1 × 1 is a 1944 book of poetry by American poet E. E. Cummings. Cummings' biographer Richard S. Kennedy described the theme of the book, Cummings' ninth, as "oneness and the means whereby that oneness is achieved—love". The book contains 54 poems, including portraits of people important to Cummings, and antiwar poems. It received the Shelley Memorial Award in 1945, and was reissued by publisher Harcourt Brace in 1954.
“We doctors know a hopeless case if — listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go”
E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1
XIV : pity this busy monster, manunkind
1 x 1 (1944)
Variant: listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go
“a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man”
E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1
Source: 1 x 1 (1944), X
“and liars kill their kind
but' her, my 'love creates love only' our”
E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1
Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXII
“true lovers in each happening of their hearts
live longer than all which and every who;”
E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1
Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXVI
“when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man”
E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1
Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XX
