Cumming’s poems fall in a range bettween free-verse poems with the distinctive attribute heavily imposed to conventional poems where the attribute is barely there. An example of Cumming’s distinctive hallmark is seen in his critically acclaimed avant-gardist poem “grasshopper/ r-p-o-ph-e-s-s-a-g-r ” poem. This poem was first published in the inaugural issue of William Carlos Williams’ magazine, Contact. Later it was republished in Cumming’s sixth book of poems, No Thanks. Critics to this day explore the numerous way E.e.Cummings plots his letters in a dynamic motion to illustrate the life of a dancing grasshopper. The poem “grasshopper/ r-p-o-ph-e-s-s-a-g-r” is a typographical mess of spacing, punctuation, small letters, line divisions, capitals,
