May I Feel Said He

The poem may i feel said he is a sensually ecstatic tribute to love and a humorous salute to the mating rituals between men and women. Originally published in Cumming's 1935 No Thanks collection, may i feel said he is one of the poet's most original and best loved works.
Marc Chagall's floating lovers and violin-playing horses are the perfect complement to Cumming's whimiscal poem. Chagall's lyrical work always reflected the artist's fascination with the many facets of love. "Is it not true that painting and color are inspired by love?" he wrote in 1973, at the age of 85. The twenty-three diverse paintings in this collection include many works that have rarely been seen in public.
may i feel said he is a stunning marriage of art and poetry and a giddy celebration of love.

E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) has been called the major American poet of the middle twentieth-century. A centennial edition of the entire body of his work, E.E. Cummings Complete Poems 1904-1962, was published in 1994.

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is one of the most outstanding painters of modern times. His work is featured in the public collection of major art museums in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, France, England, Israel, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Finland, and Germany.