Nothing/Doing: Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook)
Corman, Cid
ISBN 10: 0811214257 ISBN 13: 9780811214254
Published by New Directions, 2000
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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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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.
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Title: Nothing/Doing: Selected Poems (New ...
Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good