Nothing/Doing: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Corman, Cid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811214257 ISBN 13: 9780811214254

Publisher: New Directions, 2000

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century. He lived most of his life in Kyoto, Japan.

Review

1848
22nd January 1869
29
Admiral
After 'amen!'
Alighieri
All I Had
And If You
Answers Every
The Art Of Nature
Ask Theseus
Babbalanja
Beholden
Beyond Crit
Butterfly
The Cancelled Close
Candle Light
Chances
Childhood Jangle
Cicadas
Cogwheels
Conte Crayon
Das Kapital
Daybreak Reminds Us
Devotion
A Dewdrop World Ay
The Dialogue
Did That Bird Want To
Efficacies
Entered Into It
Enuresis
Every One Makes
Everything Ends
The Exercise
The Father
The Fault
A Few Years Yet
Fire Explains
For Rene
For The End Of It
For Whose Benefit
Froggy
Getting Into The Jazz
Glimpses
Going On This Way
The Goldfish
Greeting Card
Hard Going Way Worn
Harvesting The Sun
He Needed
Headline
The Hungry Ones
I Want The Words
I Will Tell You The Secret
I'm Shitting
If These Words Be Ours
If You Would Step Into The Infinite
In A Moment
In The Shadow Of
The Interest
Is It Every
Is That The Moon
Is That
Islands
It All Comes
It Always
It Isnt For Want
It Isnt
It Was All
It's Never Enough
Jalal-ud-din - Dont
Jesus Put In His
Just Resting
The Kinks
The Lady
Laissez Faire
Late Autumn
Life Is Excessive
Life Is Remembering
Life? Dont Beg
Like Coming Back From
Look. You Are Staring
The Meaninglessness
Metaballon Anapauetai
Moody Mary
Mountain
Mountains In Mist In
Music - Weaving - Computing
My Mistake
N.b.
No Matter How
Now
O Bon
O Venus - Here I
One Breath Says It All
Only The Living Want Life
Orbit
Painting The Music
Pear Being Pared Ah
People Like Rembrandt
Poetry Becomes
Post Coitum
The Posthumous
Praise From Ripley
Primeval
The Principle
Psalm: 24
Psalm: 25
Psalm: 43
A Red Thread
Riva San Vitale
Riverrun
A Rose For Gertrude
The Route
Ruth
Samperi
Seeing Paint
Sir :damnable Proud
So Easily
So What
Socrates
Something Bothering?
Stop Now And
Summer
The Sun Is
Swell
There's No
There's Only
They Find In The Ancient Tomb
They're Children
This Isnt
Though You Say You'll Come
To
To Be Or Not To
To Find Something To
To Sit In The Room
Tough Cookie
Tout D'un Cuyp
We Want To
When America
Who Were We To Die?
Why Are You
Why Should I
With The Birds Singing
The Word
You Are The Divine
You Are
You May Not Want To
You Want To Know
Zzz
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Nobody knows how to do so much with so few words as Corman. And Nothing/Doing is rich with his austerities, poems full of wisdom and tenderness and absurdities. It's a book that seems to have come from every time in the man's life, as if all his times were in his custody at once. It feels to me like the summa poetica of Corman's work, where he stands up to be counted. And shows the power and grace of what he does so well. -- Robert Kelly

The poems themselves are allusive, and beneath their simple phrasing Corman evokes multiple meanings carefully. -- Boston Review, Catherine Daly, October/November 2000

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0811214257
• ISBN 13: 9780811214254
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 153