| Title: | Corman mss. II |
| Collection No.: | LMC 1220 |
| Dates: | 1960-1962 |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 1 Box Quantity: 1 standard |
| Abstract: | The Corman mss. II, 1960-1962, consists of letters from poet, editor, and translator Sidney "Cid" Corman, 1924-2004, to editor Will Petersen. |
| Location: | Lilly - Stacks |
| Language: | Materials are in English . |
| Repository: | Lilly Library 1200 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500 Business Number: 812-855-2452 liblilly@indiana.edu URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library |
Named Sidney, Corman was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from Tufts University in 1945 and did graduate work at the Universities of Michigan and North Carolina. In 1949 Corman created "This is Poetry" a radio program airing on WMEX in Boston which ran for three years. His next venture was a poetry magazine, Origin which featured and sometimes debuted such poets as Robert Creeley, William Bronk, Denise Levertov, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Olson, and Louis Zukofsky. Corman hit later established Origin Press, publishing some of these same authors as well as his own works. In the late 1950s he moved to Kyoto, Japan where he found work as a private teacher of English and poetry. He married Shizumi Konishi in 1965 and opened C.C.'s, a coffee and dessert shop that also served as a venue for poetry readings. He lived in the States several times over the years, but in 1982 moved permanently to Kyoto where he remained until his death in March 2004. His published works include over 100 books and pamphlets of poetry, translations of French, Italian and Japanese poets, and several volumes of essays.
Will Petersen, 1928-1994, was a painter, printmaker, translator, poet, and editor.
The Corman mss. II, 1960-1962, consists of letters from Sidney "Cid" Corman, 1924-2004, poet, editor, and translator, to Will Petersen, editor. They relate to the publication of material for Origin , a poetry magazine, edited and published in Kyoto, Japan, by Sidney Corman and Will Petersen. Some of the letters also contain comments on poets, authors, artists, politicians, an army officer, a television producer, 1960 U.S. election, and the Newport Jazz Festival.
This collection is arranged following original order.
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[Item], Corman mss. II, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Purchase: 1974