#cid corman

[garadinervi]

«Origin» No. 8, Second Series: Response, Edited by Cid Corman, Featuring Cid Corman, Origin Press, Kyoto, January 1963 [Between the Covers, Gloucester City, NJ]

Contributors: Lorine Niedecker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Shimpei Kusano, among others

[mirefireflies]

the minotaur was just a boy once. it's not his fault he was made into a monster.

Confessions of a Minotaur - Nora J Watson / Minotaur - Justin Sweet / The Minotaur - Ted Hughes / Backtalk from the Minotaur - Cid Corman / The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill / FIRST TIME OF THE MINOTAUR - Maurizio L'Altrella / Minotaur - Paul Reid / Metamorphoses Book 8 - Ovid / Borge’s “The House of Asterion” - Maurice J Bennett / Minotauromachia - Picasso / the minotaur - @honeyginsen (x) (x)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Isidro Li :: @isidro_li :: Philippe Jaccottet (translated by Cid Corman)

[response-to-other]

-- cid corman

[withnailrules]

Someone I cared for put it to me: Who do you think you are? I went down the list of all the many possibilities carefully-- did it twice-- but couldn't find a plausible one. That was when I knew for the first time who in fact I wasn't.

Cid Corman

[johnmost]

Tu: Poems by Cid Corman (Toothpaste Press, 1983)

[anaxerneas]

There remains at least one important example of a definitive poem ending to look at. The last lines of "Le pré" [The Meadow] come close to a calligram. Ponge asks in them that the typesetters who deal with this text about the meadow should draw a line under the final phrase, and then print "Francis Ponge" immediately below that line. In making this request, of course Ponge actually complies with it, and the end of the text consists of a line drawn under the last verse, with Ponge's name below.

This elaborate piece of preciosity is designed to convey the idea of the end of the poem, the conventional signature found at the end of a piece of writing, but also, because the poem has been about a meadow and about the flora which abound on its surface, Ponge is bringing himself to an end, his task completed, by asking to be buried immediately below the surface of the meadow. Literally, "Francis Ponge" lies below his meadow.

Martin Sorrell, Francis Ponge

Here is the meadow's end in Cid Corman's translation:

[lunchboxpoems]

THE CALL

There’s only one poem: this is it. CID CORMAN