Origin (magazine)
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Origin magazine was an American poetry magazine founded in 1951 by Cid Corman, its longstanding editor, and Charles Olson, provided an early platform for the work of Olson, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder and Theodore Enslin, among other poets.[1]
When Corman recruited Olson as a contributing editor when Corman started Origin. Their correspondence was printed in 1969 as Letters For Origin. The collection details "an enormous battle of creative energy".[1]
Origin published Olson's In Cold Hell, In Thicket, as its eighth issue, in 1953 as well as Louis Zukofsky's key work, A 1-12. "The collection, A Gist Of Origin (1979) remains a groundbreaking work", according to Michael Carlson.[1]
Corman edited the magazine for decades, even when he was abroad in France, Italy and Japan.
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- ^ a b c [1] Carlson, Michael, "Cid Corman/ Poet who was behind the literary magazine Origin", obituary in The Guardian, April 15, 2004
