The Enormous Room Author:E. E. Cummings In the autumn of 1917, zealous French police arrested two American ambulance corpsmen on suspicion of spying. One of the men was Edward Estlin Cummings, a young Harvard graduate and aspiring poet. The two spent three months in the squalid detention center of La Ferté-Macé in Normandy. Cummings' fellow prisoners--the Machine-Fixer, the Zulu, the ... more »Young Skipper's Mate, the Wanderer, the Lobster--presented a human pageant reminiscent of Chaucher.« less