James Vincent Cunningham was an American poet, literary critic and teacher.
“An old dissembler who lived out his lie
Lies here as if he did not fear to die.”
"An Epitaph for Anyone", 1942 The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997, ISBN 0-804-00997-X
Epigrams
"Jack and Jill", 1981
The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997, ISBN 0-804-00997-X
Other poetry
“Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition.”
'Poetry, Structure and Tradition' Dec 31 1939
General
The Problem of Style, Fawcett, New York 1966
General
“Meditation on Statistical Method”, 1960
The Exclusions of a Rhyme: Poems and Epigrams, Ohio University Press, 1960.
Other poetry
“Despise me not
And not be queasy
To praise somewhat
Verse is not easy”
'For my Contemporaries' from - The Helmsman 1942
Epigrams
“Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain
And time grows fertile with extended pain”
'Exclusion of Rhyme' Alan Swallow Denver 1942
Epigrams
from "In a few days now when two memories meet", 1964
The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997, ISBN 0-804-00997-X
Other poetry
Interview quoted in Timothy Steele 'Introduction & Commentary-Poetry of J V Cunningham'
General
