Cid Corman was born Sidney Corman in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1924. He earned a B.A. from Tufts and did graduate work at the Universities of Michigan & North Carolina. Over the course of 50+ years, he served as editor of Origin & published many of the best American poets in that time. He wrote 70 volumes of poetry, four books of essays, several translations of French & Japanese poets & countless unpublished poems. He lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife Shizumi from 1958 to his death in 2004.
For more visit the Wiki on Cid Corman and the Poetry Foundation’s biography, which includes some critical notice.
Books by Cid Corman:
Aegis: Selected Poems 1970-1980
"Aegis" literally means "protection," from the Greek Aigis, the name of the shield of Zeus, said by Herodotus to be related to aix, "goat," as the shield was of goatskin. (Athene's aigis was a short goat-skin cloak, covered with scales, set with a gorgon's head, and fringed with snakes...