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing: Library of America #278|27036657|War No More Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing Library of America #278|Lawrence Rosenwald|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1453061906s/27036657.jpg|47077891].
Cummings' time in institutional, war-time purgatory is brilliantly, angrily written. For anyone who has spent time as a captive of the state this book will bring you back to that time. Cummings spent 89 days in Dépôt de Triage at La Ferté-Macé, Orne, France with a wildly diverse group of men. It's really not possible to describe it here.
I was completely unaware of Cummings' ordeal until I read about it in a brief bio of Cummings in [b:War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing: Library of America #278|27036657|War No More Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing Library of America #278|Lawrence Rosenwald|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1453061906s/27036657.jpg|47077891].
Cummings' time in institutional, war-time purgatory is brilliantly, angrily written. For anyone who has spent time as a captive of the state this book will bring you back to that time. Cummings spent 89 days in Dépôt de Triage at La Ferté-Macé, Orne, France with a wildly diverse group of men. It's really not possible to describe it here.