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Biography E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings decided to become a poet when he was still a child. Between the ages of eight and twenty-two, he wrote a poem a day. By the time he was in Harvard in 1916, modern poetry had caught his interest. He began to write avant-garde poems in which conventional punctuation and syntax were ignored in favour of a dynamic use of language. (Founded the Harvard Poets Society) After Harvard, Cummings went to New York. In this city he held his first and only job, three months with P. F. Collier Son, Inc., mail-order booksellers In April of 1917 volunteered for Ambulanc