And the Word

Publication date: January 1, 1987

Format: Trade Paper

Dimensions: 6 x 9

Page count: 144 pages

ISBN: 9780918273345

In addition to his poetry, including And the Word published by Coffee House Press, Cid Corman has made major contributions to American letters through his poetry radio show in the late 40s and early 50s, through his translations of German and Japanese writers, and through Origin Magazine and Origin Press. As one of the first publishers of Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, William Bronk, Larry Eigner, and others, and as a poet and essayist, Corman was an active participant in the international literary community.

“The purest language, in minimal lines like those of Williams or Creeley, makes one think of other arts in their purity: a clean tone of harpsichord of music, or flute, or lute, or Matisse colors, or sumi painting or the Zen archer, shooting well.”

—Alicia Ostriker, Partisan Review

“Corman’s questions speak what whole libraries have debated about contemporary experience. And they show his method very well—conflict, balance, compression.”

—Hayden Carruth, The New York Times Book Review