Nothing Doing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811214254)

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 those many giants, Corman's verse is perhaps the most committed to the sublime, 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."

Author: Cid Corman
ISBN-10: 0811214257
ISBN-13: 9780811214254
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2000
Pages: 153
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.20w x 0.42d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2000 pg. 147
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2000 pg. 72