Nothing doing
By: Cid Corman.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Description: Corman is one of modernism's enduring masters, a poet of prodigious talent and production whose work, both as poet and publisher, is intertwined with the Objectivists Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen, as well as the Black Mountain poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson. Among such modern giants, Corman's verse is perhaps the most refined, refusing the temptation of "effect" for the tactile ink of line and "touch". Nothing/Doing presents a vital poetry of zen koan and cognitive conundrum, but also one of uncompromising wisdom, where Corman can definitively declare: "There's only/one poem: / this is it".
Notes: "A New Directions paperbook original"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.