Cid Corman

Cid Corman, born to Ukrainian parents, grew up in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned a BA at Tufts University in 1945. He studied in the graduate program at the University of Michigan, where he won the Hopwood Award in poetry, but he did not finish his degree. Corman’s numerous books of poetry include For Crying Out Loud (2002), And the Word (1987), In Particular: Poems, New and Selected (1986), At Their Word (1978), Be Longings (1977), and Livingdying (1970). He also edited many notable books, including The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems of Lorine Niedecker (1996), and Word for Word: Essays on the Art of Language (1977). (Source)