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by: Cid Corman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780811214254
ISBN: 0811214257
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 153
Publication Date: 2000-02
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Sales Rank: 1792487
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Corman is one of modernism's enduring masters, a poet of prodigious talent and production whose work, both as poet and publisher, is intertwined with the Objectivists Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen, as well as the Black Mountain poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson. Among such modern giants, Corman's verse is perhaps the most refined, refusing the temptation of 'effect' for the tactile ink of line and 'touch.' Nothing/Doing presents a vital poetry of zen koan and cognitive conundrum, but also one of uncompromising wisdom, where Corman can definitively declare: 'There's only/one poem:/ this is it.'
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Rating: - Cid's Forgetting
A tremendously gifted person, Cid Corman wrote scores of poems, translations, plays, and critcism, and produced Origin, one of the most innovative magazines of its time. Cid lived with his wife Shizumi in a small house on the outskirts of Kyoto for most of 50 years and poets visiting Japan would inevitably find their way to his doorstep to share his legendary hospitality. Cid's existence was one that I would call "splendid isolation." Kyoto was Cid's Walden. The post office was Cid's link to ... Read More
Rating: - Small Moments, Momentous Implications
Cid Corman has written thousands of poems. He first came into his own in the 1950s, and through his magazine "Origin," defined one of the great Modernists streams woven from the Black Mountain poets and the Objectivists. His subjects--insights into human frailty, feeling, and thought--make poetry prized for its restrained and subtle musics, its gentle yet piercing wit, and its honesty. I can think of only a few other poets whose work will outlive our contemporary biases to rest among the masterpieces ... Read More
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