A Guide to the Letters from Cid Corman to Peter Hoy, 1969-1972
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Accession Number 10870
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Letters from Cid Corman to Peter Hoy, 1969-1972, Accession # 10870, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
These letters were given to the Library by Peter Hoy, Merton College, Oxford, England, on August 29, 1989.
Scope and Content Information
These six letters from Cid Corman (1924- ), a poet and translator of German and Japanese poets, 1969-1972, to Peter Hoy, were written while Corman was staying at Utano, Japan, and are generally concerned with their common interest in the French poet Francis Ponge (1899- ). Much of their correspondence discusses the appearance of Ponge's work in Origins, a small literary magazine edited by Corman in the 1950's, the reprint of all three series of Origins by the Kraus Reprint Company, and Corman's publication of a selection of his versions of Ponge's poetry in a book entitled Things . Corman also mentions the death of John Berryman (1914-1972) and quotes the dismal view of life of his friend William Bronk (1918- ), January 17, 1972. He also answers Hoy's inquiry concerning the appearance of Ponge in The Monk's Pond edited by Thomas Merton (January 17, 1972).