Cid Corman, 1924 - 2004
Monday March 15, 2004
from Jesse Glass on the Buffalo Poetics List:
“Just got word from Shizumi [Ed. note: Cid Corman’s wife] that Cid passed on at about 6 o’clock this evening, March 12th, Japan time. Cid had been on complete life support since his bypass operation and had lingered on in a semi-conscious state. Now he’s at one with his words and his long goodbye is over.”
Cid Corman was a beloved & amazingly prolific poet, translator of French & Japanese poets, host of the first American poetry radio show, respected essayist and the independent editor & founder of Origin Press, which published a great deal of the most important new American poetry from the 1950s on. He lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife Shizumi, & carried on voluminous correspondences with poets all over the world.
Taylor Mignon, our Museletter correspondent in Japan, wrote a profile of Cid Corman in 2001. Larry Sawyer has posted his last letter from Corman & Corman’s final poems at Milk Magazine.
Related resources:
Our reference page on Cid Corman
Other profiles of contemporary poets here at About Poetry
“Just got word from Shizumi [Ed. note: Cid Corman’s wife] that Cid passed on at about 6 o’clock this evening, March 12th, Japan time. Cid had been on complete life support since his bypass operation and had lingered on in a semi-conscious state. Now he’s at one with his words and his long goodbye is over.”
Cid Corman was a beloved & amazingly prolific poet, translator of French & Japanese poets, host of the first American poetry radio show, respected essayist and the independent editor & founder of Origin Press, which published a great deal of the most important new American poetry from the 1950s on. He lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife Shizumi, & carried on voluminous correspondences with poets all over the world.
Taylor Mignon, our Museletter correspondent in Japan, wrote a profile of Cid Corman in 2001. Larry Sawyer has posted his last letter from Corman & Corman’s final poems at Milk Magazine.
Related resources:
Our reference page on Cid Corman
Other profiles of contemporary poets here at About Poetry
Comments
No comments yet. Leave a Comment