E. E. Cummings (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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When Cummings gave his father the manuscript of his book The Enormous Room (1922) to deliver to Boni and Liveright for publication, his instructions were explicit: No changes were to be made in his work. When the autobiographical narrative appeared in print, however, he found that several chapters had been omitted. Horace Liveright maintained that he had removed only a few obscenities to make the book’s publication possible. He suggested that Cummings’ father was responsible for the missing chapters, a charge strongly denied by Edward Cummings.
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