First published in 1931, ViVa contains four of E. E. Cummings' most experimental poems as well as some of his most memorable. The volume includes such no-famous celebrations as "i sing of Olaf glad and big" and "if there are any heavens my mother will (all be herself) have, " along with such favorites as "Space being (don't forget to remember) Curved, " "a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon, " and "somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond.