Cid Corman profiled on The PIP (Project of Innovative Poetry) Blog. Thanks to Ed Baker for the heads up!
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enuresis
by Cid Corman
Terror is not – Ed –
sitting in one’s piss.
I know – I’ve sat there –
I’ve slept there and did
most of my childhood.
That was warmth – in fact –
and comfort – in spite
of the unconcealed
unconcealable
smell. Terror? That was
and always will be
Mother cursing Dad
and there there I am
alone in that night
here is a Cid/Philip Rpwland 2,000 interview in two parts via flashpoint:<br />http://www.flashpointmag.com/corman1.htm<br /><br />this is about-as-good-as-it-gets.<br /><br />Carlo Parcelli and Brad Haas who do flashpoint live very near me. I went to school early to mid 60's with Carlo<br />Carlo's The Canaanite Gospel is, to say the least, a "trip"..<br />you should hear/see
Like Ed, I say I hope Cid gets his due soon–it's too long overdue.
What's most badly needed is a committed biographer to write Cid's life. Not someone who was there (it would become a memoir), but a biographer who could sort through the conflicting accounts. Someone people like you, Ed, would trust with copies of your Cid-related papers….
oppps that first correspondence "set" was 1972 -1975 … then I dropped out for the next 30 years or so…<br /><br />now? I'd drop out again but<br />fear that the next time that<br />I'd drop-back-in I'd be dead
the guy who did the blog post could have done a bit more research … Cid deserves a truth-based<br />biography … an intense-life-in-poetry deserves more than this 'bare-bones' sketch.<br /><br />- it was Gary Snyder who introduced Cid to Will Petersen who got Cid that first teaching job.<br />- it was not "CC" ice-cream shop… it was CCS and Shizumi was it s heart<br />-
Joseph,<br /><br />I'd like to thank Ed, too, for his unflagging loyalty to a man and his poetics. Ed's introduced me to many contemporary figures but the two to whom I'm most beholden to Ed for are Corman and Samperi. What a difference those two alone have made in my own poetical life!