17 August 2015

NYC #29: Patchin Place, Greenwich Village

 
 
At number 4:
'e. e. cummings
 
1894-1962
 
The poet and painter, who made art
of commas and parentheses,
lived here for the last forty years
of his life. He characterized himself
as "an author of pictures,
a draughtsman of words.'
 
'4 PATCHIN PLACE
 
ONE-TIME HOME OF "POETandPAINTER" E. E. CUMMINGS (d. 1962) AND
HIS WIFE, MODEL AND PHOTOGRAPHER MARION MOOREHOUSE (d. 1969)
 
"--do lovers love?why the to heaven with hell,
Whatever sages say and fools,all's well"'
 
 
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) also lived in Patchin Place, diagonally opposite Cummings's place, in a one-room apartment for forty-two years.

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