Sidney Corman | Biography

Cid (Sidney) Corman is adamant about some things. One is that he is the most prolific writer in human history. And one would have to think long and hard to find a writer of equal output. More than one hundred titles now exist--poetry, prose, and translations--and dozens of other manuscripts sit in his house in Kyoto, Japan, books for which he explains he has neither the time, means, nor interest in looking for a publisher. Corman's prolificness is the result of writing literally every day--even ill--for fifty years now. Whereas Corman's output borders on the legendary, he is perhaps better known for his launching and editorship of Origin, a magazine instrumental in nurturing a community of writers in the Ezra Pound/William Carlos Williams line whose high commitment to poetry did not necessarily translate into high visibility. Charles Olson, William Bronk, Louis Zukofsky, and Robert Creeley are but some of the...
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