Cid Corman Letters, 1971-1972

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Cid Corman Letters, 1971-1972

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Cid Corman (1924- ) is a poet, editor of the journal, owner of the Origin Press, editor and translator of the work of several other poets, and literary critic. Corman, who has lived mostly in Japan since 1954, received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1974. Origin, The collection consists of 17 letters, 2 July 1971-11 April 1972, from Cid Corman, Utano, Kyoto, Japan, to poet Ted Enslin, Temple, Maine. Each letter is typed and covers two pages of an aerogramme. The letters are conversational and reflective. Common friends are often discussed as are, usually briefly, fellow poets and their work. The most fully treated topics are educational theory and experience. Corman also commented in several letters on how the cultural atmosphere in the United States affected creative potential. Other topics are Corman's financial situation, his prospects for publishing his recent work, elements of his philosophy of living, and aspects of the natural world.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers.

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Corman, Cid

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American poet and editor of the small magazine Origin. From the description of Letters : Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Mr. & Mrs. Kirgo, 1951 May 8-July 9. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32415686 Highly prolific poet, translator, and prose writer, Cid Corman was born in Boston in 1924. He enrolled as an undergraduate at Tufts University in 1941, graduating in 1945. He completed post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and the Universit...