Late again!

There’s only
one poem:
this is it.

– Cid Corman

I read this poem in Cid Corman‘s book Nothing Doing a year or two before he died in 2004. For a while, I used it in my email sig file –

Among other things, Cid founded and edited a lit mag called Origin between 1951 and 2003. Now, Longhouse Poetry’s put out ORIGIN, the Sixth Series quartet, a 4-part series, edited by Bob Arnold, Cid’s literary executor.

Each of these 4 parts are 300+ pages long — and since they contain lots of visual poetry and artwork too, each would be pretty expensive if printed in full color. However, Longhouse has made ‘em free for download on the ORIGIN, the Sixth Series quartet website; 3 of the 4 are already up.

Big bonus of PDF journals: You can manipulate the size of the text to suit your fancy. So far I’ve read the second one. Always start in the middle –

Lots of beautiful and funny stuff — including ecology-conscious poetry that talks about everything from trees to nuclear energy (236) to superfund sites and factory farming (241) to the ecology of the poem and fish (253).

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