Cummings’s ninth book of poems,One Times One, was first published in 1944. The poems inOne Times Onehave as their theme oneness and the means (one times one) whereby that oneness is achieved–love, in the words of Cummings’s biographer Richard S. Kennedy. Besides new expressions of universal concerns, Cummings writes here in a lyric and optimistic mode, drawing portraits of people dear to him in New Hampshire and New York City’s Greenwich Village. This new edition joins other individual uniform Liveright paperback volumes drawn from theComplete Poems, most recentlyEtceteraand22and50 Poems.