"In August
2007, I went to the Lilly Library and had copies
made of what I sent to Cid...out of box 3 I have
archived among Cid's "stuff" about 400 pages...I will take
from the last fourteen, or so, letters, aerogrammes, post cards what
I sent to Cid—sketches,
poems, etc and send for this Cid feature... The Lilly
Library is in/at the University of Indiana and everything is
for public use... The on-line
link to to the collection".
—Ed
Baker
Ed
Baker—rain,
rain cc01a
Ed
Baker—only
wind sounds cc01b
Ed Baker letter
to Cid Corman—12-17-03
02
Ed Baker—I
can think of nothing 03
Ed Baker—And
My Life is... 04
Ed Baker—Stone
Wood And Words 05
Ed
Baker—Post
Card: 01-09-04: Since wen did speling kount? cc06
Ed
Baker—every
where I go cc07
Ed
Baker—So
i said... cc08
Ed
Baker—Loving
is... cc09 cc10
Ed Baker—Full
moon cc11
Ed
Baker—
cc
12 cc12
Ed
Baker—As
Albert Einstein often said... cc13
Ed
Baker—in
the room cc14
Ed Baker—far
beyond frog cc15
"In 1949 Corman created "This is Poetry" a radio program
airing on WMEX in Boston which ran for three years. His next
venture was a poetry magazine, Origin which featured and
sometimes debuted such poets as Robert Creeley, William Bronk,
Denise Levertov, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Olson, and Louis
Zukofsky. Corman later established Origin Press, publishing
some of these same authors as well as his own works. In the
late 1950s he moved to Kyoto, Japan where he found work as a
private teacher of English and poetry. He married Shizumi
Konishi in 1965 and opened C.C.'s, a coffee and dessert shop
that also served as a venue for poetry readings. He lived in
the States several times over the years, but in 1982 moved
permanently to Kyoto where he remained until his death in
March 2004. His published works include over 100 books and
pamphlets of poetry, translations of French, Italian and
Japanese poets, and several volumes of essays.
"The collection is organized into the following series:
I. Correspondents/Authors;
II. Writings;
III. Origin;
IV. Photographs; and,
V. Miscellaneous. Detailed lists of each series are
available.
"The correspondents/authors
series contains chiefly correspondence, but writings by
authors other than Corman are also present. The Writings
series contains Corman's journals and memoirs, poetry, prose,
translations, and worksheets. The series on Origin pertains to
the publication of the magazine. The Photographs series
includes three photographs of Corman taken by poet Allen
Ginsberg, as well as a number of photographs of Corman and his
wife Shizumi. Most of the photographs, however, are snapshots
of friends and colleagues, and a few were taken at Corman's
dessert shop. Among the items in the Miscellaneous series are
hundreds of clippings, reflecting Corman's many interests from
art and astronomy to medicine and the Noh theatre".
The Lilly collection of Corman
materials was purchased. 2005; it contains ca. 102,000 items.
from
Lilly Library Manuscript Collections
