Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American writer, interpreter and editorial manager, most prominently of Origin, who was a key figure in the historical backdrop of American verse in the second 50% of the twentieth century.
Life :
Corman was conceived in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood and grew up close-by in the Dorchester neighborhood. His folks were both from the Ukraine. From an early age he was a devoted peruser and demonstrated a bent for drawing and calligraphy. He went to Boston Latin School and in 1941 he entered Tufts University, where he accomplished Phi Beta Kappa respects and composed his first sonnets. He was pardoned from benefit in World War II for restorative reasons and graduated in 1945.
Corman examined for his Master's degree at the University of Michigan, where he won the Hopwood verse grant, however dropped out two credits shy of fruition. After a concise spell at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he invested some energy going around the United States, coming back to Boston in 1948.
Vocation :
Early work :
Corman ran verse occasions out in the open libraries and, with the assistance of his secondary school companion Nat Hentoff, he began the nation's first verse radio program.
In 1952, Corman expressed: "I started my week by week communicates, known as This Is Poetry, from WMEX (1510 kc.) in Boston. The program has been normally a fifteen-minute perusing of present day verse on Saturday nights at seven thirty; in any case, I have taken a few freedoms and have perused from Moby Dick and from stories by Dylan Thomas, Robert Creeley, and Joyce."
This program included readings by Robert Creeley, Stephen Spender, Theodore Roethke and numerous other Boston-based and going to artists. He additionally invested some energy at the Yaddo specialists' withdraw in Saratoga Springs. It was about this time Corman changed his name from Sydney Corman to the less difficult "Cid." As Corman shown in discussion, this name change—like Walt Whitman's presumption of Walt over Walter—flagged his beginnings as a writer for the regular man.
Amid this period, Corman was composing productively and distributed in abundance of 500 sonnets in around 100 magazines by 1954. He viewed this as a sort of apprenticeship, and none of these sonnets were ever distributed in book shape.
Corman was conceived in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood and grew up close-by in the Dorchester neighborhood. His folks were both from the Ukraine. From an early age he was a devoted peruser and demonstrated a bent for drawing and calligraphy. He went to Boston Latin School and in 1941 he entered Tufts University, where he accomplished Phi Beta Kappa respects and composed his first sonnets. He was pardoned from benefit in World War II for restorative reasons and graduated in 1945.
Corman examined for his Master's degree at the University of Michigan, where he won the Hopwood verse grant, however dropped out two credits shy of fruition. After a concise spell at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he invested some energy going around the United States, coming back to Boston in 1948.
Vocation :
Early work :
Corman ran verse occasions out in the open libraries and, with the assistance of his secondary school companion Nat Hentoff, he began the nation's first verse radio program.
In 1952, Corman expressed: "I started my week by week communicates, known as This Is Poetry, from WMEX (1510 kc.) in Boston. The program has been normally a fifteen-minute perusing of present day verse on Saturday nights at seven thirty; in any case, I have taken a few freedoms and have perused from Moby Dick and from stories by Dylan Thomas, Robert Creeley, and Joyce."
This program included readings by Robert Creeley, Stephen Spender, Theodore Roethke and numerous other Boston-based and going to artists. He additionally invested some energy at the Yaddo specialists' withdraw in Saratoga Springs. It was about this time Corman changed his name from Sydney Corman to the less difficult "Cid." As Corman shown in discussion, this name change—like Walt Whitman's presumption of Walt over Walter—flagged his beginnings as a writer for the regular man.
Amid this period, Corman was composing productively and distributed in abundance of 500 sonnets in around 100 magazines by 1954. He viewed this as a sort of apprenticeship, and none of these sonnets were ever distributed in book shape.
