Sun Rock Man - Softcover

Corman, C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811200248 ISBN 13: 9780811200240

Publisher: New Directions, 1973

Synopsis

Corman, Sun Rock Man. Poems about Matera, Italy

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About the Author

Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century. He lived most of his life in Kyoto, Japan.

From the Back Cover

'For the vast majority of Italians and others to whom the name means anything, Matera is synonymous with abject poverty and backwardness. In fact, being the capital of its province, which occupies the lower and Eastern half of the region known today as La Basilicata, in the highlands inland between the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic, its is relatively affluent in a world where degradation is the rule. I came to this community quite by accident, penniless, and stayed to teach there for a year and a half. What I saw, what I learned, what I felt, my relations to other there and that of earth and air, fire and water, to them and to myself, should be implicit, if not explicit, in these poems.'

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811200248
• ISBN 13: 9780811200240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132