Here’s an illuminating review by Gregory Dunne of Cid Corman’s The Next One Thousand Years, first published in The Pacific Rim Review of Books. Having written about the book myself for The Bloomsbury Review, I was struck by the fact that there is not a single overlap between my illustrative sampling of Corman’s work and Mr. Dunne’s. Yes, Cid Corman’s excellence is just that broad and various. He was less a maker of discrete masterpieces than a laborer in the garden of consciousness: every Corman poem tastes different, but they all provide sustenance.
So concise and beautifully said. Yes. "a laborer in the garden of consciousness.