Articles - December 2023

All the meaning life provides

Excerpts from Cid Corman’s notebooks

Scan of the cover of Cid Corman's journal no. 2
Scan of the cover of Cid Corman's journal no. 2

In 2002, the late American Kyoto-based expatriate poet, Cid Corman (1924–2004), gifted Fred Jeremy Seligson, an American poet living in Korea, a collection of his notebooks as a token of his appreciation for the financial support that Seligson had provided to him during some particularly difficult years. These “Uncollected Kyoto Notebooks” span the crucial period from 1960 to 1975.

These excerpts are from The Uncollected Kyoto Notebooks of Cid Corman, Selections: 1960 to 1975. Selections were made by Fred Jeremy Seligson and Gregory Dunne and submitted with the permission of Bob Arnold, Literary Executor for the Estate of Cid Corman. Inquiries concerning Corman can be sent to longhousepoetry@gmail.com and copies of Corman's books are available for purchase at longhousepoetry.com.